Toronto critics hail Boyhood

The Toronto Film Critics Association has awarded three of its top prizes to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. It won best picture, best director and best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette.

The awards were voted by the TFCA at a meeting on the afternoon of December 14. The group announced the three finalists for the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award: Enemy, directed by Denis Villeneuve; The F Word, directed by Michael Dowse; and Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan.

The 2014 Joe Fresh Allan King Documentary Award goes to The Overnighters; whose director Jesse Moss will receive a $5,000 cash prize.

Albert Shin, director of the South Korean domestic drama In Her Place, was named the winner of the Scotiabank Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist. He also receives $5,000.

As previously reportted, the 2014 recipient of the Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award is Piers Handling who will present a filmmaker of his choice with $50,000 worth of services from Technicolor at the January 6 gala.

“In an exceptional year for Canadian cinema, we’ve chosen three boldly directed films that are so dissimilar it’s almost hard to believe they’re set in the same country,” said TFCA President Brian D. Johnson. “Enemy’s austere psychodrama portrays Toronto as a smog-lined tomb of condos and concrete, while The F Word makes the city a bright, airy playground for an agile romantic comedy. And in Mommy a drama of mental illness and parental anguish rips through a household in working-class Montreal.”

The full list of Toronto Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up: for 2014:

BEST PICTURE

“Boyhood” (Mongrel Media)

Runners-up

            “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

            “Inherent Vice” (Warner Bros.)

BEST ACTOR

            Tom Hardy, “Locke”

Runners-up

            Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

            Jake Gyllenhaal, “Nightcrawler”

BEST ACTRESS

             Marion Cotillard, “The Immigrant”

Runners-up

             Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”

            Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

             J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”

Runners-up

             Josh Brolin, “Inherent Vice”

             Edward Norton, “Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

 Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

Runners-up

             Tilda Swinton, “Snowpiercer”

             Katherine Waterston, “Inherent Vice”

BEST DIRECTOR

             Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”

Runners-up

             Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice”

             Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

BEST SCREENPLAY

 “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, screenplay by Wes Anderson

            from a story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness

Runners-up

             “Boyhood”, written by Richard Linklater

             “Inherent Vice”, screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson

                        based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon

BEST FIRST FEATURE

             “The Lunchbox”, directed by Ritesh Batra

Runners-up

              “John Wick”, directed by Chad Stahelski

              “Nightcrawler”, directed by Dan Gilroy

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

             “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” (GKids)

Runners-up

             “Big Hero 6” (Walt Disney Studios)

             “How to Train Your Dragon 2” (20^th Century Fox)

             “The Lego Movie” (Warner Bros.)

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

             “Force Majeure” (Films We Like)

Runners-up

             “Ida” (Films We Like)

             “Leviathan” (Mongrel Media)

JOE FRESH ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY AWARD

            “The Overnighters” (Films We Like)           

Runners-up

             “Citizenfour” (Entertainment One)

             “Manakamana” (Films We Like)

ROGERS BEST CANADIAN FILM AWARD FINALISTS

 “Enemy”, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Entertainment One)

“The F Word”, directed by Michael Dowse (Entertainment One)

“Mommy”, directed by Xavier Dolan (Entertainment One)