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TFCA ‘08 Awards Montage

This 3:50 min. montage celebrates the nominees and winners of the 2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards. The montage was shown at the TFCA Awards dinner on Jan. 6, 2009. It was produced by TFCA President Brian D. Johnson with the support of Citytv. Please forgive the occasionally distorted aspect ratios.

My Winnipeg

My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin’s hallucinatory black-and-white love letter to his Manitoba hometown, was crowned the first winner of the TFCA’s new Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award at last night’s gala awards dinner.

Wendy and Lucy

A girl and her dog, a broken-down gladiator and a fractured American family were the big winners at the 2008 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association, it was announced today. Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy, starring Michelle Williams as a young woman whose life is turned upside-down when her car dies in Oregon, was named the year’s Best Picture.

The ballots have been counted, the live vote has been held, and the press release is being written: The Toronto Film Critics Association will announce the winners of its 2008 awards on Wednesday, December 17th.

Full details will be posted here at 12:01 am EST. Isn’t awards season exciting?

No Country for Old Men

Toronto film critics have chosen the crime thriller “No Country for Old Men” as the best film of 2007 while Sarah Polley’s “Away from Her” was named best Canadian film and its star, Julie Christie, tied for best actress of the year with Halifax’s Ellen Page.

Angela BaldassarreAngela Baldassarre — film critic, founding member of the Toronto Film Critics Association, wife, mother and a very good friend — passed away November 15th, 2007. I am writing this appreciation for her colleagues in FIPRESCI because, were it not for Angie, I wouldn’t know any of you. Angie brought the Toronto critics into the organization, placing us on film-festival juries around the world and helping our fairly insular group make new connections and new friends.

queen.jpgStephen Frears’ royal drama The Queen has been named Best Picture for 2006 by the Toronto Film Critics Association. It beat out other nominees The Departed and United 93 for the honour.

The Toronto Film Critics Association today announced its nominees for the TFCA’s 2006 awards. Awards will be announced on Wednesday, December 20th.

A complete list of the TFCA 2006 Nominees follows:

BEST PICTURE
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“The Queen” (Alliance Atlantis)
“United 93″ (Universal Pictures)

awardBest Picture
“A History of Violence” (Alliance Atlantis)

Best Performance, Male
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Capote”

Best Performance, Female
Laura Linney, “The Squid and the Whale”

Best Supporting Performance, Male
Paul Giamatti, “Cinderella Man”

Best Supporting Performance, Female
Catherine Keener, “Capote”

Best Director
David Cronenberg, “A History of Violence”

“Sideways” has been named the Best Film of 2004 by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

“Sideways” also won two other awards from the TFCA, a group of 29 journalists which represents the four major Toronto dailies, several weeklies, various magazines and a variety of electronic media. Paul Giamatti was named Best Actor and Virginia Madsen won Best Supporting Performance for their roles in “Sideways”.

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