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Toronto Film Critic Association Awards Announced
Celebrating the best of 2011 in film
It’s that time of year, film fans. The time when we look back and reminisce about all those hours spent in dark rooms with strangers, eating stale food and wondering what’s stuck to the bottom of our feet. But hey, sometimes what’s projecting on the silver screen is so good we forget about all these bodily discomforts and, yes you guessed it, we just get swept away.
Adding their voice to the 2011 awards circuit the Toronto Film Critic Association announced their winners for this season today, with Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter garnering top nods.
In a press release on the TFCA’s choices, the association’s president and film critic at Maclean’s, Brian D. Johnson said: “With both Tree of Life and Take Shelter, our members chose to honour ambitious films that took bold risks.”
We couldn’t agree more. Here’s to the year that was and looking forward to 2012.
The full list of winners…
- Best Picture: The Tree of Life
- Best Director: Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
- Best Actor: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
- Best Actress: Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
- Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
- Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter (Chastain was also a runner-up in the Supporting Actress category for The Tree of Life.
- Best Screenplay: Moneyball; Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, story by Stan Chervin, based on the non-fiction book by Michael Lewis
- Best Foreign-Language Film: Mysteries of Lisbon
- Best Documentary Feature: Nostalgia for the Light
- Best First Feature: Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
- Best Animated Feature: The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)