Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
The Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is presented annually by the Toronto Film Critics Association to the film judged by the organization's members as the year's best Canadian film.{{cite web|url=http://torontofilmcritics.com/awards/signature-award-2-2/|title=Rogers Best Canadian Film Award|publisher=Toronto Film Critics Association|accessdate=13 December 2015|archive-date=3 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503085458/http://torontofilmcritics.com/awards/signature-award-2-2/|url-status=live}} In 2012, the cash prize accompanying the award was increased to $100,000, making it the largest arts award in Canada. Each year, two runners-up also receive $5,000. The award is funded and presented by Rogers Communications, which is a founding sponsor of the association's awards gala.{{cite web|url=http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/2012/11/rogers-best-canadian-film-award-rises.html|title=Rogers Best Canadian Film Award rises to $100,000|date=27 November 2012|publisher=Toronto Film Critics Association|accessdate=4 February 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140204153513/http://www.torontofilmcritics.com/2012/11/rogers-best-canadian-film-award-rises.html|archivedate=4 February 2014}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sarah-polley-doc-wins-toronto-critics-100k-prize-1.1414635|title=Sarah Polley doc wins Toronto critics' $100K prize|date=8 January 2013|publisher=CBC News|access-date=11 January 2013|archive-date=8 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308112648/http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/01/08/tfca-best-canadian-film.html|url-status=live}}
In 2023, the TFCA announced changes to the award. Instead of a single $100,000 prize presented to a mixed shortlist of narrative and documentary films, the organization will now present two $50,000 prizes, one for narrative features and one for documentaries.Erik Anderson, [https://awardswatch.com/toronto-film-critics-association-tfca-awards-the-zone-of-interest-wins-best-picture-director/ "Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217223531/https://awardswatch.com/toronto-film-critics-association-tfca-awards-the-zone-of-interest-wins-best-picture-director/ |date=2023-12-17 }}. AwardsWatch, December 17, 2023.
Unlike the other Toronto Film Critics Association awards, whose winners are announced in mid-December or early January each year, the Best Canadian Film award only has its finalists announced at that time, and the winner of the award is then announced at the organization's gala in March.
Toronto Film Critics Poll
Prior to the official launch of the Toronto Film Critics Association in 1997, film critic Wyndham Wise coordinated two polls of Torontonian film critics in 1995 and 1996 through his magazine Take One to select the year's best Canadian films; upon the launch of the TFCA, this poll was discontinued and superseded by the TFCA's annual awards.
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rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1997 | style="background:#FAEB86;" | The Sweet Hereafter | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Atom Egoyan | rowspan=2| Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail, January 15, 1998. |
The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald | ||
rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|1998 | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Last Night | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Don McKellar | rowspan=3| "War movies are the big winners". Hamilton Spectator, December 18, 1998. |
Nô | Robert Lepage | ||
The Red Violin | François Girard | ||
rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1999 | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Set Me Free | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Léa Pool | rowspan=2| "Toronto critics pick Magnolia as best film of 1999 Yet-unreleased second picture from director of Boogie Nights follows linked stories of characters in San Fernando Valley". The Globe and Mail, December 17, 1999. |
Felicia's Journey | Atom Egoyan |
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Best Canadian Documentary
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style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3" |2023 | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Swan Song | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Chelsea McMullan | rowspan="3" | |
Rojek | Zaynê Akyol | ||
Someone Lives Here | Zack Russell | ||
style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3" |2024 | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee | |
Yintah | Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano | rowspan=2| | |
Your Tomorrow | Ali Weinstein |
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