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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. 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.

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.

Unlike the other Toronto Film Critics Association awards, whose winners are announced in mid-December 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.

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magazine Take One to select the year's best Canadian films; upon the launch of the TFCA, this poll was discontinued and superseded by the TFCA's annual awards.

CategoryWinners and nomineesRef
Best FilmRude — Damon D'Oliveira, Karen King
Double Happiness — Steve Hegyes, Rose Lam Waddell
When Night Is Falling — Barbara Tranter
Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes) — Richard Sadler, Jacques Dorfmann
Best DirectorClement Virgo, Rude
Mina Shum, Double Happiness
Charles Binamé, Eldorado
Patricia Rozema, When Night Is Falling
Best ActorMaury Chaykin, Whale Music
Clark Johnson, Rude
Maurice Dean Wint, Rude
Peter Williams, Soul Survivor
Best ActressSandra Oh, Double Happiness
Pascale Montpetit, Eldorado
Pascale Bussières, Eldorado
Tracy Wright, Wasaga
Best ScreenplayMina Shum, Double Happiness
Clement Virgo, Rude
Émile Gaudreault, Sylvie Bouchard and Michel Michaud, Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes)
Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar and John Frizzell, Dance Me Outside
YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
1997The Sweet HereafterAtom Egoyan
The Hanging GardenThom Fitzgerald
1998Last NightDon McKellar
Robert Lepage
The Red ViolinFrançois Girard
1999Set Me FreeLéa Pool
Felicia's JourneyAtom Egoyan
YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
2000waydowntownGary Burns
MaelströmDenis Villeneuve
2001Last WeddingBruce Sweeney
Ginger SnapsJohn Fawcett
The UnclesJames Allodi
2002Atanarjuat: The Fast RunnerZacharias Kunuk
FUBARMichael Dowse
Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)André Turpin
2003SpiderDavid Cronenberg
2004The Triplets of BellevilleSylvain Chomet
2005A History of ViolenceDavid Cronenberg
2006Manufactured LandscapesJennifer Baichwal
The Journals of Knud RasmussenZacharias Kunuk
Monkey WarfareReginald Harkema
Six FiguresDavid Christensen
2007Away from HerSarah Polley
Eastern PromisesDavid Cronenberg
Radiant CityGary Burns, Jim Brown
2008My WinnipegGuy Maddin
Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)Stéphane Lafleur
Up the YangtzeYung Chang
2009PolytechniqueDenis Villeneuve
The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)Benoît Pilon
PontypoolBruce McDonald
YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
2010IncendiesDenis Villeneuve
SpliceVincenzo Natali
TriggerBruce McDonald
2011Monsieur LazharPhilippe Falardeau
Café de FloreJean-Marc Vallée
A Dangerous MethodDavid Cronenberg
2012Stories We TellSarah Polley
BestiaireDenis Côté
GoonMichael Dowse
2013WatermarkJennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
The DirtiesMatt Johnson
GabrielleLouise Archambault
2014EnemyDenis Villeneuve
The F WordMichael Dowse
MommyXavier Dolan
2015The Forbidden RoomGuy Maddin, Evan Johnson
My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)Philippe Falardeau
Sleeping GiantAndrew Cividino
2016The StairsHugh Gibson
How Heavy This HammerKazik Radwanski
Operation AvalancheMatt Johnson
2017WerewolfAshley McKenzie
Hello DestroyerKevan Funk
Wexford PlazaJoyce Wong
2018Anthropocene: The Human EpochJennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
AvaSadaf Foroughi
Maison du BonheurSofia Bohdanowicz
2019The Body Remembers When the World Broke OpenKathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
AntigoneSophie Deraspe
FirecrackersJasmin Mozaffari
YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
2020Anne at 13,000 Ft.Kazik Radwanski
And the Birds Rained DownLouise Archambault
White LieYonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
2021BeansTracey Deer
Night RaidersDanis Goulet
ScarboroughShasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
2022Riceboy SleepsAnthony Shim
BrotherClement Virgo
Crimes of the FutureDavid Cronenberg
2023BlackBerryMatt Johnson
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)Ariane Louis-Seize
SoloSophie Dupuis
2024Universal LanguageMatthew Rankin
RumoursGuy Maddin
ShepherdsSophie Deraspe
2025Blue HeronSophy Romvari
Nirvanna the Band the Show the MovieMatt Johnson
The ShroudsDavid Cronenberg
YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
2023Swan SongChelsea McMullan
RojekZaynê Akyol
Someone Lives HereZack Russell
2024Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane StoryMichael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
YintahJennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano
Your TomorrowAli Weinstein
2025Endless CookieSeth Scriver, Peter Scriver
Ghosts of the Sea (Les enfants du large)Virginia Tangvald
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (Qui a tué les Expos de Montréal?)Jean-François Poisson
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