Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012
# Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012

The 16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were given on December 18, 2012.

Through a naming rights sponsorship with Rogers the Best Canadian Film Award prize money was raised to C$100,000 from $15,000 in 2010 and $10,000 prior to that, while the two runners-up took $5,000 each. It is now the largest film prize in Canada.

## Winners

* Best Actor:
   * Denis Lavant – Holy Motors

Runners-Up: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln and Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

* Best Actress:
   * Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

Runners-Up: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty and Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

* Best Animated Film:
   * ParaNorman

Runners-Up: Brave and Frankenweenie

* Best Director:
   * Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master

Runners-Up: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty and Leos Carax – Holy Motors

* Best Documentary Film:
   * Stories We Tell

Runners-Up: The Queen of Versailles and Searching for Sugar Man

* Best Film:
   * The Master

Runners-Up: Amour and Zero Dark Thirty

* Best First Feature (tie):
   * Beasts of the Southern Wild
   * Beyond the Black Rainbow

Runner-Up: The Cabin in the Woods

* Best Foreign Language Film:
   * Amour • Austria/France/Germany

Runners-Up: Holy Motors • France/Germany and Tabu • Portugal

* Best Screenplay:
   * The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson

Runners-Up: Lincoln – Tony Kushner and Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

* Best Supporting Actor:
   * Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Runners-Up: Javier Bardem – Skyfall and Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

* Best Supporting Actress:
   * Gina Gershon – Killer Joe

Runners-Up: Amy Adams – The Master, Ann Dowd – Compliance and Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

* Rogers Canadian Film Award:
   * Sarah Polley - Stories We Tell.

Runners-Up: Denis Côté - Bestiaire, Michael Dowse -Goon

