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.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

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.^[4]

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Take One to select the year's best Canadian films; upon the launch of the TFCA, this poll was discontinued and superseded by the TFCA's annual awards.

1995

Category	Winners and nominees	Ref
Best Film	Rude — Damon D'Oliveira, Karen King	[5]
	Double Happiness — Steve Hegyes, Rose Lam Waddell	[6]
	When Night Is Falling — Barbara Tranter
	Louis 19, King of the Airwaves (Louis 19, le roi des ondes) — Richard Sadler, Jacques Dorfmann
Best Director	Clement Virgo, Rude	[5]
	Mina Shum, Double Happiness	[6]
	Charles Binamé, Eldorado
	Patricia Rozema, When Night Is Falling
Best Actor	Maury Chaykin, Whale Music	[5]
	Clark Johnson, Rude	[6]
	Maurice Dean Wint, Rude
	Peter Williams, Soul Survivor
Best Actress	Sandra Oh, Double Happiness	[5]
	Pascale Montpetit, Eldorado	[6]
	Pascale Bussières, Eldorado
	Tracy Wright, Wasaga
Best Screenplay	Mina Shum, Double Happiness	[5]
	Clement Virgo, Rude	[6]
	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

1996

Category	Winners and nominees	Ref
Best Film	Hard Core Logo	[7]
	Crash
	Long Day's Journey into Night
	The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	Margaret's Museum
	Curtis's Charm
	Lilies
	Once in a Blue Moon
	The Suburbanators
	Screamers
Best Director	Robert Lepage, The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	Bruce McDonald, Hard Core Logo
	David Cronenberg, Crash
	David Wellington, Long Day's Journey into Night
	Mort Ransen, Margaret's Museum
	John L'Ecuyer, Curtis's Charm
	John Greyson, Lilies
	Gary Burns, The Suburbanators
	Christian Duguay, Screamers
	Peter Mettler, Picture of Light
Best Actor	William Hutt, Long Day's Journey into Night
	Callum Keith Rennie, Hard Core Logo
	Hugh Dillon, Hard Core Logo
	Lothaire Bluteau, The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	Maurice Dean Wint, Curtis's Charm
	Tom McCamus, Long Day's Journey into Night
	Brent Carver, Lilies
	Elias Koteas, Crash
	James Spader, Crash
	Clive Russell, Margaret's Museum
Best Actress	Martha Henry, Long Day's Journey into Night
	Helena Bonham Carter, Margaret's Museum
	Kate Nelligan, Margaret's Museum
	Martha Burns, Long Day's Journey into Night
	Deborah Kara Unger, Crash
	Mary Beth Rubens, The Michelle Apartments
	Deanna Milligan, Once in a Blue Moon
	Tushka Bergen, Turning April
	Kristin Scott Thomas, The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	Holly Hunter, Crash
Best Screenplay	Noel S. Baker, Hard Core Logo
	Robert Lepage, The Confessional (Le Confessionnal)
	Gerald Wexler, Mort Ransen, Margaret's Museum
	Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
	David Cronenberg, Crash
	John L'Ecuyer, Curtis's Charm
	Michel Marc Bouchard, Lilies
	Gary Burns, The Suburbanators
	Laurie Lynd and Daniel MacIvor, House
	Dan O'Bannon and Miguel Tejada-Flores, Screamers
Best Documentary	Picture of Light — Peter Mettler
	Project Grizzly — Peter Lynch
	Baseball Girls — Lois Siegel
	Power — Magnus Isacsson

Toronto Film Critics Association

1990s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
1997	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	[8]
	The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald
1998	Last Night	Don McKellar	[9]
	Nô	Robert Lepage
	The Red Violin	François Girard
1999	Set Me Free	Léa Pool	[10]
	Felicia's Journey	Atom Egoyan

2000s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
2000	waydowntown	Gary Burns	[11]
	Maelström	Denis Villeneuve
2001	Last Wedding	Bruce Sweeney	[12]
	Ginger Snaps	John Fawcett
	The Uncles	James Allodi
2002	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk	[13]
	FUBAR	Michael Dowse
	Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête)	André Turpin
2003	Spider	David Cronenberg	[14]
2004	The Triplets of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet	[15]
2005	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg	[16]
2006	Manufactured Landscapes	Jennifer Baichwal	[17]
	The Journals of Knud Rasmussen	Zacharias Kunuk
	Monkey Warfare	Reginald Harkema
	Six Figures	David Christensen
2007	Away from Her	Sarah Polley	[18]
	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
	Radiant City	Gary Burns, Jim Brown
2008	My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin	[19]
	Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)	Stéphane Lafleur	[20]
	Up the Yangtze	Yung Chang
2009	Polytechnique	Denis Villeneuve	[21]
	The Necessities of Life (Ce qu'il faut pour vivre)	Benoît Pilon	[22]
	Pontypool	Bruce McDonald

2010s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
2010	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve	[23]
	Splice	Vincenzo Natali	[24]
	Trigger	Bruce McDonald
2011	Monsieur Lazhar	Philippe Falardeau	[25]
	Café de Flore	Jean-Marc Vallée	[26]
	A Dangerous Method	David Cronenberg
2012	Stories We Tell	Sarah Polley	[27]
	Bestiaire	Denis Côté	[28]
	Goon	Michael Dowse
2013	Watermark	Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky	[29]
	The Dirties	Matt Johnson	[30]
	Gabrielle	Louise Archambault
2014	Enemy	Denis Villeneuve	[31]
	The F Word	Michael Dowse	[32]
	Mommy	Xavier Dolan
2015	The Forbidden Room	Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson	[33]
	My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)	Philippe Falardeau	[34]
	Sleeping Giant	Andrew Cividino
2016	The Stairs	Hugh Gibson	[35]
	How Heavy This Hammer	Kazik Radwanski	[36]
	Operation Avalanche	Matt Johnson
2017	Werewolf	Ashley McKenzie	[37]
	Hello Destroyer	Kevan Funk	[38]
	Wexford Plaza	Joyce Wong
2018	Anthropocene: The Human Epoch	Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky	[39]
	Ava	Sadaf Foroughi	[40]
	Maison du Bonheur	Sofia Bohdanowicz
2019	The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open	Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers	[41]
	Antigone	Sophie Deraspe	[42]
	Firecrackers	Jasmin Mozaffari

2020s

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
2020	Anne at 13,000 Ft.	Kazik Radwanski	[43]
	And the Birds Rained Down	Louise Archambault	[44]
	White Lie	Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas
2021	Beans	Tracey Deer	[45]
	Night Raiders	Danis Goulet	[46]
	Scarborough	Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson
2022	Riceboy Sleeps	Anthony Shim	[47]
	Brother	Clement Virgo	[48]
	Crimes of the Future	David Cronenberg
2023	BlackBerry	Matt Johnson	[49]
	Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant)	Ariane Louis-Seize	[4]
	Solo	Sophie Dupuis
2024	Universal Language	Matthew Rankin	[50]
	Rumours	Guy Maddin	[51]
	Shepherds	Sophie Deraspe

Best Canadian Documentary

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
2023	Swan Song	Chelsea McMullan	[49]
	Rojek	Zaynê Akyol
	Someone Lives Here	Zack Russell
2024	Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story	Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee	[50]
	Yintah	Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell, Michael Toledano	[51]
	Your Tomorrow	Ali Weinstein