Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature is one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2001	Sexy Beast	Jonathan Glazer	^[1]
	Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
2002	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Zacharias Kunuk	^[2]
	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	George Clooney
	Igby Goes Down	Burr Steers
2003	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini	^[3]
2004	Maria Full of Grace	Joshua Marston	^[4]
2005	Capote	Bennett Miller	^[5]
2006	Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman	^[6]
	Brick	Rian Johnson
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
2007	Away from Her	Sarah Polley	^[7]
	Gone Baby Gone	Ben Affleck
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
2008	Ballast	Lance Hammer	^[8]
	The Band's Visit	Eran Kolirin
	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt
2009	Hunger	Steve McQueen	^[9]
	500 Days of Summer	Marc Webb
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2010	Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy	^[10]
	Get Low	Aaron Schneider
	Monsters	Gareth Edwards
2011	Attack the Block	Joe Cornish	^[11]
	Margin Call	J. C. Chandor
	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Sean Durkin
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin	^[12]
	Beyond the Black Rainbow	Panos Cosmatos
	The Cabin in the Woods	Drew Goddard
2013	Neighboring Sounds	Kleber Mendonça Filho	^[13]
	Fruitvale Station	Ryan Coogler
	In a World...	Lake Bell
2014	The Lunchbox	Ritesh Batra	^[14]
	John Wick	Chad Stahelski
	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy
2015	Ex Machina	Alex Garland	^[15]
	Sleeping Giant	Andrew Cividino
	Son of Saul	László Nemes
2016	The Witch	Robert Eggers	^[16]
	The Edge of Seventeen	Kelly Fremon Craig
	Swiss Army Man	Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
2017	Get Out	Jordan Peele	^[17]
	Lady Macbeth	William Oldroyd
	Werewolf	Ashley McKenzie
2018	Sorry to Bother You	Boots Riley	^[18]
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	Hereditary	Ari Aster
2019	Booksmart	Olivia Wilde	^[19]
	Atlantics	Mati Diop
	Queen & Slim	Melina Matsoukas

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref
2020	The Forty-Year-Old Version	Radha Blank	^[20]
	The Father	Florian Zeller
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
2021	The Lost Daughter	Maggie Gyllenhall	^[21]
	Passing	Rebecca Hall
	Pig	Michael Sarnoski
	Shiva Baby	Emma Seligman
2022	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells	^[22]
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
	Turning Red	Domee Shi
2023	Rye Lane	Raine Allen-Miller	^[23]
	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson
	Past Lives	Celine Song
2024	Woman of the Hour	Anna Kendrick	^[24]
	40 Acres	R. T. Thorne
	Janet Planet	Annie Baker
	The People's Joker	Vera Drew

Winners