13:03 PST 7/7/2021
by
Etan Vlessing
Riz Ahmed and Frances McDormand were among the acting prize winners on Sunday.
The Toronto Film Critics Association named Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland as the best picture of 2020, while the American road movie continued its run as an early contender for the season.
On Sunday, Zhao honored the best director for Nomadland, which also earned Frances McDormand the best actress trophy for her role in the film, while Riz Ahmed won the Best Actor award for his performance in Sound of Metal.
Elsewhere in the scene, Daniel Kaluuya was named Best Supporting Actor for his role as Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in Warner Bros. ‘ Judas and the Black Messiah, while Maria Bakalova won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Borat subsequent Moviefilm, with Sacha Baron Cohen.
Wolfwalkers, the latest installment in Tomm Moore’s Irish folklore trilogy aired on AppleTV +, has been hailed by Toronto critics as the best animated feature, and Bacurau, the neo-Western folktale of director Kleber Mendonca Filho, was named best foreign language film.
Other winners include Black bodies short film director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall as best emerging artist; Alexander Nanau’s Collective, a movie about corruption in the hospital in the aftermath of a nightclub fire, named Best Documentary of 2020; Radha Blank’s The 40-year-old version, with Lena Waithe as producer, who won best first film; and the best screenplay for Lee Isaac Chung’s drama Minari.
Toronto critics tweeted the winners and runners-up directly via their official #TFCAawards Twitter account. This year’s vote on the pandemic period included theatrical and streaming movies that would air on March 31, 2021.