Toronto Film Critics Association names Rummel Roth’s narrative debut nickel boy As the best movie of 2024, it further enhances the film’s popularity during the awards season.
In Sunday’s vote, Toronto critics also gave Roth, who also co-wrote, the best director award for the drama about the friendship between two young African-American men in a Jim Crow-era reform school in Florida. Jocelyn Barnes shared the award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Best Picture runner-up is Sean Baker’s Anora and Brady Corbett’s fauvism. nickel boyAdapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, premiering at Telluride and starring Ethan Herries, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs , starring Anjanu Ellis-Taylor.
In the acting category, the best starring crown went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her performance in Mike Leigh’s film. cruel truth and McGee Madison Anora. The Best Supporting Actor award was shared between Yura Borisov Anora and Kieran Culkin of Jesse Eisenberg. real pain.
Additionally, Toronto critics awarded Clarence Maclin the Breakthrough Performance Award for his role in Singwhile Felix-Antoine Duvall won Best Performance by an Actor for his role in a Canadian film shepherd.
Elsewhere, the award for Best Original Screenplay went to Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai drama Everything we imagine is light, This also earned Best International Feature recognition. The Best Animated Feature Award went to director Gints Zilbalodis flow, And Mati Diop’s dahomey Named the best documentary of 2024.
The best first prize was awarded to Today’s women, Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut.
