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.https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Sarah+Polley+Stories+Tell+wins+Toronto+film/7795803/story.html
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
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