Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012

The 16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were given on December 18, 2012.

16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 18, 2012 (2012-12-18), Gala February 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)
Site	Round Room at The Carlu

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.

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