# 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.

## Winners
### 2000s

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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

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