# Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Film

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Film is one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

## Winners
### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan |
| 1997 | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1997 | The Ice Storm | Ang Lee |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson |
| 1997 | Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg |
| 1998 | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur |
| 1998 | Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| 1998 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh |
| 1999 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) | Ang Lee |
| 2000 | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2001 | Memento | Christopher Nolan |
| 2001 | Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 2001 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Spike Jonze |
| 2002 | Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2002 | Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne |
| 2005 | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg |
| 2006 | The Queen | Stephen Frears |
| 2006 | The Departed | Martin Scorsese |
| 2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg |
| 2007 | Zodiac | David Fincher |
| 2008 | Wendy and Lucy | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan Demme |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton |
| 2009 | Hunger | Steve McQueen |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2010 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne |
| 2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2012 | Amour | Michael Haneke |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2015 | Carol | Todd Haynes |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2016 | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade |
| 2017 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker |
| 2017 | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2018 | Burning | Lee Chang-dong |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | First Cow | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2021 | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2022 | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley |
| 2023 | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer |
| 2023 | All of Us Strangers | Andrew Haigh |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese |
| 2024 | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross |
| 2024 | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2024 | The Brutalist | Brady Corbet |