# Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film

The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film is an annual juried film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film judged to be the best Canadian feature film.
As with TIFF's other juried awards, the jury has the discretion to name one or more honorable mentions in addition to the overall winner, but are normally expected to name a single winner. On only one occasion to date, in 1997, were two full winners of the award named in the same year.
From 2020 to 2022, the award was presented as one of three Amplify Voices awards rather than as a standalone category. The Amplify Voices awards were presented to three films overall, with one award open to all feature films made by Canadian directors and designated as the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Film, while the other two awards are open to any feature films, regardless of nationality, directed by BIPOC filmmakers; however, all three awards are selected and presented by the same jury. In 2023, this ceased and the award reverted to being presented separately from the Amplify Voices awards, although the same jury remained in charge of presenting both awards.
In 2024, concurrently with the reintroduction of the Best Canadian Discovery Award, TIFF announced a slight change to the award rules, whereby it will now only be open to films which are their filmmakers' third or later titles, while first or second films will be eligible only for the Discovery award.

## Winners

Films whose titles are highlighted in yellow were the winners of the award; non-highlighted films were given honorable mentions.
| Year | Film | Director | ACCT honours |
| 1984 | A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) | Léa Pool | Best Picture nominee (6th Genie Awards) |
| 1985 | Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks | Donald Brittain | |
| 1986 | The Decline of the American Empire (Le déclin de l'empire américain) | Denys Arcand | Best Picture winner (8th Genie Awards) |
| 1986 | Sitting in Limbo | John N. Smith | |
| 1987 | Family Viewing | Atom Egoyan | Best Picture nominee (9th Genie Awards) |
| 1987 | Artist on Fire | Kay Armatage | |
| 1988 | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick | Allan A. Goldstein | Best Picture nominee (10th Genie Awards) |
| 1989 | Roadkill | Bruce McDonald | |
| 1990 | H | Darrell Wasyk | |
| 1991 | The Adjuster | Atom Egoyan | |
| 1991 | The Grocer's Wife | John Pozer | Claude Jutra Award winner (14th Genie Awards) |
| 1992 | Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur) | Robert Morin | Best Picture nominee (13th Genie Awards) |
| 1992 | Léolo | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Best Picture nominee (13th Genie Awards) |
| 1992 | Manufacturing Consent | Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick | |
| 1993 | Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance | Alanis Obomsawin | Best Documentary nominee (15th Genie Awards) |
| 1993 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | François Girard | Best Picture winner (14th Genie Awards) |
| 1993 | Zero Patience | John Greyson | |
| 1994 | Exotica | Atom Egoyan | Best Picture winner (15th Genie Awards) |
| 1994 | Double Happiness | Mina Shum | Best Picture nominee (15th Genie Awards) |
| 1994 | Windigo | Robert Morin | |
| 1995 | Live Bait | Bruce Sweeney | |
| 1995 | Curtis's Charm | John L'Ecuyer | |
| 1995 | Rude | Clement Virgo | Best Picture nominee (16th Genie Awards) |
| 1996 | Long Day's Journey into Night | David Wellington | Best Picture nominee (17th Genie Awards) |
| Kissed | Lynne Stopkewich | | |
| 1997 | The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald | Best Picture nominee (18th Genie Awards) |
| 1997 | The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | Best Picture winner (18th Genie Awards) |
| 1998 | Nô | Robert Lepage | |
| 1999 | The Five Senses | Jeremy Podeswa | Best Picture nominee (20th Genie Awards) |
| 1999 | Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) | Léa Pool | |
| 2000 | waydowntown | Gary Burns | |
| 2000 | Maelström | Denis Villeneuve | Best Picture winner (21st Genie Awards) |
| 2001 | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Zacharias Kunuk | Best Picture winner (22nd Genie Awards) |
| 2002 | Spider | David Cronenberg | |
| 2003 | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) | Denys Arcand | Best Picture winner (24th Genie Awards) |
| 2004 | It's All Gone Pete Tong | Michael Dowse | Best Picture nominee (25th Genie Awards) |
| 2004 | Scared Sacred | Velcrow Ripper | Best Documentary winner (26th Genie Awards) |
| 2005 | C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée | Best Picture winner (26th Genie Awards) |
| 2006 | Manufactured Landscapes | Jennifer Baichwal | Best Documentary winner (27th Genie Awards) |
| 2006 | Monkey Warfare | Reginald Harkema | |
| 2007 | My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | Best Documentary nominee (29th Genie Awards) |
| 2008 | Lost Song | Rodrigue Jean | |
| 2008 | Adoration | Atom Egoyan | |
| 2009 | Cairo Time | Ruba Nadda | |
| 2009 | The Legacy (La Donation) | Bernard Émond | |
| 2010 | Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | Best Picture winner (31st Genie Awards) |
| 2011 | Monsieur Lazhar | Philippe Falardeau | Best Picture winner (32nd Genie Awards) |
| 2012 | Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | Best Picture nominee (1st Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2013 | When Jews Were Funny | Alan Zweig | |
| 2014 | Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira) | Maxime Giroux | Best Picture nominee (3rd Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2015 | Closet Monster | Stephen Dunn | |
| 2015 | My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre) | Philippe Falardeau | Best Picture nominee (4th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2016 | Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) | Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie | Best Picture nominee (5th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2017 | Ravenous (Les Affamés) | Robin Aubert | Best Picture nominee (6th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2017 | The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) | Simon Lavoie | Best Picture nominee (6th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2018 | The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) | Sébastien Pilote | |
| 2019 | Antigone | Sophie Deraspe | Best Picture winner (8th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2019 | The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn | Best Picture nominee (8th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2020 | Inconvenient Indian | Michelle Latimer | |
| 2020 | Fauna | Nicolás Pereda | |
| 2021 | Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | |
| 2021 | Scarborough | Shasha Nakhai, Rich Williamson | Best Picture winner (10th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2022 | To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja | Best Documentary winner (11th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2022 | Viking | Stéphane Lafleur | Best Picture nominee (11th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2023 | Solo | Sophie Dupuis | Best Picture nominee (12th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2023 | Kanaval | Henri Pardo | John Dunning Best First Feature nominee (12th Canadian Screen Awards) |
| 2024 | Shepherds (Berger) | Sophie Deraspe | |