# Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Prizes

The Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Prizes, currently known as the FIPRESCI Prizes, are film awards presented by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) to films screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

## History

First presented in 1982 as the CFTO International Critics' Prize, the award was voted by all media attending the festival, and could be presented annually to one film, two films or one film with an honorable mention. In 1992, FIPRESCI launched an award at the festival to honour the best film by a first-time director, as selected by an appointed jury of eight international film critics, while the original International Critics' Prize was renamed the Metro Media Award, and continued to be voted on by all accredited media who were not on the FIPRESCI jury.
The Metro Media Award was discontinued after 1998, and replaced with the Discovery Award, which continued to be voted on by all accredited media. In 2008, the awards were modified to present two FIPRESCI awards, one each for films in the festival's Discovery and Special Presentations streams; a media-voted Discovery award was still presented that year alongside the FIPRESCI Discovery award, but was discontinued thereafter.
Since 2020, only a single FIPRESCI Prize winner has been named each year.

## Winners
### International Critics' Prize

| Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 1982 | The Taste of Water (De smaak van water) | Orlow Seunke |
| 1983 | The Fourth Man | Paul Verhoeven |
| 1984 | Choose Me | Alan Rudolph |
| 1985 | My American Cousin | Sandy Wilson |
| 1985 | No Surrender | Alan Bleasdale |
| 1986 | Man Facing Southeast | Eliseo Subiela |
| 1987 | Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) | Jean-Claude Lauzon |
| 1988 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies |
| 1989 | Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) | Denys Arcand |
| 1990 | An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion |
| 1991 | My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant |

### Metro Media Award

| Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 1992 | Man Bites Dog | Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel |
| 1993 | Naked | Mike Leigh |
| 1994 | Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson |
| 1995 | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol |
| 1996 | Shine | Scott Hicks |
| 1997 | Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson |
| 1998 | Happiness | Todd Solondz |

### Discovery Award

| Year | Film | Director(s) |
| 1999 | Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish | Kevin Jordan |
| 2000 | George Washington | David Gordon Green |
| 2000 | 101 Reykjavík | Baltasar Kormákur |
| 2001 | Chicken Rice War | Chee Kong Cheah |
| 2002 | The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan |
| 2003 | Rhinoceros Eyes | Aaron Woodley |
| 2004 | Omagh | Pete Travis |
| 2005 | Look Both Ways | Sarah Watt |
| 2006 | Reprise | Joachim Trier |
| 2007 | Cochochi | Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán |
| 2008 | Hunger | Steve McQueen |

### FIPRESCI Prize

| Year | Film | Director(s) | Category |
| 1992 | Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | Winner |
| 1993 | Strapped | Forest Whitaker | Winner |
| 1994 | The Silences of the Palace | Moufida Tlatli | Winner |
| 1994 | Fate (Verhängnis) | Fred Kelemen | Honorable mention |
| 1995 | Desolation Angels | Tim McCann | Winner |
| 1995 | Eggs | Bent Hamer | Winner |
| 1996 | Life | Lawrence Johnston | Winner |
| 1996 | The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola | Honorable mention |
| 1997 | Under the Skin | Carine Adler | Winner |
| 1998 | West Beirut | Ziad Doueiri | Winner |
| 1998 | Praise | John Curran | Winner |
| 1999 | Shower | Zhang Yang | Winner |
| 2000 | Bangkok Dangerous | Pang Fat & Oxide Pang Chun | Winner |
| 2001 | Inch'Allah Dimanche | Yamina Benguigui | Winner |
| 2001 | Be My Star (Mein Stern) | Valeska Grisebach | Honorable mention |
| 2001 | Khaled | Asghar Massombagi | Honorable mention |
| 2002 | Under Another Sky (Les chemins de l'oued) | Gaël Morel | Winner |
| 2002 | Open Hearts | Susanne Bier | Honorable mention |
| 2003 | Noviembre | Achero Mañas | Winner |
| 2004 | In My Father's Den | Brad McGann | Winner |
| 2005 | Sa-kwa | Kang Yi-kwan | Winner |
| 2006 | Death of a President | Gabriel Range | Winner |
| 2007 | La Zona | Rodrigo Plá | Winner |
| 2008 | Disgrace | Steve Jacobs | Special Presentations |
| 2008 | Lymelife | Derick Martini | Discovery |
| 2009 | Hadewijch | Bruno Dumont | Special Presentations |
| 2009 | The Man Beyond the Bridge | Laxmikant Shetgaonkar | Discovery |
| 2010 | L'Amour Fou | Pierre Thoretton | Special Presentations |
| 2010 | Beautiful Boy | Shawn Ku | Discovery |
| 2011 | The First Man | Gianni Amelio | Special Presentations |
| 2011 | Avalon | Axel Petersén | Discovery |
| 2012 | In the House | François Ozon | Special Presentations |
| 2012 | Call Girl | Mikael Marcimain | Discovery |
| 2013 | Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Special Presentations |
| 2013 | The Amazing Catfish | Claudia Sainte-Luce | Discovery |
| 2014 | Time Out of Mind | Oren Moverman | Special Presentations |
| 2014 | May Allah Bless France! | Abd al Malik | Discovery |
| 2015 | Desierto | Jonás Cuarón | Special Presentations |
| 2015 | Eva Nová | Marko Skop | Discovery |
| 2016 | I Am Not Madame Bovary | Feng Xiaogang | Special Presentations |
| 2016 | Kati Kati | Mbithi Masya | Discovery |
| 2017 | The Motive | Manuel Martín Cuenca | Special Presentations |
| 2017 | Ava | Sadaf Foroughi | Discovery |
| 2018 | Skin | Guy Nattiv | Special Presentations, Winner |
| 2018 | A Faithful Man | Louis Garrel | Special Presentations, Honorable Mention |
| 2018 | Float Like a Butterfly | Carmel Winters | Discovery, Winner |
| 2018 | Twin Flower | Laura Luchetti | Discovery, Honorable Mention |
| 2019 | How to Build a Girl | Coky Giedroyc | Special Presentations |
| 2019 | Murmur | Heather Young | Discovery |
| 2020 | Beginning (Dasatskisi) | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Winner |
| 2021 | Anatolian Leopard (Anadolu Leoparı) | Emre Kayiş | Winner |
| 2022 | A Gaza Weekend | Basil Khalil | Winner |
| 2023 | Seagrass | Meredith Hama-Brown | Winner |
| 2024 | Mother Mother | K'naan Warsame | Winner |