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

Winners[edit]

1990s[edit]

Year Winner Film Ref
1999 Charlie Kaufman Being John Malkovich [1]
Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia
Alan Ball American Beauty

2000s[edit]

Year Winner Film Ref
2000 Kenneth Lonergan You Can Count on Me [2]
Hirokazu Kore-eda After Life
2001 Christopher Nolan Memento [3]
Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson The Royal Tenenbaums
Terry Zwigoff, Daniel Clowes Ghost World
2002 Charlie Kaufman Adaptation. [4]
Paul Thomas Anderson Punch-Drunk Love
David Hare The Hours
2003 Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation [5]
Denys Arcand The Barbarian Invasions
2004 Charlie Kaufman Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [6]
2005 Noah Baumbach The Squid and the Whale [7]
2006 Peter Morgan The Queen [8]
Guillermo Arriaga Babel
William Monahan The Departed
2007 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men [9]
Diablo Cody Juno
Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton
2008 Jenny Lumet Rachel Getting Married [10]
Peter Morgan Frost/Nixon
John Patrick Shanley Doubt
2009 Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds [11]
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner Up in the Air
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen A Serious Man

2010s[edit]

Year Winner Film Ref
2010 Aaron Sorkin The Social Network [12]
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen True Grit
David Seidler The King's Speech
2011 Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin Moneyball [13]
Terrence Malick The Tree of Life
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash The Descendants
2012 Paul Thomas Anderson The Master [14]
Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty
Tony Kushner Lincoln
2013 Spike Jonze Her [15]
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy Before Midnight
2014 Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel [16]
Paul Thomas Anderson Inherent Vice
Richard Linklater Boyhood
2015 Adam McKay, Charles Randolph The Big Short [17]
Charlie Kaufman Anomalisa
Phyllis Nagy Carol
Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy Spotlight
2016 Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea [18]
Maren Ade Toni Erdmann
Barry Jenkins Moonlight
2017 Jordan Peele Get Out [19]
Greta Gerwig Lady Bird
Martin McDonagh Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara The Favourite [20]
Paul Schrader First Reformed
Alfonso Cuarón Roma
2019 Steven Zaillian The Irishman [21]
Noah Baumbach Marriage Story
Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Parasite

2020s[edit]

Year Winner Film Ref
2020 Lee Isaac Chung Minari [22]
Darius Marder, Abraham Marder Sound of Metal
Chloé Zhao Nomadland
2021 Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe Drive My Car [23]
Paul Thomas Anderson Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion The Power of the Dog
2022 Martin McDonagh The Banshees of Inisherin [24]
Todd Field Tár
Sarah Polley Women Talking

Original Screenplay[edit]

Year Winner Film Ref
2023 Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Barbie [25]
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari Anatomy of a Fall
Celine Song Past Lives

Adapted Screenplay[edit]

Year Winner Film Ref
2023 Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese Killers of the Flower Moon [25]
Andrew Haigh All of Us Strangers
Tony McNamara Poor Things

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Toronto critics pick Magnolia as best film of 1999 Yet-unreleased second picture from director of Boogie Nights follows linked stories of characters in San Fernando Valley". The Globe and Mail, December 17, 1999.
  2. ^ Peter Howell, "Toronto critics like Lee ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon named top movie". Toronto Star, December 21, 2000.
  3. ^ "Memento named best picture". Calgary Herald, December 20, 2001.
  4. ^ "Toronto critics pick Adaptation as top film". Ottawa Citizen, December 20, 2022.
  5. ^ "Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record, December 18, 2003.
  6. ^ "Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star, December 17, 2004.
  7. ^ "Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star, December 22, 2005.
  8. ^ Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
  9. ^ Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun, December 19, 2007.
  10. ^ Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star, December 17, 2008.
  11. ^ "Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record, December 17, 2009.
  12. ^ Peter Knegt, "“Social Network” Tops San Francisco and Toronto Film Critics’ Awards". IndieWire, December 14, 2010.
  13. ^ Brian D. Johnson, "Toronto critics name 'Tree of Life' Best Picture". Maclean's, December 14, 2011.
  14. ^ Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
  15. ^ "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star, December 17, 2013.
  16. ^ Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now, December 16, 2014.
  17. ^ Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily, December 14, 2015.
  18. ^ Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now, December 12, 2016.
  19. ^ Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
  20. ^ Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada, December 10, 2018.
  21. ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now, December 9, 2019.
  22. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2021.
  23. ^ Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada, January 16, 2022.
  24. ^ Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View, January 8, 2023.
  25. ^ a b Erik Anderson, "Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Awards: ‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture, Director". AwardsWatch, December 17, 2023.

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