Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

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

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
1997	Helena Bonham Carter	The Wings of the Dove	Kate Croy	[1]
	Sarah Polley	The Sweet Hereafter	Nicole Burnell
1998	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth	Queen Elizabeth I	[2]
	Pascale Bussières	August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)	Simone Prévost
	Christina Ricci	The Opposite of Sex	Dedee Truitt
1999	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena	[3]
	Cecilia Roth	All About My Mother	Manuela Echevarria

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2000	Laura Linney	You Can Count on Me	Samantha "Sammy" Prescott	[4]
	Michelle Yeoh	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Yu Shu Lien
2001	Thora Birch	Ghost World	Enid	[5]
	Gillian Anderson	The House of Mirth	Lily Bart
	Tilda Swinton	The Deep End	Margaret Hall
2002	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Cathy Whitaker	[6]
	Maggie Gyllenhall	Secretary	Lee Holloway
	Isabelle Huppert	The Piano Teacher	Erika Kohut
2003	Samantha Morton	Morvern Callar	Morvern Callar	[7]
2004	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Vera Drake	[8]
2005	Laura Linney	The Squid and the Whale	Joan Berkman	[9]
2006	Helen Mirren	The Queen	Queen Elizabeth II	[10]
	Penélope Cruz	Volver	Raimunda
	Judi Dench	Notes on a Scandal	Barbara Covett
2007	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson	[11]
	Elliot Page [a]	Juno	Juno MacGuff
	Laura Dern	Inland Empire	Nikki Grace / Susan Blue
2008	Michelle Williams	Wendy and Lucy	Wendy	[12]
	Anne Hathaway	Rachel Getting Married	Kym
	Meryl Streep	Doubt	Aloysius Beauvier
2009	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Jenny	[13]
	Arta Dobroshi	Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna)	Lorna
	Meryl Streep	Julie & Julia	Julia Child

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2010	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly	[14]
	Natalie Portman	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
	Michelle Williams	Blue Valentine	Cindy Heller
2011	Michelle Williams	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe	[15]
	Elizabeth Olsen	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha
	Meryl Streep	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
2012	Rachel Weisz	The Deep Blue Sea	Hester Collyer	[16]
	Jessica Chastain	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya
	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	Anne Laurent
2013	Cate Blanchett	Blue Jasmine	Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis	[17]
	Julie Delpy	Before Midnight	Céline Wallace
	Greta Gerwig	Frances Ha	Frances Halliday
2014	Marion Cotillard	The Immigrant	Ewa Cybulska	[18]
	Julianne Moore	Still Alice	Alice Howland
	Reese Witherspoon	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
2015	Nina Hoss	Phoenix	Nelly Lenz	[19]
	Cate Blanchett	Carol	Carol Aird
	Brie Larson	Room	Joy "Ma" Newsome
2016	Sandra Hüller	Toni Erdmann	Ines Conradi	[20]
	Rebecca Hall	Christine	Christine Chubbuck
	Isabelle Huppert	Elle	Michèle Leblanc
	Natalie Portman	Jackie	Jackie Kennedy
2017	Frances McDormand	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Mildred Hayes	[21]
	Sally Hawkins	The Shape of Water	Elisa Esposito
	Saoirse Ronan	Lady Bird	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson
2018	Olivia Colman	The Favourite	Anne, Queen of Great Britain	[22]
	Regina Hall	Support the Girls	Lisa Conroy
	Melissa McCarthy	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee Israel
2019	Lupita Nyong'o	Us	Adelaide Wilson / Red	[23]
	Scarlett Johansson	Marriage Story	Nicole Barber
	Renée Zellweger	Judy	Judy Garland

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2020	Frances McDormand	Nomadland	Fern	[24]
	Viola Davis	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Sidney Flanigan	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Autumn Callahan
2021	Olivia Colman	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso	[25]
	Penélope Cruz	Parallel Mothers	Janis Martinez
	Kristen Stewart	Spencer	Diana, Princess of Wales
2022	Cate Blanchett	Tár	Lydia Tár	[26]
	Danielle Deadwyler	Till	Mamie Till
	Michelle Yeoh	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Quan Wang

Notes

1. Credited as Ellen Page

References

1. Liam Lacey, "Egoyan film top pick". The Globe and Mail , January 15, 1998.
2. "War movies are the big winners". Hamilton Spectator , December 18, 1998.
3. "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.
4. Peter Howell, "Toronto critics like Lee ; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon named top movie". Toronto Star , December 21, 2000.
5. "Memento named best picture". Calgary Herald , December 20, 2001.
6. "Toronto critics pick Adaptation as top film". Ottawa Citizen , December 20, 2022.
7. "Coppola's Lost in Translation honoured by Toronto critics". Waterloo Region Record , December 18, 2003.
8. "Sideways named best film of 2004 by Toronto critics". Sault Star , December 17, 2004.
9. "Cronenberg's History of Violence tops T.O. critics' best-of list". Sudbury Star , December 22, 2005.
10. Lee-Anne Goodman, "'The Queen' named best picture by Toronto's film critics". Canadian Press, December 20, 2006.
11. Bruce Kirkland, "Old Men No. 1; Coen Brothers flick tops T.O. film critics' 2007 list". Toronto Sun , December 19, 2007.
12. Chris Knight, "Toronto critics pick Wendy and Lucy". Windsor Star , December 17, 2008.
13. "Basterds, Hunger top Toronto critics' picks". Waterloo Region Record , December 17, 2009.
14. Peter Knegt, "“Social Network” Tops San Francisco and Toronto Film Critics’ Awards". IndieWire , December 14, 2010.
15. Brian D. Johnson, "Toronto critics name 'Tree of Life' Best Picture". Maclean's , December 14, 2011.
16. Cassandra Szklarski, "'The Master' rules with Toronto film critics, named best film, screenplay". Canadian Press, December 18, 2012.
17. "Toronto Film Critics Association awards for 2013". Toronto Star , December 17, 2013.
18. Norman Wilner, "Toronto film critics champion Boyhood". Now , December 16, 2014.
19. Jeremy Kay, "Toronto critics honour 'Carol'". Screen Daily , December 14, 2015.
20. Norman Wilner, "Toronto critics bask in the Moonlight". Now , December 12, 2016.
21. Jim Slotek, "Toronto film critics give best picture thumbs up to The Florida Project". Original Cin, December 10, 2017.
22. Corey Atad, "Toronto Film Critics Association Names ‘Roma’ Best Picture Of 2018". ET Canada , December 10, 2018.
23. Radheyan Simonpillai, "Toronto Film Critics Association names Parasite the year’s best movie". Now , December 9, 2019.
24. Etan Vlessing, "Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by Toronto Film Critics Association". The Hollywood Reporter , February 7, 2021.
25. Sarah Curran, "Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Lost Daughter’ Wins Big At Toronto Film Critics Association Awards". ET Canada , January 16, 2022.
26. Pat Mullen, "Toronto Film Critics Name All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Top Doc". Point of View , January 8, 2023.

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners