Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lead Performance

Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lead Performance
The 2025 recipients: Rose Byrne (left) and Ethan Hawke (right)
Awarded for	Outstanding Performance by an Actor or an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	Canada
Presented by	Toronto Film Critics Association
Currently held by	Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (2025)
Website	torontofilmcritics.com

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Outstanding Lead Performance is one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association. It was presented for the first time in 2023, following the merger of the formerly individual awards of Best Actor and Best Actress. ^[1]

Winners and runners-up

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref.
2023	Lily Gladstone	Killers of the Flower Moon	Mollie Burkhart	[2]
	Sandra Hüller	Anatomy of a Fall	Sandra Voyter
	Paul Giamatti	The Holdovers	Paul Hunham
	Andrew Scott	All of Us Strangers	Adam
	Emma Stone	Poor Things	Bella Baxter
	Kôji Yakusho	Perfect Days	Hirayama
2024	Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Hard Truths	Pansey	[3]
	Mikey Madison	Anora	Anora "Ani" Mikheeva
	Adrien Brody	The Brutalist	László Tóth
	Colman Domingo	Sing Sing	John "Divine G" Whitfield
	Ralph Fiennes	Conclave	Thomas Cardinal Lawrence
	Karla Sofía Gascón	Emilia Pérez	Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte
	Demi Moore	The Substance	Elisabeth Sparkle
2025	Rose Byrne	If I Had Legs I'd Kick You	Linda	[4]
	Ethan Hawke	Blue Moon	Lorenz Hart
	Jessie Buckley	Hamnet	Agnes Shakespeare
	Leonardo DiCaprio	One Battle After Another	Bob Ferguson
	Michael B. Jordan	Sinners	The Smokestack Twins
	Wagner Moura	The Secret Agent	Armando

References

1. Christie, Brendan (December 18, 2023). "TFCA Unveils 2023 Canadian Film Nominees in Split Categories". Playback . Retrieved December 28, 2023.
2. "'The Zone of Interest' Leads TFCA Awards Winners". Toronto Film Critics Association. December 17, 2023. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
3. Neglia, Matt (December 15, 2024). "The 2024 Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
4. Matt Neglia, "The 2025 Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture, December 7, 2025.

External links

• Toronto Film Critics Association – Past Award Winners