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Drive My Car is Toronto Film Critics Association's Best Film of 2021


Park Yoo Rim, Sonia Yuan, Yoo-Rim Park, Drive My Car, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Toronto Film Critics Association, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Park Yoo Rim and Sonia Yuan in Drive My Car

It's yet more success for Drive My Car, Hamaguchi Ryusuke's mega-hit with the critics this season as it wins another prestigious critics' prize. The Toronto Film Critics Association names it their Best Film of 2021 among three awards total for the Japanese drama, while finding one award each for its two runners-up, Licorice Pizza and The Power of the Dog. Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut The Lost Daughter also wins three, including acting awards for Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley. Check it all out below.


Best Film

DRIVE MY CAR

Runners-up LICORICE PIZZA

THE POWER OF THE DOG


Best Director

Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Runners-up Hamaguchi Ryusuke (DRIVE MY CAR)

Denis Villeneuve (DUNE)


Best Actress

Olivia Colman (THE LOST DAUGHTER)

Runners-up Penelope Cruz (PARALLEL MOTHERS)

Kristen Stewart (SPENCER)


Best Actor

Denzel Washington (THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH)

Runners-up Benedict Cumberbatch (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Andrew Garfield (TICK, TICK...BOOM!)


Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley (THE LOST DAUGHTER)

Runners-up Kirsten Dunst (THE POWER OF THE DOG)

Ruth Negga (PASSING)


Best Supporting Actor

Bradley Cooper (LICORICE PIZZA)

Runners-up Ciaran Hinds (BELFAST)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (THE POWER OF THE DOG)


Best Screenplay

DRIVE MY CAR

Runners-up LICORICE PIZZA

THE POWER OF THE DOG


Best Animated Feature

FLEE

Runners-up ENCANTO

THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES


Best Documentary

SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)

Runners-up FLEE

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND


Best Foreign Language Film

DRIVE MY CAR

Runners-up PETITE MAMAN

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD


Best First Feature

THE LOST DAUGHTER

Runners-up PASSING

PIG

SHIVA BABY

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