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Toronto film critics are ride-or-die for Nomadland
The TFCA also named And The Birds Rained Down, Anne At 13,000 Ft. and White Lie finalists for this year s Best Canadian Film Award By Norman Wilner
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A lone woman in a white panel van has driven off with this year’s Toronto Film Critics Association awards.
The TFCA named Nomadland – which stars Frances McDormand as a widow who becomes part of a community that moves around the American southwest chasing seasonal employment – the best picture of 2020. Chloé Zhao also won best director, while McDormand was named best actress.
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Nomadland, a film described by the TFCA as a socially evocative film about a community of the RV homeless, took home the awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Chloé Zhao, and Best Actress for Frances McDormand when the winners were announced Sunday. Chloé Zhao s sublime road movie, Nomadland, brilliantly speaks to our shared 21st-century examination of our life journeys, which is why we made it our most celebrated film this year with three prizes, said Peter Howell, TFCA president and gala executive producer, in a statement.
The TFCA announced the winners of the 24th annual awards via Twitter Sunday, and will hold a virtual gala live on YouTube on March 9.
The virtual gala will announce the winner of the Rogers $100,000 Best Canadian Film Award from a field of three finalists.
The finalists are Louise Archambault s And the Birds Rained Down, Anne at 13,000 Ft. by Kazik Radwanski,and White Lie by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas.
Runners-up will each receive $5,000.
Eligible contenders for this year s TFCA awards include films that were released in theatres or streamed in Toronto in 2020, as well as films that qualify for the 2020 Academy Awards and have a Toronto release scheduled by the end of March 2021.