Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012

The 16th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2012, were given on December 18, 2012.

Through a naming rights sponsorship with Rogers the Best Canadian Film Award prize money was raised to C$100,000 from $15,000 in 2010 and $10,000 prior to that, while the two runners-up took $5,000 each. It is now the largest film prize in Canada.

Winners
Runners-Up: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln and Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
 * Best Actor:
 * Denis Lavant – Holy Motors

Runners-Up: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty and Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
 * Best Actress:
 * Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

Runners-Up: Brave and Frankenweenie
 * Best Animated Film:
 * ParaNorman

Runners-Up: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty and Leos Carax – Holy Motors
 * Best Director:
 * Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master

Runners-Up: The Queen of Versailles and Searching for Sugar Man
 * Best Documentary Film:
 * Stories We Tell

Runners-Up: Amour and Zero Dark Thirty
 * Best Film:
 * The Master

Runner-Up: The Cabin in the Woods
 * Best First Feature (tie):
 * Beasts of the Southern Wild
 * Beyond the Black Rainbow

Runners-Up: Holy Motors • France/Germany and Tabu • Portugal
 * Best Foreign Language Film:
 * Amour • Austria/France/Germany

Runners-Up: Lincoln – Tony Kushner and Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
 * Best Screenplay:
 * The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson

Runners-Up: Javier Bardem – Skyfall and Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
 * Best Supporting Actor:
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master

Runners-Up: Amy Adams – The Master, Ann Dowd – Compliance and Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
 * Best Supporting Actress:
 * Gina Gershon – Killer Joe

Runners-Up: Denis Côté - Bestiaire, Michael Dowse -Goon
 * Rogers Canadian Film Award:
 * Sarah Polley - Stories We Tell.