The winner of the @Rogers Best Canadian Film Award is...@BeansTheFilm, directed by @traceydeer! @MereVuchnich accepts the award. #tfcaawards
— Toronto Film Critics (@TFCA) March 8, 2022
Beans from Tracey Deer has won the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award as given out by the Toronto Film Critics Association earlier this evening. The film beat out Danis Goulet's Night Raiders and Scarborough by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson.
The award also carries a $100,000 cash prize, the richest film award in Canada. The runners-up will each receive $5,000. The association gave out awards at the 25th TFCA Awards Gala in Toronto.
Beans won Best Picture at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards and won the John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award. The film was second runner up for the People's Choice Award at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
Night Raiders and Scarborough were at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
The TFCA reported that all 3 films will be screening on National Canadian Film Day on April 20.
Beans will be available on Crave in Canada on March 18 and is currently on Hulu in the United States.
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Your humble narrator has seen 2 of the 3 nominees. Scarborough has played in Canada and should make its way to the United States at some point. Then again, Beans had a very long trip before being available south of the 49th parallel.
Scarborough was the first runner-up for the People's Choice Award, won the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award, and received honourable mention for Best Canadian Feature Film at TIFF 2021.
Anne at 13,000 Ft. wins 2020 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
Your humble narrator saw the top 3 finalists for the 2020 version of the award. 2 of those films — And the Birds Rained Down from Louise Archambault and White Lie from Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis — played at the 2019 Windsor International Film Festival. Had to track down Anne at 13,000ft, directed by Kazik Radwanski, at a film festival available online.
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Here are the previous winners:
2020 Anne at 13,000 Ft. Kazik Radwanski
2019 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
2018 Anthropocene Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier
2017 Werewolf Ashley McKenzie
2016 The Stairs Hugh Gibson
2015 The Forbidden Room Guy Maddin
2014 Enemy Denis Villeneuve
2013 Watermark Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky
2012 Stories We Tell Sarah Polley
2011 Monsieur Lazhar Philippe Falardeau
2010 Incendies Denis Villeneuve
2009 Polytechnique Denis Villeneuve
2008 My Winnipeg Guy Maddin
2007 Away From Her Sarah Polley
2006 Manufactured Landscapes Jennifer Baichwal
2005 A History of Violence David Cronenberg
2004 The Triplets of Belleville Sylvain Chomet
2003 Spider David Cronenberg
2002 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Zacharias Kunuk
2001 The Last Wedding Bruce Sweeney
2000 waydowntown Gary Burns
1999 Set Me Free Léa Pool
1998 Last Night Don McKellar
1997 The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan
I have seen the winners from 1997-1998, 2000-2002, 2006-2015, and 2017-2020.
Twitter capture and photo credit: @TFCA
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