Tantoo Cardinal presents the @Rogers Best Canadian Film Award to...RICEBOY SLEEPS, directed by Anthony Shim! The award carries a prize of $100,000 courtesy of Rogers. @gametheoryfilms #tfcaawards pic.twitter.com/UNFiHQCKXu
— Toronto Film Critics (@TFCA) March 7, 2023
Brother and Riceboy Sleeps were the 2 Canadian films of 2022 that would likely excel in awards from people who really know films. We don't know if Brother came in second to Riceboy Sleeps at the 2022 Windsor International Film Festival or the 2023 Toronto Film Critics Association gala, but we think that is a good educated guess.
Riceboy Sleeps directed by Anthony Shim won the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award last night and the $100,000 prize that goes with the award. The film also won the 2022 WIFF Prize in Canadian Film with a $25,000 prize in November.
Brother from Clement Virgo and Crimes of the Future from David Cronenberg were the other finalists for the TFCA award.
Riceboy Sleeps won the Platform Prize at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival; Best Canadian Film at the 2022 Vancouver International Film Festival; and the Jean-Marc Vallée DGC Discovery Award from the Directors Guild of Canada.
2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominations: Film
Riceboy Sleeps is up for 6 Canadian Screen Awards in April: Best Motion Picture; Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing (Anthony Shim); Choi Seung-yoon for Best Lead Performance in a Film; and Christopher Lew for Best Cinematography.
Brother led the way with 14 Canadian Screen Award nominations while Crimes of the Future had 11 nominations.
2022 WIFF Canadian films in review
2022 Windsor International Film Festival preview
Riceboy Sleeps and Brother do not have U.S. deals. Crimes of the Future is streaming on Hulu.
Your humble narrator has seen all of the finalists with Riceboy Sleeps and Brother playing at the 2022 Windsor International Film Festival.
Riceboy Sleeps wins the 2022 WIFF Prize in Canadian Film
Congratulations to all! We’re excited to be bringing back RICEBOY SLEEPS, screening March 21-23.
— WIFF (@WindsorFilmFest) February 22, 2023
Get tickets: https://t.co/XP3JGr2cZs https://t.co/ir3RalIcR8
If you are in the Detroit/Windsor area, you can view the film at the Windsor International Film Festival at the Capitol Theatre later this month.
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We have seen every finalist and winner from the last 5 ceremonies. The last finalist that we have not seen is Maison du Bonheur (2018)
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Beans won the 2021 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
Anne at 13,000 Ft. wins 2020 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
We have consciously and unconsciously tried to catch up some of the films on this list in the past year. Those films we've seen in that time are The Stairs Hugh Gibson (2016), The Triplets of Belleville Sylvain Chomet (2004), and Set Me Free Léa Pool (1999).
A pair of David Cronenberg films — Spider (2003) and A History of Violence (2005) — are the only winners we haven't seen yet.
Here are the previous winners:
2022 Riceboy Sleeps Anthony Shim
2021 Beans Tracey Deer
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 except for 2003 and 2005.
Twitter capture and photo credit: @TFCA
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