title: Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012
text: # 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
  
  * Best Actor:
     * Denis Lavant – Holy Motors
  
  Runners-Up: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln and Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
  
  * Best Actress:
     * Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea
  
  Runners-Up: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty and Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
  
  * Best Animated Film:
     * ParaNorman
  
  Runners-Up: Brave and Frankenweenie
  
  * Best Director:
     * Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
  
  Runners-Up: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty and Leos Carax – Holy Motors
  
  * Best Documentary Film:
     * Stories We Tell
  
  Runners-Up: The Queen of Versailles and Searching for Sugar Man
  
  * Best Film:
     * The Master
  
  Runners-Up: Amour and Zero Dark Thirty
  
  * Best First Feature (tie):
     * Beasts of the Southern Wild
     * Beyond the Black Rainbow
  
  Runner-Up: The Cabin in the Woods
  
  * Best Foreign Language Film:
     * Amour • Austria/France/Germany
  
  Runners-Up: Holy Motors • France/Germany and Tabu • Portugal
  
  * Best Screenplay:
     * The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
  
  Runners-Up: Lincoln – Tony Kushner and Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
  
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
  
  Runners-Up: Javier Bardem – Skyfall and Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
  
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Gina Gershon – Killer Joe
  
  Runners-Up: Amy Adams – The Master, Ann Dowd – Compliance and Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
  
  * Rogers Canadian Film Award:
     * Sarah Polley - Stories We Tell.
  
  Runners-Up: Denis Côté - Bestiaire, Michael Dowse -Goon
  
  