title: Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2011
text: # Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2011
  
  15th TFCA Awards
  
  December 14, 2011
  
  Best Film:
  
  The Tree of Life
  
  The 15th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2011, were given on December 14, 2011.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Actor:
     * Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
  
  Runners-Up: George Clooney – The Descendants and Michael Fassbender – Shame
  
  * Best Actress:
     * Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
  
  Runners-Up: Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene and Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
  
  * Best Animated Film:
     * The Adventures of Tintin
  
  Runners-Up: Puss in Boots and Rango
  
  * Best Director:
     * Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
  
  Runners-Up: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist and Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
  
  * Best Documentary Film:
     * Nostalgia for the Light
  
  Runners-Up: Into the Abyss and Project Nim
  
  * Best Film:
     * The Tree of Life
  
  Runners-Up: The Artist and The Descendants
  
  * Best First Feature:
     * Attack the Block
  
  Runners-Up: Margin Call and Martha Marcy May Marlene
  
  * Best Foreign Language Film:
     * Mysteries of Lisbon • Portugal
  
  Runners-Up: Attenberg • Greece, Le Havre • Finland and A Separation • Iran
  
  * Best Screenplay:
     * Moneyball – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
  
  Runners-Up: The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash and The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
  
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Christopher Plummer – Beginners
  
  Runners-Up: Albert Brooks – Drive and Patton Oswalt – Young Adult
  
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter
  
  Runners-Up: Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life and Shailene Woodley – The Descendants
  
  * Rogers Canadian Film Award:
     * Monsieur Lazhar
  
  Runners-Up: Café de Flore and A Dangerous Method
  
  