‘Drive My Car’ tops for T.O. critics
Toronto film critics have chosen “Drive My Car,” a Japanese movie about the relationship between a widowed theatre director and his female driver, as the best picture of 2021.
The movie by Ryusuke Hamaguchi also won awards for Best International Film and Best Screenplay from the Toronto Film Critics Association.
The other triple winner was
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut, “The Lost Daughter,” which took Best First Feature, Best Actress for Olivia Colman and Best Supporting Actress for
Jessie Buckley.
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” and Paul Thomas An- derson’s “Licorice Pizza” were runners-up for Best Picture. “Dog” also took Best Director for Campion, but its much ac- claimed star, Benedict Cumberbatch, ceded the Best Actor award to Denzel Washington for Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” while Bradley Coo- per took Best Supporting Actor for “Licorice Pizza.”
The critics gave the Allan King Documentary Film Award to “Summer of Soul” by Ahmir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson and Best Animated Feature to “Flee” by Jonas Poher Rasmus- sen.
Still to be announced in March is the winner of the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The finalists are “Beans” by Tracey Deer, “Night Raiders” by Danis Goulet, and “Scarborough” by Shasha Nak- hai and Rich Williamson. Also to be announced are the recipi- ents of Company 3 Clyde Gil- mour Award and the Stella Ar- tois Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist.