Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ wins top prizes from Toronto Film Critics Association
Posted December 15, 2014 9:00 pm.
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TORONTO – Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age epic “Boyhood” has won three top prizes from the Toronto Film Critics Association, including best picture.
In addition, director Richard Linklater won best director and Golden Globe nominee Patricia Arquette won best supporting actress.
In other categories, Marion Cotillard won best actress for “The Immigrant,” Tom Hardy took best actor for “Locke,” J.K. Simmons was named best supporting actor for his spirited performance in “Whiplash,” and Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” won best screenplay.
The association also named three nominees for the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.
Xavier Dolan’s critical favourite “Mommy” will compete against Denis Villeneuve’s surreal “Enemy” and Michael Dowse’s romantic comedy “The F Word.”
The awards will be presented at a gala dinner at Toronto’s Carlu in Jan. 6.
Meanwhile, Isao Takahata’s fable “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” won best animated feature and Ritesh Batra’s “The Lunchbox” was named best first feature.
The Joe Fresh Allan King Documentary Award went to director Jesse Moss’s “The Overnighters,” while “In Her Place” director Albert Shin was named winner of the Scotiabank Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist.
