Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film


The Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film is an annual juried film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film judged to be the best Canadian feature film. As of 2017, the award is sponsored by the Canada Goose clothing company, and known as the "Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film".
As with TIFF's other juried awards, the jury has the discretion to name one or more honorable mentions in addition to the overall winner, but are normally expected to name a single winner. On only one occasion to date, in 1997, were two full winners of the award named in the same year.

Winners

Films whose titles are highlighted in yellow were the winners of the award; non-highlighted films were given honorable mentions.
YearFilmDirectorACCT honoursReference
1984A Woman in Transit Léa PoolBest Picture nominee
1985Donald Brittain
1986The Decline of the American Empire Denys ArcandBest Picture winner
1986Sitting in LimboJohn N. Smith-
1987Family ViewingAtom EgoyanBest Picture nominee
1987'Kay Armatage
1988The Outside Chance of Maximilian GlickAllan A. GoldsteinBest Picture nominee
1989RoadkillBruce McDonald
1990HDarrell Wasyk
1991The AdjusterAtom Egoyan
1991The Grocer's WifeJohn Pozer-
1992Requiem for a Handsome Bastard Robert MorinBest Picture nominee
1992LéoloJean-Claude LauzonBest Picture nominee
1992Manufacturing ConsentMark Achbar and Peter Wintonick
1993Alanis ObomsawinBest Documentary nominee
1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn GouldFrançois GirardBest Picture winner
1993Zero PatienceJohn Greyson
1994ExoticaAtom EgoyanBest Picture winner
1994Double HappinessMina ShumBest Picture nominee
1994WindigoRobert Morin
1995Live BaitBruce Sweeney
1995Curtis's CharmJohn L'Ecuyer
1995RudeClement VirgoBest Picture nominee
1996Long Day's Journey into NightDavid WellingtonBest Picture nominee
1996KissedLynne Stopkewich
1997The Hanging GardenThom FitzgeraldBest Picture nominee
1997The Sweet HereafterAtom EgoyanBest Picture winner
1998NôRobert Lepage
1999The Five SensesJeremy PodeswaBest Picture nominee
1999Set Me Free Léa Pool
2000waydowntownGary Burns
2000MaelströmDenis VilleneuveBest Picture winner
2001Zacharias KunukBest Picture winner
2002SpiderDavid Cronenberg
2003The Barbarian Invasions Denys ArcandBest Picture winner
2004It's All Gone Pete TongMichael DowseBest Picture nominee
2004Scared SacredVelcrow RipperBest Documentary winner
2005C.R.A.Z.Y.Jean-Marc ValléeBest Picture winner
2006Manufactured LandscapesJennifer BaichwalBest Documentary winner
2006Monkey WarfareReginald Harkema
2007My WinnipegGuy MaddinBest Documentary nominee
2008Lost SongRodrigue Jean
2008AdorationAtom Egoyan
2009Cairo TimeRuba Nadda
2009The Legacy Bernard Émond
2010IncendiesDenis VilleneuveBest Picture winner
2011Monsieur LazharPhilippe FalardeauBest Picture winner
2012Laurence AnywaysXavier DolanBest Picture nominee
2013When Jews Were FunnyAlan Zweig
2014Felix and Meira Maxime GirouxBest Picture nominee
2015Closet MonsterStephen Dunn
2015My Internship in Canada Philippe FalardeauBest Picture nominee
2016Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves Mathieu Denis and Simon LavoieBest Picture nominee
2017Ravenous Robin AubertBest Picture nominee
2017The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches Simon LavoieBest Picture nominee
2018The Fireflies Are Gone Sébastien Pilote
2019AntigoneSophie Deraspe'Best Picture nominee
2019The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open''Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen HepburnBest Picture nominee