A late-year rally may not be enough to save The Master, but Toronto went for the film in a big way, recognizing it for four awards while giving Denis Lavant and Gina Gershon their first awards of the season and giving Emmanuelle Riva another notch on her belt.

Award Tallies

(4) The Master

The Awards

Best Picture

The Master
(RU: Amour, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Animated Feature

ParaNorman
(RU: Brave, Frankenweenie)

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
(RU: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty, Leos Carax – Holy Motors)

Best Actor

Denis Lavant – Holy Motors
(RU: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln, Joaquin Phoenix – The Master)

Best Actress

Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea
(RU: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty, Emmanuelle Riva – Amour)

Best Supporting Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
(RU: Javier Bardem – Skyfall, Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln)

Best Supporting Actress

Gina Gershon – Killer Joe
(RU: Amy Adams – The Master, Ann Dowd – Compliance, Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables)

Best Screenplay

The Master
(RU: Lincoln, Team of Rivals, Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Amour
(RU: Holy Motors, Tabu)

Best Documentary

Stories We Tell
(RU: The Queen of Versailles, Searching for Sugar Man)

Best First Feature

TIE:
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beyond the Black Rainbow
(RU: The Cabin in the Woods)

Best Canadian Film Finalists

Bestiaire
Goon
Stories We Tell

Toronto Film Critics Association Data

First Awards: 1997 (16)