Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), held every September since 1976, is one of the world's most important film festivals. It has no competition jury; its top prize is the audience-voted People's Choice Award.

Winners of the Toronto International Film Festival (Canada), year by year. Names link to the film or person page when they are on Sinekatalog. Compiled from Wikidata.

Best Film

Best Film

49 years listed (1978–2026); some years may be missing from the source data.

Year	Film	Director / winner
2026	La bola negra	Javier Calvo Javier Ambrossi
2025	Hamnet	Chloé Zhao
2024	The Life of Chuck	Mike Flanagan
2023	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson
2022	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
2021	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
2019	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi
2018	Green Book	Peter Farrelly
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2016	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
2015	Room	Lenny Abrahamson
2014	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
2013	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
2011	Where Do We Go Now?	Nadine Labaki
2010	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
2009	Precious	Lee Daniels
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
2007	Eastern Promises	David Cronenberg
2006	Bella	Alejandro Gómez Monteverde
2005	Tsotsi	Gavin Hood
2004	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George
2003	Zatoichi	Takeshi Kitano
2002	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
2001	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
1998	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
1997	The Hanging Garden	Thom Fitzgerald
1996	Shine	Scott Hicks
1995	Antonia's Line	Marleen Gorris
1994	Priest	Antonia Bird
1993	The Snapper	Stephen Frears
1992	Strictly Ballroom	Baz Luhrmann
1991	The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam
1990	Cyrano de Bergerac	Jean-Paul Rappeneau
1989	Roger & Me	Michael Moore
1988	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Pedro Almodóvar
1987	The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner
1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Denys Arcand
1985	The Official Story	Luis Puenzo
1984	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton
1983	The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan
1982	Tempest	Paul Mazursky
1981	Chariots of Fire	Hugh Hudson
1980	Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg
1979	Best Boy	Ira Wohl
1978	Girlfriends	Claudia Weill

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