The Jay Scott Prize is an annual film award presented by the
Toronto Film Critics Association
The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) is an organization of film critics from Toronto-based publications. As of 1999, the TFCA is a member of the FIPRESCI.
History
The Toronto Film Critics Association is the official organization of Toro ...
, in conjunction with
commercial sponsor
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Stella Artois
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, to an emerging talent in the Canadian film industry.
First presented in 2009, the award was named in memory of influential Canadian
film critic
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism by film scholars, who study the composition of film theory and publish their findin ...
Jay Scott
Jeffrey Scott Beaven (October 4, 1949 – July 30, 1993), known professionally by his pen name Jay Scott, was a Canadian film critic."Critic Jay Scott, 43 among world's best". ''Toronto Star'', July 31, 1993.
Early life
Scott was born in Lincol ...
. The award has been most commonly presented to film directors, but has also been given to actors; it is generally given to a filmmaker or performer who has achieved a significant career breakthrough in the previous year, but is ultimately given in consideration of the recipient's overall body of work rather than for that specific work.
The winner of the award receives
$10,000.
Sponsors
From 2009 to 2012, the prize was sponsored by
Deluxe. From 2013 to 2015, the prize was sponsored by
Scotiabank
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. As of 2016, the prize is sponsored by
Anheuser-Busch InBev
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, brewers of Stella Artois, and is now known as the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize.
Winners
*2009:
Xavier Dolan
Xavier Dolan-Tadros (; born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature ...
*2010:
Daniel Cockburn
Daniel Ernest Cockburn is a Canadians, Canadian performance artist, film director and video artist. Cockburn won the Jay Scott Prize in 2010 and the European Media Art Festival's principal award in 2011 for his debut feature film ''You Are Here ...
*2011:
Ingrid Veninger
Ingrid Veninger (born August 21, 1968) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor at York University. Veninger began her career in show business as a child actor in commercials and on television; as a teen, she was fea ...
*2012:
Nicolás Pereda
Nicolás Pereda (born 1982) is a Mexican-Canadian film director. To date, he has directed nine features and three short films.
Personal life
Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship and is a resid ...
*2013:
Matt Johnson
*2014:
Albert Shin
*2015:
Anne Émond
Anne Émond (born 1982) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in Montreal, Quebec.
Early life and education
Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate p ...
*2016:
Ashley McKenzie
Ashley McKenzie (born 17 July 1989) is a judoka competing at the men's 60 kg division. Born in England, he represents Jamaica internationally and has competed for Great Britain in the past. He was a member of the Great Britain Olympic Ju ...
*2017:
Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is a Canadian filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with Deragh Campbell and made her List of directorial debuts, feature film directorial debut in 2016 with ''Never Eat Alone''. Her second feature film, ''Maison du Bonh ...
*2018:
Molly McGlynn
Molly McGlynn is a Canadian Americans, Canadian American film and television director and screenwriter.
*2019:
Deragh Campbell
Deragh Campbell (born May 4, 1989) is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her performances in Independent film, independent Cinema of Canada, Canadian cinema. Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz''—Veslemøy's Song' ...
*2020:
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
*2021:
Bretten Hannam
*2022:
Carol Nguyen
Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker. She is most noted for her films ''No Crying at the Dinner Table'', which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary, Best Short Documentary at the 8th C ...
*2023:
Ariane Louis-Seize[Kelly Townsend]
"In Brief: TFCA awards Luminary prize to Charles Officer"
'' Playbacl'', January 25, 2024.
*2024:
J Stevens[Nicholas Sokic]
"TFCA to honour Tonya Williams, J Stevens at awards gala"
'' Playback'', January 28, 2025.
References
External links
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{{TFCA Awards Chron
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards