October 2026 Honorable Mentions

Alongside this year's winners, the Toronto Film Awards is pleased to recognise its Honorable Mentions. Spanning films, documentaries, animation, music videos and screenplays, these projects were selected for the strength of their work and their contribution to this year's competition. Congratulations to all recognised creators.

"BETWEEN ASHES AND ALGORITHMS" VO INGLES – Jordi Piris

5000 Miles 5000 Mustangs Documentary – Julianne Neal
A Death in Gravy – Toph Whitmore
A Hard Print – David Templeton
A Love Supreme – Walt Alexander
A Prince Among Men – Kirk Wilson
A Song From Under The Floorboards – Adam Goudchaux
Adolfo – Séptima Producciones
Alphabet City Burning: Operation Pressure Point – Nik Prietus
Anyone Who Ever Loved – Jeffery Wingfield
At The Flash – Sean Chandler
Attack Of The Sasquatch – Rudolph Rajendra
Autopilot – Bill Birney
Azrael Ascending – Jose Montalvo
BalDina and the Long-haired one – Patrycja Duczkowska
BAYAZID – Zanyar Farhadi
Boy Scientist: The Prequel to Forever – Susan Lim
Boy With Vista – Nelson Clark
Breakout – John Hipwell
Brother Zero – Neel Chowdhury
Bumpy Night on the Walk of Fame – Loretta Wish
Cancer-Soul – Tilo Wondollek
Chess Club - "Wedding Of The Year" – Adam Chase
Christmas at Moriah Hallow – Emile B Lacerte Jr
Chrono Momentum – Shaun Barry
Claire Doesn't Sleep – Leo Wolfenstein
Coppers, Crooks and Corruptables: NYC 1846 – MJ Politis
Courtyard windows – Pepi Romagnoli
DESERT OF THE MISTS – Cristiana Bontemps
Detuning Tipping Points – Theo Rekelhof
DIGITAL DETOX – Federico Cambria
Dining with destiny – Sindre Dahl-Øen
Doors Open – Alicia Dill
DROPLET-Films – Rashmi Shrivastav
Etnoragù – Cristiano Esposito
Flame of the Iceni - Pilot Script – Laura Harris
fuck skiing – Juli Schütter
Gamed the System – Lennie Graves
Gaucho – Eric Weston
g-Pilots – Walter Bauer
Gravewake - Music Video (Horror) – Steven Hillen
Hackathon – Tom Rivers
Haircut 100 - Take That Situation (and put it right) – Steve Kemsley
Healing Places: Pilot – Gerald Wood
Here She Comes – Jasmine Aziz
Joseph The Brahmin – Duncan Rao
Kingdom Fungi – Joshua Thompson
Kissing The Frog Prince – Sean Chandler
Les Couturiere – Cate Cole
Manatee. – Emilie Richelet
MANKATO – Fred Agnew
Mare Crisium – Kaspar Keller
Maya – Sunil Datar
Misirlou Blues – Dimitrios Liakos
Monday's Hero – Larry Downes 

More Than a Mountain – Loz Henshall
MOUNT MORA – Eric Sollars
My Turkey Redeemer Liveth – Loretta Wish
Nix Figment – Cassandra Dawn
NKOA – Jean-Michel Loutoby
Northern Venture – Daryl Granger
Oh my baby – Sharon Shobana Vasudevan
Oienkonton - Hanging Tobacco – Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel
On Lungs Alone - Music Video (Alternative) – Steven Hillen
On Queer Aging and Endings – Christian Schulz-Quach
On The Record – Adam Goudchaux
Pardon The Interruption – Olivia Lee
Planted – Billy Allison
Pop Lies – Alessandro Orlandi
Psycho Bot – Pete Jacelone
Puget Sound – Ralph Wagnitz
Rabbit Studio – Emile B Lacerte Jr
Rapunzel - The Great Escape – Dulcinea Daaé
RENT A FRIEND! – Mike Madigan
Reverie (a Dream) – Peter Perenyi
Review – Jonathan Zarantonello
ROAD TO 42: A MARATHON STORY – Darryl Aaljo
Safe Haven – Will Carter
Sasquatch Sizzle Reel – Rudolph Rajendra
Seats at the Table – Chris Farina
Serf's Up: Home & Happiness in the New Feudalism – Alan Kryszak
Shimo-Mizuno Meeting Hall – Mitsuo Kurihara
Strangers on the Shore – Emer OShea
Syndrome – Dominic Robitaille
THE ADVENTURES OF SIR HAMPTON THE GREAT - EPISODE 1 - "POOR AVION" – Grady Cook
The Battle of Assaroe – Emer OShea
The Engineer – Zanyar Farhadi
The Heart of Christmas – Nick Abdo
The Long Shot – Jasmine Aziz
The Magic Man – Rudolph Rajendra
The Numbers – Jack Min
The Quest - The Journey Ahead (Part 1) – Kenneth Ching
The Reincarnation of Marie – Henry Woodman
The Sabine Saga – William Murphy
The Void Ones – 소원 정
The War Within Her – Christian Bruyere
The Woman Pope – Nelson Clark
'Til You Make It - The Gallery – Philip Hayden
Tryp: Clean Your Room – Brian Hailes
UBUME – Malory Congoste
Until The Day – Yushu Shen
Upyr: Blood at Birch Grove – Serge Yarovoi
Vaelena – Kenneth Ching
Vampire Crossroads – Serge Yarovoi
VAMPIROLOGY 101 – Grady Cook
WALKING THROUGH MOGAO CAVES – Zeng Hua
We Will Be Strong (A song about Hope) Music Video – Jaycool Charisma
Whirlight - No Time To Trip – Ciro Camera
Whisper to the future – Grace Li
Wicked Women and Their Men – Merrill Jones
Wyoming – Adam Goudchaux
Yoga Boy and Karma Cat – Rudolph Rajendra