The Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Discovery Award is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to a film judged to be the best Canadian first or second feature film by an emerging Canadian director.
[1] The award was previously presented from 1997 to 2019 as Best Canadian First Feature, and was discontinued after the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
[1] Concurrently with the award's reintroduction, TIFF announced that the Best Canadian Film will now be restricted to filmmakers who are releasing their third or later films, with first and second films eligible for the Discovery award.
[2] As with all of TIFF's juried awards, the jury has the discretion to grant one or more honorable mentions in addition to the main award winner.
† denotes a film which also won the Best First Feature award at the Genie Awards or the Canadian Screen Awards.