Steve McQueen's Hunger and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds tied for best picture at the 2009 Toronto Film Critics Awards.

Hunger, about the 1981 IRA hunger strike and Bobby Sands (an IRA member who starved himself to death), also won the best first feature award.

Like the choices made by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Kathryn Bigelow was named best director for The Hurt Locker and Fantastic Mr. Fox was selected as best animated film.

The Cove, which was a Georgia Straight cover story in August, was named best documentary.

Best foreign language film went to Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, which screened at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival.

For a full list of winners, visit the TFCA Web site, which also states that their choice for best Canadian film and the Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent will be revealed in January.