MUMBAI: The Toronto Film Critics Association (TFC) has named The Social Network as this year‘s best picture.

While David Fincher won an award for best direction, Jesse Eisenberg was named best actor for his role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Co-star Armie Hammer bagged the best supporting actor award for his performance as the Winklevoss twins.

Aaron Sorkin‘s adaptation of Ben Mezrich‘s book The Accidental Billionaires was awarded the best screenplay award.

Other TFCA award winners include Jennifer Lawrence named best actress for her role in Winter?s Bone and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld as the best supporting actress for her debut performance in True Grit.

The Toronto film critics, while shutting out rival Oscar contenders like Black Swan and The King‘s Speech from its awards list, also gave the best first feature prize to British director Robert Banks for Exit Through the Gift Shop and named DreamWorks Animation‘s How To Train Your Dragon as the best animated feature.

The best foreign language film award went to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives directed by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.