A week after charming Vancouver Critics, Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The $15,000 award was presented Wednesday night by actor Jay Baruchel, marking the first time the designation has gone to the same director two years running. Villeneuve won for Polytechnique in 2009.

Villeneuve, who was up against Vincenzo Natali (Splice) and Bruce McDonald (Trigger) in the category, must surely be running out of shelf space for all his awards – although hopefully he has room for one more. Incendies is up for an Oscar at the end of February.

“Winning our top Canadian prize two years in a row is a testament to Denis Villeneuve’s brilliance as a filmmaker and the astounding scale of his creative ambition,” said TFCA president Brian D. Johnson. “With Incendies, he has bridged Montreal and the Middle East to create a deeply resonant tragedy about family and the uncontainable nature of war.”

Don McKellar presented the Film Critic’s $5,000 Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist to Toronto’s Daniel Cockburn (You Are Here), while the CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi presented a Special Citation to director Bruce McDonald “for a year of exceptional creativity.” McDonald directed four films in 2010: This Movie Is Broken, Trigger, Hard Core Logo 2 and Music from the Big House.