TORONTO — "The Social Network" has racked up another slew of pre-Oscar awards, this time from the Toronto Film Critics Association, which has crowned it best picture of the year.

The drama about the creation of Facebook scored five prizes from the critics group, including best director for David Fincher, best actor for Jesse Eisenberg, best supporting actor for Armie Hammer, and best screenplay for Aaron Sorkin.

Association president Brian Johnson, a film critic for Maclean's magazine, says members consider the film "a superbly crafted 'movie of the moment."'

Other acting awards went to "Winter's Bone" star Jennifer Lawrence and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld for her supporting role in "True Grit."

"The Social Network" has been embraced by several influential tastemakers including the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Online and the Boston Society of Film Critics, which all named it best picture.

The Toronto Film Critics Association presents its awards Jan. 12.

Its other winners include "How to Train Your Dragon" for best animated feature, "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" for best foreign-language film, and "Exit Through the Gift Shop," which claimed best first feature and the Allan King Documentary Award.

The TFCA dinner will also reveal the winner of the $15,000 Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award. The nominees are: "Incendies," directed by Denis Villeneuve; "Splice," directed by Vincenzo Natali, and "Trigger," directed by Bruce McDonald.

McDonald is guaranteed at least one prize -- the association voted to give him a special citation for a banner year that saw him churn out four features: "This Movie is Broken," "Trigger," "Music from the Big House," and "Hard Core Logo 2."

The association will also present the $5,000 Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent to Toronto writer-director Daniel Cockburn for his feature debut, "You Are Here," and will hand out its first Deluxe Student Film Award, which gives $3,000 in post-production services to a student filmmaker.