Sarah Polley’s “Woman Talking” and Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion” won the first and second runner-up awards, respectively.
Sarah Polley’s “Woman Talking” and Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion” won the first and second runner-up awards, respectively.
Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama fabelmens It won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top award, the People’s Choice Award, cementing its initial position as the forerunner of the Academy Awards.
Toronto’s Audience Award was announced on Sunday as the largest North American film festival, completing its 47th edition and first full-scale gathering in three years. The return of the crowd at TIFF brought the world premiere of several anticipated crowd pleasers, including the one led by Viola Davis. lady kingryan johnson Glass Onion: Knives Out The Secret and Billy Eicher Brothers,
Toronto’s Audience Award, voted on by Festival MovieGo, is a much-anticipated harbinger of the upcoming awards season. Each of the past ten years, the TIFF winner has been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars – and has often won it. Last year, Kenneth Branaghs Belfast The much-diminished Hybrid won at the Toronto International Film Festival. A year before that, Chloe Zhao nomadic Took the TIFF award before winning the Academy Award. Other past winners include 12 years a Slave, La la Land And green book,
This year no film came to the festival more than expected. fabelmensSpielberg’s memory-filled film is about his childhood. In the film, which will release at Universal Pictures November 11, Michelle Williams and Paul Dano play the parents, with newcomer Gabriel LaBelle as teen Spielberg, Sammy Fabelman. The film garnered rave reviews after its premiere.
Spielberg said in a statement read by Cameron Bailey, “This is the most personal film I’ve made and the warm welcome from everyone in Toronto has made my first visit to TIFF so intimate and so intimate for me and my entire ‘Fableman’ family.” made personal.” , Festival Director.
The first runner-up of the award was Sarah Polley. talking woman, about female members of a Mennonite colony who gathered to discuss years of sexual abuse. Second runner-up went to Johnson Glass Onion, the director’s whodunit sequel to Netflix.
Viewers from other sections of the festival also vote for the People’s Choice Awards. The festival’s audience award for the documentary went to Black IceHubert Davis’ film about the history of black hockey players executive produced by LeBron James. midnight segment was the winner Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryEric Appel’s musical biopic parody co-written with Yankovic and starring Daniel Radcliffe.
“Wow,” Appel said in a statement. “I never in a million years thought that our satire of traditional award films would actually win an award.”