Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s Scarborough was the first runner-up and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog was the second runner-up. In the past nine years, every People’s Choice Award winner has gone on to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Elsewhere, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s The Rescue was awarded the People’s Choice Documentary Award. Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner’s Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over was the first runner-up and Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee was the second runner-up. Julia Ducournau’s Titane won the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award with Kate Dolan’s You Are Not My Mother as the first runner-up and Rob Savage’s DASHCAM as the second runner-up.
The TIFF Platform Prize was awarded to Kamila Andini’s Yuni. This award was deliberated by a jury headed by Platform Jury President Riz Ahmed.
The awards were presented at the TIFF Tribute Awards where Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch were awarded the TIFF Tribute Actor Awards, Denis Villeneuve received the TIFF Ebert Director Award, Alanis Obomsawin won the Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media, Danis Goulet took home the TIFF Emerging Talent Award, Ari Wegner received the TIFF Variety Artisan Award, and Dionne Warwick was honoured with the TIFF Special Tribute Award.
The International Federation of Film Critics honoured Emre Kayiş’s Anatolian Leopard with the FIPRESCI Jury Award, while the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema selected Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon with their jury prize.
