Toronto Film Festival Winners: Hamnet Named People’s Choice Award Winner
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, the 50th Toronto International Film Festival concluded Sunday with awards presented to the top films. Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao and praised by critics, won the coveted People’s Choice Award.
In the past 15 years, 12 winners of the People’s Choice Award went on to receive Best Picture Oscar nominations, with four—including The King’s Speech, 12 Years a Slave, Green Book, and Nomadland—ultimately winning the Academy Award.
Four prizes, including People’s Choice, People’s Choice Documentary, People’s Choice Midnight Madness, and the new People’s Choice International, are decided by audience vote.
Winners of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival:
- People’s Choice Award:Hamnet by Chloé Zhao
- 2nd place: Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro
- 3rd place: Wake Up Dead Man by Rian Johnson
- People’s Choice Documentary:The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue by Barry Avrich
- 2nd place: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert by Baz Luhrmann
- 3rd place: You Had to Be There by Nick Davis
- People’s Choice Midnight Madness:Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie by Matt Johnson
- 2nd place: Obsession by Kari Barker
- 3rd place: The Furious by Kenji Tanigaki
- People’s Choice International:No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook
- 2nd place: Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier
- 3rd place: Homebound by Neeraj Ghaywan
- Platform Prize: To the Victory! by Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Best Canadian Feature Film:Wrong Husband by Zacharias Kunuk
- Special Mention: There Are No Words by Min Sook Lee
- Best Canadian First Feature:Blue Heron by Sofie Removary
- Special Mention: 100 Sunset by KhounSang Khairoung
- Best International Short Film:Talk Me by Jhokar Hanna
- Special Mention: Agapito by Arvin Belarmino & Kayla Denel Romero
- Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film:The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
- Special Mention: A Soft Touch by Heather Young
- Short Cuts Best Animated Short Film: To the Woods by Agnès Patron
- Vimeo Staff Pick Award: I Fear Blue Skies by Salar Pashtoonyar
- NETPAC Award: In Search of the Sky by Jitank Singh Gurjar
- FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize for Emerging Filmmaker: Forastera by Lucía Alenyar Iglesias
