The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival has ended after two weeks. Now the winners' list of the TIFF People's Choice Awards list is out! The Life of Chuck bagged the People’s Choice Award at TIFF while Emilia Pérez and Anora became first and second runner-up respectively.
People’s Choice Award: The Life of Chuck
First Runner-Up: Emilia Pérez, Second Runner-Up: Anora
People’s Choice Documentary Award: The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal
People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award: The Substance
Platform Competition Award: They Will Be Dust
Best Canadian Feature Film: Shepherds
Best International Short Film: Deck 5B
Honorable Mention: Quota
Best Canadian Short: Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?
NETPAC Award: The Last of the Sea Women
FIPRESCI Jury Award: Mother Mother
Best Canadian Discovery Award: Universal Language
TIFF’s People’s Choice Award is regarded as a reliable Oscar harbinger. Since 2012, every winner of the festival’s top prize has gone on to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. Last year, Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction won, and went on to be a major awards contender.
But The Life of Chuck could test that track record. The film is up for sale and doesn’t yet have distribution. It could be acquired and quickly readied for release this fall, or it might end up a 2025 release. The Life of Chuck drew mixed — though mostly positive reviews — out of Toronto, though audiences were clearly charmed by the uplifting drama.
Runners-up for the People’s Choice Award, which is voted on by festival attendees, were both films that first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The first was Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez. The second runner-up was Sean Baker’s Anora, the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.
The audience award for top documentary went to Mike Downie’s The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal. In the festival’s Midnight Madness section, the prize went to Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
INPUTS CREDIT: AP
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