The Folks’s Selection Award (offered by Rogers) from the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition has gone to The Life Of Chuck, First Runner-Up is Emilia Perez, Second Runner-Up is Anora. The Documentary Award goes to The Tragically Hip No Gown Rehearsal, and the Midnight Insanity winner is The Substance.
Each runners up Emilia Perez and Anora have been huge winners at Cannes in Might (the latter taking the Palme d’Or) however Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Life Of Chuck was a TIFF World Premiere and a suprise winner of this award. Tom Hiddleston stars within the movie primarily based on King’s novella about three chapters within the lifetime of an peculiar man named Charles Krantz. It’s an uncommon winner right here for this award because it at present is in search of distribution and has no set launch date which suggests it could possibly be the primary Folks’s Selection winner in current reminiscence to not be at present thought-about a contender within the 2024 Awards Season race.
Voted by viewers members since 1978 and infrequently thought-about a harbinger for the Greatest Image Oscar, the TIFF Folks’s Selection Award has been received by such eventual Greatest Image Academy Award winners as Nomadland, Inexperienced Ebook, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, American Magnificence and Chariots of Hearth. Amongst people who went on to Greatest Image nominations embody final yr’s winner American Fiction, in addition to The Fabelmans, Belfast, JoJo Rabbit, Three Billboards Outdoors Ebbing Missouri, Room, La La Land, The Imitation Sport, Silver Linings Playbook, Valuable, Life Is Lovely, Locations within the Coronary heart and The Massive Chill.
