The People’s Choice Award (presented by Rogers) from the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto International Film Festival 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 Dress Rehearsal, and the Midnight Madness winner is The Substance.
Voted by audience members since 1978 and often considered a harbinger for the Best Picture Oscar, the TIFF People’s Choice Award has been won by such eventual Best Picture Academy Award winners as Nomadland, Green Book, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire. Among those that went on to Best Picture nominations include last year’s winner American Fiction, as well as The Fabelmans, Belfast, JoJo Rabbit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Room, La La Land, The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook, Precious, Life Is Beautiful, Places in the Heart and The Big Chill.
