This year’s Toronto International Film Festival has wrapped, and the People’s Choice Award has gone to Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical film “The Fabelmans”.
The win is significant as numerous winners of that award in the past fifteen years have gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar, including “Nomadland,” “Green Book,” “12 Years A Slave,” “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog Millionaire”.
Many of the rest were Best Picture nominees, including “Belfast,” “JoJo Rabbit,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “Room,” “La La Land,” “The Imitation Game,” and “Silver Linings Playbook”.
In terms of this year’s films, “Women Talking” took the first runner-up prize whilst “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” was second runner-up. “Weird: The Al Yankovich Story” won the Midnight Madness section, while “Black Ice” took the top documentary award.
This also marks the end of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto – the three film festival trifecta that has dominated headlines in recent weeks. New York and London will have their own film fests shortly.
Source: Deadline
