And that’s a wrap. After a virtually two-week frenzy of premieres, screenings, pink carpets, events, and a few extraordinarily drained journalists (ahem), this 12 months’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition ends right now. And, as standard, the annual fest ended each in model and with a fairly logical endpoint: a Sunday morning awards ceremony.
Proper to it: This 12 months’s winner, and the primary filmmaker to take dwelling two Folks’s Alternative Awards, is Chloé Zhao for her “Hamnet.” (The filmmaker beforehand received in 2020 along with her “Nomadland.”)
This 12 months’s ceremony included the presentation of quite a few awards, from the much-anticipated Folks’s Alternative Award to a pair of brand-new accolades, the Worldwide Folks’s Alternative Award and Greatest Animated Quick Movie.
However it’s the Folks’s Alternative Award that attracts essentially the most consideration, significantly this early within the awards season (learn: actually early, however nonetheless ostensibly in it). Twelve of the final 15 Folks’s Alternative Award winners at TIFF went on to obtain Academy Award nominations for Greatest Image, and 4 of them (“The King’s Speech,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Inexperienced E-book,” and “Nomadland”) really received the award. (Final 12 months’s winner, “The Lifetime of Chuck,” was not launched till this 12 months.)
All characteristic movies and collection in TIFF’s Official Choice are eligible for these awards, that are (because the identify implies) chosen by the viewers itself. The 4 audience-voted awards embody the Folks’s Alternative Award, the Folks’s Alternative Documentary Award, the Folks’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award, and the brand-new Worldwide Folks’s Alternative Award.
Right now’s ceremony additionally included the presentation of varied juried awards, together with the Platform Award, the Greatest Canadian Function Movie Award, the Greatest Canadian Discovery Award, the NETPAC Award, and the FIPRESCI Prize, together with three quick movie awards (Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie, Greatest Canadian Quick Movie, and new this 12 months, Greatest Animated Quick Movie).
Try the complete awards ceremony, which kicked off at 10 A.M. ET, beneath and preserve studying for a whole listing of award winners from the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Folks’s Alternative Award: “Hamnet” (Chloé Zhao), First runner-up: “Frankenstein” (Guillermo del Toro), Second runner-up: “Wake Up Lifeless Man” (Rian Johnson)
Folks’s Alternative Documentary Award: “The Street Between Us: The Final Rescue” (Barry Avrich), First runner-up: “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Live performance” (Baz Luhrmann), Second runner-up: “You Needed to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…” (Nick Davis)
Folks’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award: “Nirvanna the Band the Present the Film” (Matt Johnson), First runner-up: “Obsession” (Curry Barker), Second runner-up: “The Livid” (Kenji Tanigaki)
Worldwide Folks’s Alternative Award: “No Different Alternative” (Park Chan-wook), First runner-up: “Sentimental Worth” (Joachim Trier), Second runner-up: “Homebound” (Neeraj Ghaywan)
Platform Prize: “To the Victory!” (Valentyn Vasyanovych), Honorable point out: “Hen” (György Pálfi)
Greatest Canadian Function Movie: “Flawed Husband” (Zacharias Kunuk), Honorable point out: “There Are No Phrases” (Min Sook Lee)
Greatest Canadian Discovery Award: “Blue Heron” (Sophy Romvari), Honorable point out: “100 Sundown” (Kunsang Kyirong)
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie: “Speak Me” (Joecar Hanna), Honorable point out: “Agapito” (Arvin Belarmino, Kyla Danelle Romero)
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Canadian Quick Movie: “The Woman Who Cried Pearls” (Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski), Honorable point out: “A Comfortable Contact” (Heather Younger)
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Animated Movie: “To the Woods” (Agnès Patron)
Vimeo Employees Decide: “I Worry Blue Skies” (Salar Pashtoonyar)
NETPAC: “In Search of the Sky” (Jitank Singh Gurjar)
Worldwide Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) Devoted to Rising Filmmaker: “Forastera” (Lucía Aleñar Iglesias)
