Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet has received the fiftieth anniversary version Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition’s TIFF Individuals’s Alternative Award, boosting its prospects of a greatest image Oscar nomination.
That is the second time Zhao has received the award, the final time being with Nomdland within the asterisk 12 months of 2020 when it debuted concurrently in Toronto, Telluride and Venice and received one of the best image Oscar.
Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley, who’s regarded by awards pundits because the early Oscar frontrunner for her efficiency as Agnes Hathaway, spouse of William Shakespeare performed by Paul Mescal, grieving the lack of her little one. The drama premiered in Telluride and opens by Focus Options on November 27, increasing extensive on December 12.
The viewers award winner is a confirmed bellwether in awards season. During the last 15 years, all however two winners have earned a greatest image Oscar nomination, and three – Nomadland, 12 Years A Slave, and Inexperienced E book – have received the Academy Award for greatest image.
Park Chan-wook’s No Different Alternative, which premiered in Venice and opens Busan this week, claimed the inaugural Worldwide Individuals’s Alternative Award. The darkish comedy can be South Korea’s Oscar submission.
Barry Avrich’s The Street Between Us: The Final Rescue, which was on the centre of a reinstatement controversy at TIFF this 12 months, received the documentary award.
Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna The Band The Present The Film received the Individuals’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award.
Full listing of TIFF winners under:
Individuals’s Alternative Awards
Individuals’s Alternative Award
Hamnet, dir. Chloe Zhao
First runner-up: Frankenstein
Second runner-up: Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller
Individuals’s Alternative Worldwide Award
No Different Alternative, dir. Oark Chan-wook
First runner-up: Sentimental Worth
Second runner-up: Homebound
Individuals’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award
Nirvanna The Band The Present The Film, dir. Matt Johnson
First runner-up: Obsession
Second runner-up: The Livid
Individuals’s Alternative Documentary Award
The Street Between Us: The Final Rescue, dir. Barry Avrich
First runner-up: EPiC: Elvis Presley In Live performance
Second runner-up: You Had To Be There: How The Toronto Godspell Ignited The Comedy Revolution…
Quick Cuts Awards
Greatest Worldwide Movie
Discuss Me (Sp-US), dir. Joecar Hanna
Greatest Canadian Movie
The Woman Who Cried Pearls, dirs. Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
Greatest Animated Quick Movie:
To The Woods (Fr), dir. Agnès Patron
FIPRESCI Award
Forastera (Sp-It-Swe), dir. Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
NETPAC Award
In Search Of The Sky (Vimukt, India), dir. Jitank Singh Gurjar
Greatest Canadian Discovery Award
Blue Heron, dir. Sophy Romvari
Honourable Point out: 100 Sundown, dir. Kunsang Kyirong
Greatest Canadian Movie Award offered by Canada Goose
Uiksaringitara (Improper Husband), dir. Zacharias Kunuk
Honourable Point out: There Are No Phrases, dir. Min Sook Lee
Platform Competitors Award
To The Victory! (Ukr-Lith), dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych
Honourable point out: Hen (Ger-Gre-Hun), dir. György Pálfi.