Mike Flanagan’s The Life Of Chuck starring Tom Hiddleston is that this yr’s shock winner of Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant’s 2024 TIFF Folks’s Alternative Award, a traditionally dependable bellwether of an Oscar nomination.
Over a pattern pool of the final 15 years, all however one Folks’s Alternative winner has gone on to garner a finest image Oscar nomination, and several other – like 12 Years A Slave, Inexperienced E book and The King’s Speech – have gained the highest prize on the Academy Awards.
But The Life Of Chuck presents an anomaly – it at present lacks a US distributor. Consumers had been circling for the reason that world premiere in Toronto and the query is, will somebody snap it up and in that case, can they flip it into a real awards season contender?
The commonly well-reviewed adaptation of the Stephen King novella is described as a life-affirming three chapters within the lifetime of an atypical man. WME Impartial and FilmNation signify North American and worldwide gross sales, respectively.
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez starring the quartet of Cannes finest actress winners Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz was the primary runner-up and Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora was second runner-up.
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance starring Demi Moore gained the TIFF Folks’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award, and Mike Downie’s The Tragically Hip: No Costume Rehearsal earned documentary honours. All options and sequence in TIFF’s official choice have been eligible for the awards, introduced by Rogers.
Full record of TIFF winners:
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
Folks’s Alternative Award
The Life Of Chuck (USA), dir. Mike Flanagan
First runner-up: Emilia Pérez (Fr-USA-Mex), dir. Jacques Audiard
Second runner-up: Anora (USA), dir. Sean Baker
Folks’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award
The Substance (UK-USA-Fr), dir. Coralie Fargeat
First runner-up: Useless Skills Society (Tai), dir. John Hsu
Second runner-up: Friendship (USA), dir. Andrew DeYoung
Folks’s Alternative Documentary Award
The Tragically Hip: No Costume Rehearsal (Can), dir. Mike Downie
First runner-up: Will & Harper (USA), dir. Josh Greenbaum
Second runner-up: Your Tomorrow (Can), dir. Ali Weinstein
SHORT CUTS AWARDS
Brief Cuts Award for Finest Worldwide Movie
Deck 5B (Swe), dir. Malin Ingrid Johansson
Honourable Point out: Quota (Neth), dirs. Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw
Brief Cuts Award for Finest Canadian Movie
Are You Scared To Be Your self As a result of You Suppose That You Would possibly Fail? (Can), dir. Bec Pecaut
FIPRESCI AWARD
Mom Mom (Som), dir. Ok’naan Warsame
NETPAC AWARD
Offered by the Community for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema recognising movies from the Asian and Pacific areas.
The Final Of The Sea Ladies (USA), dir. Sue Kim
BEST CANADIAN DISCOVERY AWARD
Returning after a hiatus since 2019, the renamed award celebrates a primary or second characteristic by an rising filmmaker who contribute to enriching the Canadian movie panorama. The winner receives a C$10,000 money prize.
Common Language (Can), dir. Matthew Rankin
Honourable Point out: You Are Not Alone (Can), dirs. Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien
BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM AWARD PRESENTED BY CANADA GOOSE
All Canadian characteristic movies in Official Choice excluding first or second options have been thought-about. The successful filmmaker receives a C$10,000 money prize.
Shepherds (Can), dir. Sophie Deraspe
PLATFORM COMPETITION AWARD
The winner receives a C$20,000 money prize.
They Will Be Mud (Sp-It-Swi), dir. Carlos Marques-Marcet
Honourable Point out: Daughter’s Daughter (Tai), dir. Huang Xi
On Sunday 8 the followingw ere honoured throughout the TIFF 2024 Tribute Awards:
- Amy Adams: TIFF Tribute Performer Award
- Angelina Jolie: TIFF Tribute Award in Affect Media
- Cate Blanchett: TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award
- Clément Ducol & Camille: TIFF Selection Artisan Award
- David Cronenberg: TIFF Norman Jewison Profession Achievement
- Durga Chew-Bose: TIFF Rising Expertise Award
- Jharrel Jerome: TIFF Tribute Performer Award
- Mike Leigh: TIFF Ebert Director Award
- Zhao Tao: TIFF Particular Tribute Award