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‘The Life Of Chuck’ is surprise winner of TIFF People’s Choice Award – but who will buy it?

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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 Individuals’s Alternative Award, a traditionally dependable bellwether of an Oscar nomination.

Over a pattern pool of the final 15 years, all however one Individuals’s Alternative winner has gone on to garner a finest image Oscar nomination, and a number of other – like 12 Years A SlaveInexperienced Guide 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. Patrons had been circling because the 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 odd man. WME Unbiased and FilmNation characterize 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 Individuals’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 listing of TIFF winners: 

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS

Individuals’s Alternative Award
The Life Of Chuck (USA), dir. Mike Flanagan

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First runner-up: Emilia Pérez (Fr-USA-Mex), dir. Jacques Audiard
Second runner-up: Anora (USA), dir. Sean Baker

Individuals’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

Individuals’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

Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Worldwide Movie
Deck 5B (Swe), dir. Malin Ingrid Johansson

Honourable Point out: Quota (Neth), dirs. Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw

Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Canadian Movie
Are You Scared To Be Your self As a result of You Assume That You May 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 Girls (USA), dir. Sue Kim

BEST CANADIAN DISCOVERY AWARD

Returning after a hiatus since 2019, the renamed award celebrates a primary or second function 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 function movies in Official Choice excluding first or second options have been thought-about. The profitable filmmaker receives a C$10,000 money prize.

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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 in the course of the TIFF 2024 Tribute Awards:

  • Amy Adams: TIFF Tribute Performer Award
  • Angelina Jolie: TIFF Tribute Award in Influence 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

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