The People’s Choice Award (contransiented by Rogers) from the fair-wrapped 2024 Toronto International Film Festival has gone to The Life Of Chuck, First Runner-Up is Emilia Perez, Second Runner-Up is Anora. The Documentary Award goes to The Tragicassociate Hip No Dress Rehearsal, and the Midnight Madness triumphner is The Substance.
Both runners up Emilia Perez and Anora were huge triumphners at Cannes in May (the latter taking the Palme d’Or) but Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King changeation The Life Of Chuck was a TIFF World Premiere and a supelevate triumphner of this award. Tom Hiddleston stars in the film based on King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an frequent man named Charles Krantz. It is an rare triumphner here for this award as it currently is seeing for distribution and has no set free date which unbenevolents it could be the first People’s Choice triumphner in recent memory to not be currently pondered a contfinisher in the 2024 Awards Season race.
Voted by audience members since 1978 and standardly pondered a harbinger for the Best Picture Oscar, the TIFF People’s Choice Award has been won by such eventual Best Picture Academy Award triumphners as Nomadland, Green Book, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty and Chauproars of Fire. Among those that went on to Best Picture nominations include last year’s triumphner American Fiction, as well as The Fabelmans, Belrapid, JoJo Rabbit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Room, La La Land, The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook, Precious, Life Is Beautiful, Places in the Heart and The Big Chill.