And that’s a wrap. After an almost two-week frenzy of premieres, screenings, crimson carpets, events, and a few extraordinarily drained journalists (ahem), this 12 months’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition ends immediately. And, as traditional, the annual fest ended each in model and with a reasonably logical endpoint: a Sunday morning awards ceremony.
Proper to it: This 12 months’s winner, and the primary filmmaker to take house two Individuals’s Alternative Awards, is Chloé Zhao for her “Hamnet.” (The filmmaker beforehand gained in 2020 along with her “Nomadland.”)
This 12 months’s ceremony included the presentation of quite a few awards, from the much-anticipated Individuals’s Alternative Award to a pair of brand-new accolades, the Worldwide Individuals’s Alternative Award and Greatest Animated Quick Movie.
Nevertheless it’s the Individuals’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 Individuals’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 Guide,” and “Nomadland”) truly gained the award. (Final 12 months’s winner, “The Lifetime of Chuck,” was not launched till this 12 months.)
All function movies and sequence 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 embrace the Individuals’s Alternative Award, the Individuals’s Alternative Documentary Award, the Individuals’s Alternative Midnight Insanity Award, and the brand-new Worldwide Individuals’s Alternative Award.
Right this moment’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 total awards ceremony, which kicked off at 10 A.M. ET, under and hold studying for a whole listing of award winners from the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
Individuals’s Alternative Award: “Hamnet” (Chloé Zhao), First runner-up: “Frankenstein” (Guillermo del Toro), Second runner-up: “Wake Up Useless Man” (Rian Johnson)
Individuals’s Alternative Documentary Award: “The Highway 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)
Individuals’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 Individuals’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 Smooth Contact” (Heather Younger)
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Animated Movie: “To the Woods” (Agnès Patron)
Vimeo Employees Choose: “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)
