Toronto (TIFF) 2018 Winners
Toronto Film Festival’s audience prize went to Peter Farrelly’s Green Book directed to Peter Farrelly. This puts it in prime Oscar territory — five TIFF audience award winners have won Oscars for best picture, including Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire. This is why TIFF is such a prime territory for acquisitions executives.
Peter Debruge wrote in his review of Green Book for Variety: “Featuring a pair of terrific performances by Viggo Mortensen as a goombah with a heart of gold and Mahershala Ali as multilingual composer-musician Don Shirley, the story may be unique, yet it goes pretty much exactly the way you might expect, with one huge twist: The credits read “Directed by Peter Farrelly” — which means this feel-good tour through American bigotry was made by one-half of the sibling duo responsible for ‘Dumb and Dumber’ and ‘There’s Something About Mary’.”
This Dreamworks/ Participant/ Innisfree/ Wessler Production being sold by Mr. Smith and to be released in the U.S. by Universal touts top production values as well as a top notch script as one would expect from Dreamworks and Participant.
Other prizes include
See the full list of awards below.
Best Canadian Short Film: Brotherhood, Meryam Joobeur
Best Short Film: The Field, Sandhya Suri
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film: Roads in February, Katherine Jerkovic
Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: The Fireflies Are Gone, Sebastien Pilote
FIPRESCI Prize for Discovery: Float Like A Butterfly, Carmel Winters
FIPRESCI Prize for Special Presentations: Skin, Guy Nattiv
Eurimages Audentia Award for Best Female Director: Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, Fig Tree
NETPAC Award: The Third Wife, Ash Mayfair (Vietnam)
Toronto Platform Prize: City of Last Things, Wi Ding Ho
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
Grolsch People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award: The Man Who Feels No Pain, Vasan Bala
Grolsch People’s Choice Documentary Award: Free Solo, E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
Grolsch People’s Choice Award: Green Book, Peter Farrelly
