Sentences with phrase «tiff audience award»
In previous years, the TIFF Audience Award has gone to «Room,» «The Imitation Game,» «12 Years a Slave,» «The King's Speech,» «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Silver Linings Playbook,» and «La La Land.»
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«The Shape of Water's» Golden Lion win isn't as much of a slam dunk prognosticator as the TIFF Audience Award, but del Toro's fairy tale does join «Somewhere,» «The Wrestler,» and Brokeback Mountain» as recent American productions to win top honors at Venice.
Not exact matches
It's notable because (as TIFF reminded us with tags in front of every film) in past years Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech were winners of the «Audience Award», later going on to also win Best Picture as well as the hearts of the entire world.
The former won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, while the latter shocked mostly everyone in the industry by winning the Audience Award at TIFF.
In the weeks following the «Three Billboards» premiere at the Venice International Film Festival — followed by a North American premiere at TIFF, where it picked up the coveted audience award — McDonagh saw reports of countless women speaking out against Harvey Weinstein and so many other sexual predators.
TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.
Additionally, the winners of the various awards at TIFF were announced, including an important win for Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, which took home the coveted Audience Award (the same that Slumdog Millionaire won before it went on to nab Best Picture at the Oscars).
Brie Larson, Room — Lenny Abrahamson's tense adaptation of Emma Donoghue's bestseller won TIFF's People's Choice audience award in no small part due to Larson's precisely calibrated performance.
La La Land: Damien Chazelle's love letter to Hollywood came into TIFF with more heat than any other film: It infatuated audiences at the Venice Film Festival, where Emma Stone won a best actress award, and continued to wrap North American critics around its lithe little finger in Toronto.