The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award went to “The Life of Chuck,” handing Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation one of many most-watched prizes of the autumn movie pageant circuit.
The award for “The Life of Chuck” was announced Sunday as North America’s largest film festival drew to a close. “The Life of Chuck,” based on King’s 2020 novella of the same name, stars Tom Hiddleston as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, an extraordinary man residing by way of apocalyptic cataclysms: Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Jacob Tremblay co-star.
TIFF’s People’s Choice Award is thought to be a dependable Oscar harbinger. Since 2012, each pageant’s high prize winner has gone on to be nominated for greatest image on the Academy Awards. Last yr, Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” received and have become a significant awards contender.
But “The Life of Chuck” could test that track record. The film is up for sale and doesn’t yet have distribution. It could be acquired and quickly readied for release this fall, or it might end up a 2025 release. “The Life of Chuck” drew combined – although principally constructive evaluations – out of Toronto, although audiences had been clearly charmed by the uplifting drama.
Runners-up for the People’s Choice Award, which pageant attendees vote on, had been each movies that first premiered on the Cannes Film Festival in May. The first was Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez.” The second runner-up was Sean Baker’s “Anora,” the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.
The viewers award for high documentary went to Mike Downie’s “The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal.” In the festival’s Midnight Madness section, the prize went to Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
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