Well, the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival has now officially come to a close after 11 days of cinematic bliss, and on Sunday afternoon, the winners of the top prizes at the fest were announced. Find out the TIFF 2017 winners below, and see if you agree with the ‘people’s choices’.
TIFF 2017 winners: Three Billboards, Bodied are the People’s Choice.
The People’s Choice Award is often considered an indication for Oscar, and this year marked the 40th year that Toronto audiences were able to cast a ballot for their favourite Festival film for the Grolsch People’s Choice Award. This year’s award goes to Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The award offers a $15,000 cash prize and custom award, sponsored by Grolsch. The second runner-up is Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. The first runner-up is Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya.
The Grolsch People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award goes to Joseph Kahn’s Bodied. The second runner-up is Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99. The first runner-up is James Franco’s The Disaster Artist.
The Grolsch People’s Choice Documentary Award goes to Agnès Varda and JR’s Faces Places. The second runner-up is Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! The first runner-up is Long Time Running directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas De Pencier.
What do you think of the TIFF 2017 winners?
We’ve been out in Toronto covering the festival for the past ten days or so, and our complete coverage is available – including reviews for those aforementioned movies – at the end of this link. If you follow us on Facebook, you’ll also be able to see all of our ‘reaction videos’, some more informal reviews of all of the top movies.
It truly has been a great year for cinema, and we cannot wait to head back next year.
