Now it is time for my final entry in this yearlong celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival. It has become the general assumption that winning the TIFF People’s Choice Award […]
It is time for the penultimate edition of this yearlong celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival. This month, I will be looking at Lee Daniels’ Precious (Based on the Novel “Push” […]
With it being October, I decided that I would take a break from watching winner’s of the TIFF People’s Choice Award and watch the film from the popular Midnight Madness programme. Specifically, I decided to […]
The People’s Choice Award for the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival went to Terry George’s drama Hotel Rwanda. The film went on to be nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Don Cheadle, […]
The 2002 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival saw the world premiere of the New Zealand-set drama Whale Rider. The film went on to win the People’s Choice Award that year and it resulted […]
I was the benefit of some good timing for this month’s blindspot selection, which is Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 debut film Strictly Ballroom, which won the People’s Choice award that year at TIFF. Last night, TIFF officially began […]
In the 40 year history of the Toronto International Film Festival, there have been only two documentaries that ended up winning the Festival’s People’s Choice Award. The first of these was the 1979 Academy Award […]
The opening film of the 1986 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was Denys Arcand’s The Decline of the American Empire, which has the distinction of being the final film to screen at Toronto’s […]
At the 1983 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, writer/director Lawrence Kasdan’s sophomore film The Big Chill was chosen to open the festival. The film went on to win that year’s People’s Choice Award […]
In 1981 a British historical drama named Chariots of Fire won the People’s Choice award at the Festival of Festivals. The film would then go on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This […]
