It’s the moment all of Toronto (well, Film Twitter at least) has been waiting for: Toronto International Film Festival has announced its winners. The festival, which ran between 5-15 September, has seen the world premieres of the latest films from esteemed and up-and-coming directors. The big winners include Peter Farrelly’s Green Book and were announced at the festival’s closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
This year, Green Book has won the Grolsch People’s Choice Award. This award lets attendees vote on film submissions, and the accolade also includes a $15,000 cash prize (nice!) and a custom award. In second place was If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of the novel by James Baldwin, green-lit with a little help from Jake Gyllenhaal. The third runner-up for the award was Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, a much-lauded Spanish language story about childcare workers in 1970s Mexico, produced by Netflix and the subject of some debate over at Cannes earlier this summer. Surprisingly A Star Is Born didn’t make it to the finalists of this influential award – any Gaga fans’ plans to vote twice were scuppered by TIFF cracking down on the online voting process.
Source: Destructoid TIFF 2018 winners announced