People's Choice Award
Given that the festival lacks a jury and is non-competitive, regular awards handed out at other festivals for categories such as "Best Actress" or "Best Film" do not exist at the Toronto International Film Festival. The major prize, the People's Choice Award, is given to a feature-length film with the highest ratings as voted by the festival-going populace. The following list shows past winners:
- 2012 Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- 2011 Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
- 2010 The King's Speech (2010)
- 2009 Precious (2009)
- 2008 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- 2007 Eastern Promises (2007)
- 2006 Bella (2006)
- 2005 Tsotsi (2005)
- 2004 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- 2003 Zatôichi (2003)
- 2002 Whale Rider (2002)
- 2001 Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
- 2000 Wo hu cang long (2000)
- 1999 American Beauty (1999)
- 1998 La vita è bella (1997)
- 1997 The Hanging Garden (1997)
- 1996 Shine (1996)
- 1995 Antonia (1995)
- 1994 Priest (1994)
- 1993 The Snapper (1993) (TV)
- 1992 Strictly Ballroom (1992)
- 1991 The Fisher King (1991)
- 1990 Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
- 1989 Roger & Me (1989)
- 1988 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)
- 1987 The Princess Bride (1987)
- 1986 Le déclin de l'empire américain (1986)
- 1985 La historia oficial (1985)
- 1984 Places in the Heart (1984)
- 1983 The Big Chill (1983)
- 1982 Tempest (1982)
- 1981 Chariots of Fire (1981)
- 1980 Bad Timing (1980)
- 1979 Best Boy (1979)
- 1978 Girlfriends (1978)
Read more about this topic: Toronto International Film Festival
Famous quotes containing the words people, choice and/or award:
“I didn’t have any looks, I didn’t have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, “I don’t have anything.” If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].”
—Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976)
“Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the cliché that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)