Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness
The Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to the film rated as the year's most popular film in the festival's "Midnight Madness" stream of underground and cult films.[1] The award was first introduced in 2009.[2]
After the award is announced, the festival offers a repeat screening of the winner at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on the final day of the festival.
Process
The voting process is the same as for the feature film People's Choice: at each Midnight Madness film screening, attendees are invited to "vote" for the film by leaving their ticket stubs in voting boxes outside the theatre after the show.[3]
Winners
Year | Film | Director(s) | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
2009 | The Loved Ones | Sean Byrne | [4] |
Daybreakers | Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig | ||
2010 | Stake Land | Jim Mickle | [5] |
Fubar 2 | Michael Dowse | ||
2011 | The Raid | Gareth Evans | [6] |
You're Next | Adam Wingard | ||
God Bless America | Bobcat Goldthwait | ||
2012 | Seven Psychopaths | Martin McDonagh | [7] |
The Bay | Barry Levinson | ||
John Dies at the End | Don Coscarelli | ||
2013 | Why Don't You Play in Hell? | Sion Sono | [8] |
Oculus | Mike Flanagan | ||
Witching and Bitching | Álex de la Iglesia | ||
2014 | What We Do in the Shadows | Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement | [9] |
Tusk | Kevin Smith | ||
Big Game | Jalmari Helander | ||
2015 | Hardcore Henry | Ilya Naishuller | [10] |
The Final Girls | Todd Strauss-Schulson | ||
Green Room | Jeremy Saulnier | ||
2016 | Free Fire | Ben Wheatley | [11] |
The Autopsy of Jane Doe | André Øvredal | ||
Raw | Julia Ducournau | ||
2017 | Bodied | Joseph Kahn | [12] |
The Disaster Artist | James Franco | ||
Brawl in Cell Block 99 | S. Craig Zahler | ||
2018 | The Man Who Feels No Pain | Vasan Bala | [13] |
Halloween | David Gordon Green | ||
Assassination Nation | Sam Levinson | ||
2019 | The Platform | Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | [14] |
The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson | ||
Blood Quantum | Jeff Barnaby | ||
2020 | Shadow in the Cloud | Roseanne Liang | [15] |
No runners-up named due to the reduced lineup in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto. | |||
2021 | Titane | Julia Ducournau | [16] |
You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan | ||
Dashcam | Rob Savage | ||
2022 | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Eric Appel | [17] |
Pearl | Ti West | ||
The Blackening | Tim Story | ||
2023 | Dicks: The Musical | Larry Charles | [18] |
KILL | Nikhil Nagesh Bhat | ||
Hell of a Summer | Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk |
See also
References
- ^ Walmsley, Katie (September 2009). "Oprah flick 'Precious' wins top award at Toronto". CNN. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ "TIFF lineup expands with horror, music". Telegraph-Journal, July 22, 2009.
- ^ "Choose wisely: At the Toronto International Film Festival, how do you ensure that the people have actually spoken?". The Globe and Mail, September 7, 2017.
- ^ Adam McDowell, "'Precious' awarded top prize at TIFF". Regina Leader-Post, September 21, 2009.
- ^ "The King's Speech is People's Choice; Incendies voted best Canadian picture". Vancouver Sun, September 20, 2010.
- ^ "Lebanese film wins TIFF's top prize; Starbuck is People's Choice runner-up". National Post, September 19, 2011.
- ^ "Silver Linings Playbook writes surprise TIFF ending". Toronto Star, September 17, 2012.
- ^ Bruce Kirkland, "Slave tops TIFF winners". Toronto Sun, September 16, 2013.
- ^ Bruce Kirkland, "Benedict Cumberbatch film takes audience prize at TIFF". Toronto Sun, September 15, 2014.
- ^ Jim Slotek, "TIFF 2015: 'Room' wins People's Choice Award". Winnipeg Free Press, September 20, 2015.
- ^ Chris Knight, "And the winner is ...; La La Land takes bellwether award". National Post, September 19, 2016.
- ^ Jeremy Kay (17 September 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily.
In other key awards handed out on Sunday afternoon (17), Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country claimed the Toronto Platform Prize, while Joseph Kahn's Bodied won the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. Agnès Varda and JR's Faces Places took the Grolsch People's Choice Documentary Award.
- ^ "'Green Book' boosts awards season prospects with TIFF audience award win". Screen Daily, September 16, 2018.
- ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Taika Waititi's 'Jojo Rabbit' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 15, 2019.
- ^ Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.
- ^ Steve Pond, "‘Belfast’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award". TheWrap, September 18, 2021.
- ^ Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire, September 18, 2022.
- ^ Steve Pond, "‘American Fiction’ Wins Toronto Film Festival’s Audience Award". TheWrap, September 17, 2023.
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