The People’s Choice Award at TIFF is always anticipated because it has proven a good barometer of which films will do well at the Oscars.
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“La La Land”, which stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, has won the people’s choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, “La La Land” follows the two leads as their lives converge in poetic chaos while they try to make their respective dreams come true in the midst of a blossoming love affair. Emma Stone, left, and Ryan Gosling arrive at the “La La Land” premiere on day 5 of the Toronto International Film Festival at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, in Toronto. That film won three Oscars. “To see it connect with Toronto audiences in this way is deeply gratifying”.
Now in its 41st year, the Toronto festival ranks with Cannes and Sundance as one of the world’s top movie gatherings.
If you’re thinking on putting down an early bet on big Oscar winners, then you don’t need to look much further than the victor of the People’s Choice Awards at the Toronto International Film Festival for an educated guess.
The prize for the festival’s Platform sidebar of worldwide films was awarded to Chilean director Pablo Larraín for “Jackie”, the Jacqueline Kennedy biopic starring Natalie Portman.
“Jackie” was the unanimous choice of a panel made up of filmmakers Brian De Palma and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and acclaimed actor Zhang Ziyi.
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“Now more than ever we need hope and romance on the big screen”, said Chazelle, 31, a former jazz musician whose second feature film “Whiplash” (2014) received five Academy Award nominations.
