The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Alternative Award went to The Lifetime of Chuck, handing Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation one of many most-watched prizes of the autumn movie pageant circuit.
The award for The Lifetime of Chuck was introduced on Sunday (September 15, 2024) as North American’s largest movie pageant drew to an in depth. The Lifetime of Chuck, based mostly on King’s 2020 novella of the identical title, stars Tom Hiddleston as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, an extraordinary man residing by apocalyptic cataclysms. Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Jacob Tremblay co-star.
TIFF’s Individuals’s Alternative Award is considered a dependable Oscar harbinger. Since 2012, each winner of the pageant’s high prize has gone on to be nominated for finest image on the Academy Awards. Final yr, Wire Jefferson’s American Fiction received, and went on to be a serious awards contender.
However The Lifetime of Chuck may take a look at that monitor file. The movie is up on the market and would not but have distribution. It could possibly be acquired and rapidly readied for launch this fall, or it would find yourself a 2025 launch. The Lifetime of Chuck drew combined — although principally optimistic critiques — out of Toronto, although audiences have been clearly charmed by the uplifting drama.
Runners-up for the Individuals’s Alternative Award, which is voted on by pageant attendees, have been each movies that first premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition in Could. The primary was Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez. The second runner-up was Sean Baker’s Anora, the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.
The viewers award for high documentary went to Mike Downie’s The Tragically Hip: No Costume Rehearsal. Within the pageant’s Midnight Insanity part, the prize went to Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
Revealed – September 16, 2024 05:32 pm IST