Toronto International Film Festival, The Life of Chuck won the People’s Choice Award, with Emilia Pérez and Anora as runners-up. The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal won Best Documentary, and The Substance took the Midnight Madness Award.

The Toronto Film Festival's audience winner has gone on to receive an Oscar Best Picture nomination for the last 12 years in a row

Mike Flanagan's The Life Of Chuck picked up the top People's Choice honor Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival as its 2024 edition wrapped with renewed celebrity heat but still in the shadow of Venice and Cannes.

El premio del público del Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF) fue para “The Life of Chuck”, lo que le dio a la adaptación de Mike Flanagan de Stephen King uno de los premios más vistos del circuito de festivales de cine del año.

This adaptation of a Stephen King novella stars Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mark Hamill. “The Substance” and a Tragically Hip documentary also won.

The TIFF People's Choice Award is usually a bellwether to the Oscars, but this year the prize reflects rather more deep-seated global concerns among the voters than just the race to Best Picture. Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King - one of the four in his 2020 novella If