September 17, 2017
The Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 7 to September 17, 2017. Here is the list of this year’s TIFF award winners:
People’s Choice Awards
The Grolsch People’s Choice Award
Winner: Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
First runner-up: Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya”
Second runner-up: Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me By Your Name”
The Grolsch People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award
Winner: Joseph Kahn’s “Bodied”
First runner-up: James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist”
Second runner-up: Craig Zahler’s “Brawl in Cell Block 99”
The Grolsch People’s Choice Documentary Award
Winner: Agnès Varda and JR’s “Faces Places”
First runner-up: Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas De Pencier’s “Long Time Running”
Second runner-up: Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!”
International Jury Awards
Toronto Platform Prize Presented by Air France
Warwick Thornton’s “Sweet Country”
The Prizes of the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipreci Prizes)
Winner – Discovery: Sadaf Foroughi’s “Ava”
Winner – Special Presentations: Manuel Martín Cuenca’s “The Motive (El Autor)”
Netpac Award
Winner: Huang Hsin-Yao’s The Great Buddha+
Short Film Jury Awards
IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film
Winner: Marc-Antoine Lemire’s Pre-Drink
IWC Short Cuts Award for Best Short Film
Winner: Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s The Burden (Min Börda)
Canadian Film Jury Awards
City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Film
Winner: Wayne Wapeemukwa’s “Luk’ Luk’l”
Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
Winner: Robin Aubert’s “Les Affamés”