TIFF Winners 2014

Yesterday the winners were announced. So far it looks  pretty good with the Imitation Games winning the Toronto People Choice award. TIFF is where audiences can see the best of last January’s Sundance film festival: imports include Infinitely Polar Bear with Mark Ruffalo; Whiplash, which won the U.S grand jury prize and audience award; and Lynn Shelton’s Laggies. This is also the first chance for many to catch Cannes film festival prize-winners Winter Sleep (Palme d’Or), Foxcatcher (best director for Bennett Miller), Leviathan (best screenplay), Maps to the Stars (by David Cronenberg; best actress for Julianne Moore), Mr. Turner (best actor for Timothy Spall) and the two films that tied for the jury prize, Mommy by Montreal’s Xavier Dolan and Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard.

The Imitation Game is the winner. A biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch as an ingenious British codebreaker and computer-science pioneer Alan Turing has won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. Director Morten Tyldum’s “The Imitation Game” claimed the coveted Grolsch People’s Choice Award at a Sunday morning brunch, held annually to mark the end of the 11-day movie marathon. The film, which also stars Oscar nominee Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode, beat out first runner-up “Learning to Drive” — a dramedy about the unlikely friendship between Patricia Clarkson’s newly separated book editor and her driving instructor, played by Ben Kingsley — and second runner-up “St. Vincent,” which stars Bill Murray as the cantankerous caretaker of a young boy. The crowd-pleasing “The Imitation Game,” however, simply proved too compelling in a tough-to-predict year in which there was no clear front-runner for the festival’s top award.

This is the full list winner.



People's Choice Award:The Imitation Game
Runner-Ups: Learning to Drive, St. Vincent
People's Choice Award Documentary:Beats of the Antonov
People's Choice Award Midnight Madness: What Do We Do in the Shadows
Best Asian Film:Margarita, with a Straw
Best film in the Special Presentations programme: Time Out of Mind
Best film in the Discovery programme: May Allah Bless France!
Best Canadian Feature Film: Felix and Meira
Best Canadian First Feature Film: Bang Bang Baby
Best Canadian Short Film: The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer
Best International Short Film: A Single Body

The previous years the winner of Toronto Choice awards can be the treat for the Oscar. But with Boyhood and Birdman are on the race, do you think there will be a chance with The Imitation Game? Anyway this the winner of the previous years

First, a quick history of the People’s Choice awards. Oscar winners in red. Nominees in blue.

2014 The Imitation Game (2014)
2013 12 Years a Slave (2013)
2012 Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
2011 Where Do We Go Now? (2011)
2010 The King’s Speech (2010)
2009 Precious (2009)
2008 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
2007 Eastern Promises (2007)
2006 Bella (2006)
2005 Tsotsi (2005)
2004 Hotel Rwanda (2004)
2003 Zatôichi (2003)
2002 Whale Rider (2002)
2001 Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
2000 Wo hu cang long (2000)
1999 American Beauty (1999)
1998 La vita è bella (1997)
1997 The Hanging Garden (1997)
1996 Shine (1996)
1995 Antonia (1995)
1994 Priest (1994)
1993 The Snapper (1993) (TV)
1992 Strictly Ballroom (1992)
1991 The Fisher King (1991)
1990 Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
1989 Roger & Me (1989)
1988 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988)
1987 The Princess Bride (1987)
1986 Le déclin de l’empire américain (1986)
1985 La historia oficial (1985)
1984 Places in the Heart (1984)
1983 The Big Chill (1983)
1982 Tempest (1982)
1981 Chariots of Fire (1981)
1980 Bad Timing (1980)
1979 Best Boy (1979)
1978 Girlfriends (1978)

So it's clear The Imitation Game and Boyhood are both already beloved films.  I would have to say that they are positioned as the top two to win at this point, with Boyhood slightly ahead.

anyway this is the trailer of The Imitation game