And that’s a wrap. After an almost two-week frenzy of premieres, screenings, crimson carpets, events, and a few extraordinarily drained journalists (ahem), this 12 months’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant ends right now. And, as normal, the annual fest is ending each in type and with a fairly logical endpoint: a Sunday morning awards ceremony.
This 12 months’s ceremony will embody the presentation of quite a lot of awards, from the much-anticipated Individuals’s Selection Award to a pair of brand-new accolades, the Worldwide Individuals’s Selection Award and Greatest Animated Quick Movie.
But it surely’s the Individuals’s Selection Award that pulls essentially the most consideration, notably this early within the awards season (learn: actually early, however nonetheless ostensibly in it). Twelve of the final 15 Individuals’s Selection Award winners at TIFF went on to obtain Academy Award nominations for Greatest Image, and 4 of them (“The King’s Speech,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Inexperienced E book,” and “Nomadland”) really received the award. (Final 12 months’s winner, “The Lifetime of Chuck,” was not launched till this 12 months.)
All characteristic movies and collection in TIFF’s Official Choice are eligible for these awards, that are (because the identify implies) chosen by the viewers itself. The 4 audience-voted awards embody the Individuals’s Selection Award, the Individuals’s Selection Documentary Award, the Individuals’s Selection Midnight Insanity Award, and the brand-new Worldwide Individuals’s Selection Award.
In the present day’s ceremony can even embody the presentation of assorted juried awards, together with the Platform Award, the Greatest Canadian Characteristic Movie Award, the Greatest Canadian Discovery Award, the NETPAC Award, and the FIPRESCI Prize, together with three quick movie awards (Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie, Greatest Canadian Quick Movie, and new this 12 months, Greatest Animated Quick Movie).
Watch the total awards ceremony, which kicks off at 10 A.M. ET, beneath and maintain studying for a whole checklist of award winners from the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant. This checklist will probably be up to date reside because the awards are introduced.
Individuals’s Selection Award
Individuals’s Selection Documentary Award
Individuals’s Selection Midnight Insanity Award
Worldwide Individuals’s Selection Award
Platform Prize
Greatest Canadian Characteristic Movie
Greatest Canadian Discovery Award
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Canadian Quick Movie
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Animated Movie
NETPAC
Worldwide Critics’ Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) Devoted to Rising Filmmakers