Overview

• Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was first runner-up and Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery placed second in the audience vote.
• Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice won TIFF’s new International People’s Choice Award, ahead of Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound.
• Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue took the documentary audience prize after TIFF briefly withdrew and then reinstated the film.
• Hamnet adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel and stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as Agnes, following strong reception from a Telluride premiere.
• TIFF notes it verifies ballots by matching emails to ticket-buyer records and checking IP addresses to curb duplicate voting.