Overview

• Zhao becomes the first filmmaker to take TIFF’s top audience award twice, following Nomadland in 2020.
• Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was first runner-up, with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in third.
• TIFF introduced an International People’s Choice Award this year, won by Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.
• Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue won the documentary audience prize after the film was briefly withdrawn and reinstated.
• TIFF’s People’s Choice has closely aligned with the Oscars in recent years, with most winners earning Best Picture nominations and several winning.