Overview

• Festival director Cameron Bailey announced the win at Sunday’s ceremony, and Zhao thanked audiences in a recorded Instagram message.
• Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein placed second, with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery in third.
• Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue won the documentary People’s Choice Award.
• Park Chan-wook received the International People’s Choice Award for No Other Choice.
• TIFF winners are chosen by audiences rather than a jury, with more than 290 films competing at the ten-day 50th edition.