Overview

• TIFF announced the result Sunday, with Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man taking first and second runner-up.
• Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice earned the festival’s first International People’s Choice Award.
• Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue won the documentary audience prize after being briefly withdrawn and then reinstated by TIFF.
• The People’s Choice Award is decided by ticketed attendees voting after public screenings and has a strong track record of aligning with Best Picture nominations.
• Hamnet stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, and is slated for theatrical release on Nov. 27 via Focus Features.