Yes indeed, over at the Toronto Film Festival the audience award has been announced, something I always look forward to learning about each year. The expectation was that the winner would be one of the many Oscar hopefuls playing to acclaim and that this boost would fuel it going into the soon approaching precursor season (previous winners include Slumdog Millionaire and most recently The King’s Speech). Well, things didn’t exactly turn out that way at all, as you can see here from The Hollywood Reporter:
-Attendees of the Toronto International Film Festival have voted to award the 2011 Cadillac People’s Choice Award, the festival’s highest honor, to Nadine Labaki‘s Where Do We Go Now?, a Lebanese drama, that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, and is still seeking domestic distribution.
Where Do We Go Now? prevailed over a number of other popular options including Jonathan Levine‘s 50/50, Michel Hazanavicius‘s The Artist, Jim Field Smith‘s Butter, Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants, Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive, Jennifer Westfeldt‘s Friends with Kids, Luc Besson‘s The Lady, Bennett Miller‘s Moneyball, Dee Rees‘s Pariah, Oren Moverman‘s Rampart, Steve McQueen‘s Shame, and Jeff Nichols‘sTake Shelter.
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