La Bola Negra Wins TIFF’s 51st People’s Choice Award as Oscar Buzz Builds for Netflix’s Oct. 16 Release
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Updated · Deadline · Sep 20
La Bola Negra Wins TIFF’s 51st People’s Choice Award as Oscar Buzz Builds for Netflix’s Oct. 16 Release
3 articles · Updated · Deadline · Sep 20
Summary
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra took the Toronto Film Festival’s top audience prize, with I Play Rocky first runner-up and Being Heumann second runner-up.
The win matters because TIFF’s People’s Choice Award has often foreshadowed Best Picture success at the Oscars; La Bola Negra is already Spain’s official International Feature submission.
Simon Stone’s Elsinore won the International People’s Choice Award, Barry Avrich’s Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been led documentary voting, and Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney topped Midnight Madness.
TIFF also gave its Platform Prize and C$20,000 to India’s Angh, whose victory now automatically qualifies it for this year’s International Film Oscar race under the festival’s new pathway.