The Individuals’s Selection Award from the just-wrapped 51st Toronto Movie Pageant has gone to Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra, with first runner-up going to I Play Rocky and second runner-up Being Heumann.
Additionally within the awards revealed Sunday morning, the Worldwide Individuals’s Selection Award went to Simon Stone’s Elsinore. The Documentary Individuals’s Selection winner was Barry Avrich’s Darlene Love: I Know The place I’ve Been. The Midnight Insanity Individuals’s Selection winner was Women And Gents, Brian Mulroney (by the way field workplace phenomenon Obsession was first runner up final 12 months).
La Bola Negra tells the story of three generations of males whose lives are intimately related by means of need, ache and love. It’s Spain’s official entry into the Worldwide Movie Oscar race and is anticipated to determine strongly in lots of different classes on the Academy Awards. Netflix releases it in theaters on Oct. 16. Curiously, the 2 runners-up come from filmmakers whose earlier movie has gained the Greatest Image Oscar: I Play Rocky director Peter Farrelly’s Inexperienced E book (which additionally gained the TIFF Individuals’s Selection in 2018) and Sian Heder’s Coda.
Voted on by viewers members since 1978 and sometimes thought of a harbinger for the Greatest Image Oscar, the Individuals’s Selection Award has been gained by such eventual Greatest Image Academy Award winners as Nomadland, Inexperienced E book, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, American Magnificence and Chariots of Hearth. Amongst those who went on to Greatest Image nominations embody final 12 months’s winner Hamnet, American Fiction, The Fabelmans, Belfast, JoJo Rabbit, Three Billboards Outdoors Ebbing Missouri, Room, La La Land, The Imitation Sport, Silver Linings Playbook, Valuable, Life Is Stunning, Locations within the Coronary heart and The Huge Chill. So, we will see how the custom of TIFF and Oscar maintain up on this regard.
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For the primary 12 months, the winner of the Platform Award that TIFF provides is immediately eligible for the Oscar Worldwide Movie Award, no want for the movie to be submitted by its house nation—certainly one of solely six movie festivals that provide this chance. The Platform Prize went to India’s Angh from filmmaker Theja Rio, now routinely entered into this 12 months’s Worldwide Movie Oscar competitors. India has but to announce its personal official entry.
Here’s a full checklist of all TIFF award winners:
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS PRESENTED BY ROGERS
Launched in 1978, the TIFF Individuals’s Selection Award, offered by Rogers, celebrates the Pageant’s prime title as chosen by Toronto’s famously passionate and discerning public viewers. The honour now spans 4 classes: total, Worldwide, Documentary and Midnight Insanity.
Individuals’s Selection Award offered by Rogers: La Bola Negra, dirs. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi
First runner-up: I Play Rocky, dir. Peter Farrelly
Second runner-up: Being Heumann, dir. Siân Heder
Worldwide Individuals’s Selection Award offered by Rogers: Elsinore, dir. Simon Stone
First runner-up: Attainable Love, dir. Lee Chang-dong
Second runner-up: The Murderer(s), dir. Hur Jin-ho
Individuals’s Selection Documentary Award offered by Rogers: Darlene Love: I Know The place I’ve Been, dir. Barry Avrich
First runner-up: Black Sunflowers, dir. James Marcus Haney
Second runner-up: The Extremely Runner dir. Mila Aung-Thwin
Individuals’s Selection Midnight Insanity Award offered by Rogers: Women and Gents, Brian Mulroney, dir. Matthew Rankin
First runner-up: The Spiral, dir. Paolo Strippoli
Second runner-up: Arrested Reminiscence, dir. SABU
PLATFORM PRIZE
Launched in 2015 and impressed by Jia Zhang-ke’s groundbreaking movie, TIFF’s Platform Prize honours filmmakers with robust directorial imaginative and prescient and distinctive storytelling. All movies within the programme are eligible for the prize. TIFF’s Platform Prize is certainly one of solely six worldwide competition awards with a direct pathway to the Oscars. Constructing on this newly established standing, the 2026 Platform programme expanded to 12 movies, with a world five-member jury deciding on the winner of the $20,000 CAD prize. This 12 months’s jury was led by President Pablo Trapero, alongside Amma Asante, Sylvia Chang, Luc Déry, and Albert Lee.
Platform Prize:
Angh, dir. Theja Rio | India
Platform jury’s assertion: “The Platform Prize goes to Angh. For its refreshing perspective, power of filmmaking, and deeply resonant portrait of a world. We reward the filmmaker’s imaginative and prescient, audacity and braveness.”
Particular Jury Award:
Brace Your Coronary heart (Garrat Du Váimmu), dir. Amanda Kernell | Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Bulgaria
Platform jury’s assertion: “We wish to acknowledge Brace Your Coronary heart with an Honourable Point out. For a way its obvious simplicity displays the complicated nature of the world at this time, its highly effective central efficiency and delightful visible journey.”
SHORT CUTS AWARDS
Quick Cuts Awards are offered to the Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie, Greatest Canadian Quick Movie, and Greatest Animated Quick Movie, as awarded by the Quick Cuts jury. Every of the three successful movies will obtain a bursary of $10,000 CAD. The 2026 jurors for the Quick Cuts Awards are Joecar Hanna, Chris Lavis, and Iris Ng.
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Worldwide Quick Movie:
MAMMALIA, dir. Elia Kalogianni | Greece, Netherlands
Quick Cuts jury’s assertion: “We had been struck by the audacity of a movie prepared to reveal what we might reasonably not admit about ourselves and ideas we thought we had been comfy with. Daring, visceral, and formally assured, it explores the poisonous relationship we don’t look at sufficient with these round us. It takes the grotesque and makes it disturbingly relatable, forcing opposing sides of a double customary into the identical body. What first feels excessive slowly reveals itself as one thing way more unsettling: a mirrored image of our personal habits, and of a society whose contradictions urgently need to be challenged.”
Honourable Point out:
The Spectacular Loss of life of Prisca, dir. Kaelo Iyizoba | Nigeria
Quick Cuts jury’s assertion: “We wished to provide an Honourable Point out to a movie that took us on a totally totally different sort of trip: a pleasant mashup of melodrama, motion and comedy that reminded us of the pure pleasure of constructing and watching cinema. Executed with exceptional precision in each filmmaking and efficiency, it turns household dynamics into one thing heightened, absurd and unexpectedly revealing. We had been particularly struck by how authentic it felt with out ever seeming to chase originality. Decisions that many filmmakers may hesitate to make had been dealt with with such confidence and ease that the movie created its personal singular tone, stuffed with persona and fully freed from pretension.”
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Canadian Quick Movie:
Struggle Child, dir. Michael Del Monte | Canada
Quick Cuts jury’s assertion: “A movie that’s directly gripping and cautionary, providing a pointy dissection of inherited masculinity and ambition. We had been taken by its enigmatic and electrical journey, and by the distinctive method it blurs efficiency and actuality, making it virtually inconceivable to disengage from the display.”
Honourable Point out:
Nearly Pink, dir. Justine Prince | Canada
Quick Cuts jury’s assertion: “A movie that helps us tackle one other shameful and traumatic expertise we concern to share. Disturbing however important, it confronts the sexual exploitation of youngsters and the social and financial forces that permit it to occur. With exceptional confidence, the movie builds and sustains an unbearably tense and terrifying environment, demanding that we take note of a actuality too usually stored out of sight.”
Quick Cuts Award for Greatest Animated Quick Movie:
Into The Betaverse, dirs. Varun Raman, Tom Hancock | United Kingdom
Quick Cuts jury’s assertion: “This movie is a venue the place ridiculous meets the profound. It’s a surprisingly emotional comedy about friendship and discovering love in surprising locations. This assured hybrid of reside motion and animation is unapologetically primitive and free. Which, in an period of AI smoothing, that roughness solely makes its humanity really feel extra current.”
Honourable Point out:
Terminal, dir. Alexandre Siqueira | Portugal, Spain, France
Quick Cuts jury’s assertion: “We shared the enjoyment of discovering a movie that is aware of tips on how to be poetic and surreal with out turning into overwhelming. It creates a fragile allegory of loss of life and loss whereas giving us the area to take a seat with these feelings. Its animation is crisp and stuffed with element, however by no means calls consideration to itself on the expense of the story. The fashion serves the movie’s quest to attach reasonably than competing with it.”
FIPRESCI PRIZE
The FIPRESCI jury awards the Worldwide Critics’ Prize, devoted to rising filmmakers, to a debut function movie having its World Premiere in TIFF’s Discovery programme. The 2026 FIPRESCI jury members are Pragya Mishra, Cătălin Olaru, Savina Petkova (PhD), Enoe Lopes Pontes (PhD), and Victor Stiff.
FIPRESCI Prize:
Ancestors, dir. David Turpin | Eire, United Kingdom
FIPRESCI jury’s assertion: “On this story of misplaced individuals discovering one another, we noticed a unprecedented command of translating the dreamy panorama of recollections and recollections into compassionate cinematic language. It immersed us in another person’s life, a time of affection and turmoil, a previous that returns by means of images and recollections to hang-out, carry longing, and provides hope directly.”
NETPAC AWARD
Offered by the Community for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema, the NETPAC Award acknowledges movies from the Asian and Pacific areas. The jury consists of three worldwide neighborhood members chosen by TIFF and NETPAC, who award the prize to one of the best Asian movie by a primary or second-time function director. The 2026 NETPAC jury was led by Jury Chairperson Mara Matta, alongside Richard Fung and Panagiotis Kotzathanasis.
NETPAC Award:
13 in Gaza, dir. Hosam Abu Dan | Palestine
NETPAC jury’s assertion: “Towards unfolding genocide, 13 in Gaza by Hosam Abu Dan turns struggling into neither spectacle nor victimhood, however into riveting photos of life in all its complexity. A courageous, intimate movie that asserts a significant new voice in cinema.”
BEST CANADIAN DISCOVERY AWARD
The Greatest Canadian Discovery Award celebrates the subsequent era of filmmakers shaping its future. The award acknowledges rising expertise whose first or second function brings a particular voice to the Canadian movie panorama. All Canadian first or second function movies in Official Choice are eligible. The winner receives a money prize of $10,000 CAD. The 2026 Greatest Canadian Discovery Award Jury members are Zarrar Kahn, Justine Pimlott, and Sophy Romvari.
Greatest Canadian Discovery Award:
Smudge the Blades, dir. Cody Lightning | Canada
Canadian Discovery jury’s assertion: “Smudge the Blades is electrical. It carries coronary heart and humour in equal measure, whereas by no means shying away from the challenges confronted by Indigenous communities brought on by the continuing therapy of Indigenous individuals and colonization of Indigenous lands. Rooted in pleasure and resilience, Smudge the Blades challenges acquainted genres by putting Indigenous voices on the centre of a narrative crammed with hope, providing a radical path ahead. Cody’s deeply empathetic directing and his eye for character, has resulted in a movie that’s propulsive, humorous and livid. An assured sophomore function about household, ambition — and the transformational energy of neighborhood.”
Honourable Point out:
The Black Field is Orange, dir. Yuula Benivolski | Canada
Canadian Discovery jury’s assertion: “A childhood impacted by settler ideology is unpacked by means of painful recollections and the putting use of archival photos. For its delicate, courageous and difficult formal dexterity, showcasing a nuanced depiction of the systematic erasure of Palestinian histories whereas delicately threading the needle between private and political, we award The Black Field is Orange with the Honourable Point out for this 12 months’s Discovery Award.”
BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM AWARD
The Greatest Canadian Function Movie Award honours the distinctive craft and storytelling in Canadian cinema. All Canadian function movies in Official Choice — excluding first or second options — are thought of for the award. The successful filmmaker will obtain a $10,000 CAD money prize. The 2026 Greatest Canadian Function Movie Award jury members are Hubert Davis, Deepa Mehta, and Christina Rogers.
Greatest Canadian Function Movie Award:
Sunburn, dir. Serville Poblete | Canada
Canadian Function Movie jury’s assertion: “Sunburn is a vibrant, humorous, and deeply human movie that brings a contemporary, visceral vitality to Toronto. With progressive filmmaking, exceptional performances, and an ensemble of characters who moved us, the movie achieves one thing extraordinary. We’re thrilled to acknowledge Serville Poblete as a younger filmmaker with a particular voice and a beneficiant imaginative and prescient.”
Honourable Point out:
Man in Movement: The Rick Hansen Story, dir. Adrian Buitenhuis | Canada
Canadian Function Movie jury’s assertion: “The Rick Hansen Story is a transferring, superbly crafted movie that gives a strong new perspective on Rick Hansen’s extraordinary journey, whereas reminding us of the people who find themselves too usually left behind.”
