Author: Etan Vlessing / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
The Peter Farrelly film had a world premiere at the fest. The first runner up is Barry Jenkins’ ‘If Beale Street Could Talk.’
Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, has joined the search for the next Oscar frontrunner out of the Toronto International Film Festival after picking up the top People’s Choice honor on Sunday.
The feel-good buddy comedy-drama was named the top audience prize winner in Toronto, which is often a barometer of future Academy Award nominations.
The first runner-up for the top audience prize was Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk; the second runner-up was Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma.
The expected top audience winner, Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born, surprised by not making it into the runner-up column, in part because of a voting system at TIFF that ensured fans of co-star Lady Gaga did not vote multiple times or, as festival director Piers Handling told the Hollywood Reporter, “No one crashed the voting process.”
The People’s Choice Awards are voted on by TIFF attendees, either with their ticket stubs placed in a box in a theater or with an online vote. Voters could not vote more than once online using their email address, as TIFF measured the origin of each vote and matched them to the festival’s ticket buyer information and database.
The festival added in a statement on its
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