The rap satire ‘Bodied’ and the doc ‘Faces Places’ also took the fest’s top honors.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri got a major boost for its Oscar prospects on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it received the top audience prize.
The dark comedic drama from Fox Searchlight and director Martin McDonagh stars Frances McDormand as a mother whose daughter was brutally raped and murdered. Her character decides to call out the police chief, played by Woody Harrelson, on three giant billboards for failing to find the killer, hoping to drive him into action. Three Billboards earned the best screenplay prize in Venice, on its way to Toronto, and is set for a Nov. 10 release.
The first runner-up in the main audience winner category was Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, the Tonya Harding biopic starring Margot Robbie, while the second runner-up was Luca Guadagnino’s romance drama Call Me by Your Name, starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet.
Three Billboards joins such previous TIFF audience award winners as Silver Linings Playbook, The King’s Speech and last year’s La La Land — movies that rode a wave out of the fest to awards-season glory.
Other audience prizes in Toronto included JR and Agnes Varda’s Faces Places, which took home the audience award for best documentary. The first runner-up in the category was Long Time Running, a Tragically Hip concert film by Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas De Pencier, while the second runner-up was Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size…
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