The Toronto International Film Festival announced its awards yesterday at a reception at the Intercontinental Hotel Toronto. The Blackberry People's Choice Award went to David O. Russell's emotional but humorous Silver Linings Playbook, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. The BlackBerry People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award went to Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, about a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who gets tangled up in the Los Angeles criminal underworld when his friends kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) dog Tzu. First runner up was Barry Levinson’s The Bay and second runner up was Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End.
The BlackBerry People’s Choice Documentary Award went to to Bartholomew Cubbins for Artifact, which followed singer/actor Jared Leto and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars in battle with a record label. First runner up was Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan’s Storm Surfers 3D, while second runner up was Rob Stewart’s Revolution, making it the highest-ranked Canadian documentary at the festival. The City of Toronto + Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film was won by Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways. The SKYY Vodka Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film was a tie between Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral and Jason Buxton’s Blackbird, starring TIFF Rising Star Connor Jessup.
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Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
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really wanna see it!