First of all, I’m so bummed that I wasn’t in Toronto for TIFF. It has always been the highlight of my year as it signals the busy but fun award season. But darn you COVID! Still, the best of the fest emerged and Chloé Zhao’s quasi-documentary life journey “Nomadland” took the top honors. Here’s the full list of winners:
TIFF 2020 People’s Choice Award: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland
Watch a special thank you message from Chloé here!
First Runner-up: Regina King’s One Night in Miami…
Second Runner-up: Tracey Deer’s Beans
TIFF 2020 People’s Choice Documentary Award: Michelle Latimer’s Inconvenient Indian
TIFF 2020 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award: Roseanne Liang’s Shadow In The Cloud
| IMDbPro Short Cuts Awards |
| IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Film: Naïla Guiguet’s Dustin
IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film: Paul Shkordoff’s Benjamin, Benny, Ben IMDbPro Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award: Tiffany Hsiung’s Sing Me a Lullaby IMDbPro will provide each winner with a bursary of $10,000 and a one-year membership to IMDbPro. |
| Amplify Voices Awards |
| Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Michelle Latimer’s Inconvenient Indian
Amplify Voices Award: Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple Amplify Voices Award: Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings Canada Goose presents the Amplify Voices Awards to the three best Festival feature films by under-represented filmmakers. Each winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000, made possible by Canada Goose. |
| Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award |
| The 2020 Changemaker Award winner is Kelly Fyffe-Marshall’s short film Black Bodies.
Presented by the Shawn Mendes Foundation, this award honours a Festival film that tackles issues of social change, and is selected by TIFF’s Next Wave Committee. The winner will receive a $10,000 cash prize. |
| FIPRESCI and NETPAC |
| International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Beginning Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema (NETPAC) Award: |
