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TIFF People's Choice Award Winners & Runners-up

How many have you seen? Have you watched the winner of the year you were born? Check out if you have the same taste as TIFF-goers/the people of Toronto. 

Notes indicate:
• WINNER
• 2nd PLACE
• 3rd PLACE

Sorted by NEWEST winners to OLDEST

This is a list of the People's Choice Award winners and their runner-ups, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival. The winners are announced at the end of every festival based on votes by festival-goers.

The winner of this award has often later earned Academy Award nominations, to the point that the award is now considered to be effectively the 'starting gun' of the Academy Award nomination race.

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  • Hamnet
  • Frankenstein
  • Wake Up Dead Man
  • The Life of Chuck
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Anora
  • American Fiction
  • The Holdovers
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • The Fabelmans
  • Women Talking
  • Glass Onion
  • Belfast
  • Scarborough
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Nomadland
  • One Night in Miami...
  • Beans
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • Marriage Story
  • Parasite
  • Green Book
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Roma
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • I, Tonya
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • La La Land
  • Lion
  • Queen of Katwe
  • Room
  • Angry Indian Goddesses
  • Spotlight
  • The Imitation Game
  • Learning to Drive
  • St. Vincent
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Philomena
  • Prisoners
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Argo
  • Zaytoun
  • Where Do We Go Now?
  • Starbuck
  • A Separation
  • The King's Speech
  • The First Grader
  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
  • Mao’s Last Dancer
  • Micmacs
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • More than a Game
  • The Stoning of Soraya M.
  • Eastern Promises
  • Juno
  • Body of War
  • Bella
  • My Best Friend
  • Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
  • Tsotsi
  • Live and Become
  • Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Mother of Mine
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Zatoichi
  • Go Further
  • The Corporation
  • Whale Rider
  • Bowling for Columbine
  • Bend It Like Beckham
  • Amélie
  • Maya
  • Monsoon Wedding
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • The Dish
  • Innocence
  • Billy Elliot
  • American Beauty
  • Life Is Beautiful
  • The Hanging Garden
  • Shine
  • Antonia's Line
  • Priest
  • The Snapper
  • Strictly Ballroom
  • The Fisher King
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Roger & Me
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • The Princess Bride
  • The Decline of the American Empire
  • The Official Story
  • Places in the Heart
  • The Big Chill
  • Tempest
  • Chariots of Fire
  • Bad Timing
  • Best Boy
  • Girlfriends