This is the list of all major winners (in different years: «People's Choice Award», «Grolsch People's Choice Award») of the Toronto International Film Festival since 1978. In the notes: information about the number of the festival, the year of the event and the country of production of the winner.

Unrewarded Years due to canceled, or noncompetitive, or failed competitive festival issue:

• 1976, 1st Toronto — Noncompetitive
• 1977, 2nd Toronto — Noncompetitive

Multiple Winners:

• Chloé Zhao (2020, 2025)

Winners by Country:

United States – 31: (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
United Kingdom – 16: (1980, 1981, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2025)

Canada – 4: (1986, 1997, 2007, 2015)
France – 4: (1990, 1995, 2001, 2011)
Australia – 3: (1992, 1996, 2010)
Italy – 3: (1998, 2004, 2011)
Germany – 3: (2001, 2002, 2020)
Ireland – 3: (1993, 2015, 2021)
China - 2: (2000, 2018)
Hong Kong - 2: (2000, 2016)
New Zealand – 2: (2002, 2019)
South Africa – 2: (2004, 2005)

Argentina: 1985
Spain: 1988
Hungary: 1990
Netherlands: 1995
Belgium: 1995
Taiwan: 2000
Japan: 2003
Mexico: 2006
India: 2008
Lebanon: 2011
Qatar: 2011
Egypt: 2011
Czech Republic: 2019
South Korea: 2025

Info

The Toronto International Film Festival Grolsch People's Choice Award is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to the film rated as the year's most popular film with festival audiences. The award's current corporate sponsor is Grolsch; past sponsors of the award have included Cadillac. The winners of this award have 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 nominations race. In 2009, the festival introduced separate People's Choice Awards for Documentaries and Midnight Madness. In 2015, it also introduced a People's Choice Award for its satellite Canada's Top Ten festival, which was discontinued after 2018 due to TIFF's decision to switch the Canada's Top Ten program from a dedicated festival to a series of week-long theatrical screenings.

My Letterboxd lists of Toronto and Others Festival Winners:

• 50th Toronto (2025)
• 49th Toronto (2024)
• 48th Toronto (2023)
• 47th Toronto (2022)
• 46th Toronto (2021)
• 45th Toronto (2020)
• 44th Toronto (2019)

• Golden Palm — Winners of Cannes (since 1946)
• Golden Lion — Winners of Venice (since 1932)
• Golden Bear — Winners of Berlinale (since 1951)

• Sundance — Winners (since 1984)
• TIFF — Winners (since 1978)
• SXSW — Winners (since 1995)
• Tribeca — Winners (since 2002)
• Slamdance — Winners (since 1996)

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