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Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award: Documentaries

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In other key awards handed out on Sunday afternoon (17), Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country claimed the Toronto Platform Prize, while Joseph Kahn's Bodied won the Grolsch People's Choice Midnight Madness Award. Agnès Varda and JR's Faces Places took the Grolsch People's Choice Documentary
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The voting process is the same as for the feature film People's Choice: at each documentary film screening, attendees are invited to "vote" for the film by rating it on their ticket stubs and leaving the stubs in voting boxes outside the theatre after the show.
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to the film rated as the year's most popular documentary film with festival audiences. The award was first introduced in 2009; prior to its introduction, documentary films were eligible for the
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After the award is announced, the festival offers a repeat screening of the winner at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on the final day of the festival.
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Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award for Documentaries
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Chris Knight, "And the winner is ...; La La Land takes bellwether award".
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Bruce Kirkland, "Benedict Cumberbatch film takes audience prize at TIFF".
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Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award: Documentaries
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No runners-up named due to the reduced lineup in light of the
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Jim Slotek, "TIFF 2015: 'Room' wins People's Choice Award".
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Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award
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Index

Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award
2009
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Leanne Pooley
Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore
2010
Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Sturla Gunnarsson
Nostalgia for the Light
Patricio Guzman
2011
The Island President
Jon Shenk
First Position
Bess Kargman
Pearl Jam 20
Cameron Crowe
2012
Artifact
Jared Leto
Storm Surfers 3D
Christopher Nelius
Justin McMillan
Revolution
Rob Stewart
2013
The Square (Al-Midan)
Jehane Noujaim

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