TIFF 2024: ‘The Lifetime of Chuck’ wins Individuals’s Alternative Award

Tom Hiddleston attends the premiere of ‘The Lifetime of Chuck’ in the course of the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, on September 06, in Toronto.
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The Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition’s Individuals’s Alternative Award went to The Lifetime of Chuck, handing Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation one of many most-watched prizes of the autumn movie pageant circuit.

The award for The Lifetime of Chuck was introduced on Sunday (September 15, 2024) as North American’s largest movie pageant drew to a detailed. The Lifetime of Chuck, based mostly on King’s 2020 novella of the identical identify, stars Tom Hiddleston as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, an atypical man dwelling via apocalyptic cataclysms. Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Jacob Tremblay co-star.

TIFF’s Individuals’s Alternative Award is considered a dependable Oscar harbinger. Since 2012, each winner of the pageant’s prime prize has gone on to be nominated for greatest image on the Academy Awards. Final 12 months, Twine Jefferson’s American Fiction gained, and went on to be a serious awards contender.

However The Lifetime of Chuck might check that observe report. The movie is up on the market and would not but have distribution. It may very well be acquired and rapidly readied for launch this fall, or it would find yourself a 2025 launch. The Lifetime of Chuck drew combined — although largely constructive critiques — out of Toronto, although audiences had been clearly charmed by the uplifting drama.

Runners-up for the Individuals’s Alternative Award, which is voted on by pageant attendees, had been each movies that first premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition in Could. The primary was Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez. The second runner-up was Sean Baker’s Anora, the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.

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The viewers award for prime documentary went to Mike Downie’s The Tragically Hip: No Costume Rehearsal. Within the pageant’s Midnight Insanity part, the prize went to Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.