McDormand began her career in the Coen brothers’ debut feature Blood Simple, and has appeared in a number of the directing duo’s films over the year, including Raising Arizona, Burn After Reading and Hail, Caesar! Michelle Latimer emerged a double winner for Inconvenient Indian, a poetic reflection on the colonization of Indigenous peoples in North America. Drama featuring McDormand as a retiree forced on the road after the 2008 recession takes top honours on the Lido, while Vanessa Kirby is named best actress, Sat 12 Sep 2020 16.38 EDT Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. Face masks were required indoors and out. To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Two other Amplify Voices awards, which recognize feature films by under-represented filmmakers, went to The Disciple, by Chaitanya Tamhane, and Night of the Kings by Philippe Lacote. Her victory here follows corresponding prizes at January’s Golden Globes and February’s Baftas. All rights reserved. British actor Vanessa Kirby won best lead actress for Pieces of a Woman, a harrowing drama about the emotional fallout on a couple after their baby dies during a home birth. Nomadland wins People's Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival, What worked and what wowed the mostly virtual TIFF 2020 film fest, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. McDormand stars as Mildred Hayes, a mother whose anger at the local police force’s failure to catch her daughter’s killer prompts her to mount an unusual publicity stunt. The 2021 awards ceremony has been pushed from next February into late April as the film industry grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also appeared in the Wes Anderson comedy Moonlight Kingdom, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and the TV miniseries Olive Kitteridge. “But we’re really glad you let us come! A favourite going into the awards season, Nomadland is screening at all the major autumn film festivals in a pandemic-forged alliance involving the Venice, Toronto, New York and Telluride festivals. "It somehow feels like it is a comment on who we are and where we are right now.… But it doesn't feel like it's prescriptive. Each of the Amplify Voices winners receives $10,000. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. Frances McDormand has won the best actress prize at the 90th Academy Awards for her performance as a grieving mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. Directed by Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards is a darkly comic drama set in a fictional – and highly dysfunctional – midwestern town. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. Last modified on Tue 15 Sep 2020 04.51 EDT. Her film was the first runner-up. Canadian filmmaker Tracey Deer's coming-of-age drama Beans, set around the Oka Crisis, was the second runner-up. Several previous People's Choice winners have gone on to pick up the best-picture Oscar, including Green Book, 12 Years a Slave, and The King's Speech. “We knew that we had a very strict plan of safety measures and we were pretty sure about that, but you never know.”. The film could prove as resilient as its main character, though, and TIFF co-head Cameron Bailey praised Zhao's work for capturing "where America is and what it's going through" at this point in history. Chloe Zhao's poetic drama Nomadland has been voted as the People's Choice Award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is the second time McDormand, a five-time Academy award nominee, has picked up the best actress statuette, following a 1996 win for her performance in Fargo. The Cannes Film Festival was cancelled and other big international festivals in Toronto and New York opted to go mostly online. In addition to her two best actress Oscars, she has received three best supporting actress nominations, for Mississippi Burning (1989), Almost Famous (2001) and North Country (2006). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. Add some “good” to your morning and evening. The film centres on Chloe Grace Moretz as a Second World War pilot transporting a top-secret package while being haunted by a monstrous vision. But the TIFF People's Choice win announced Sunday helps solidify its buzz ahead of awards season. Frances McDormand: Nominee EDA Award: Best Picture: Best Director Martin McDonagh: Best Writing, Original Screenplay Martin McDonagh: Best Supporting Actor Sam Rockwell: Best Ensemble Cast Sarah Finn: Nominee EDA Special Mention Award: Actress Defying Age and Ageism Frances McDormand: Bravest Performance Frances McDormand: Amanda Awards, Norway 2018 Winner Amanda: Best … The TIFF People's Choice honour has usually carried a $15,000 prize, but organizers say no cash prize is attached this year. And we’ll see you down the road!”. • This article was amended on 15 September 2020 because an earlier version misspelled Pierfrancesco Favino’s last name as Fabino. “We were lucky to receive a lot of submissions from all over the world, and apart from a few missing titles from the Hollywood major film studios, most of the countries are represented in Venice and the quality of the lineup is really very high,” said festival director Barbera. Nomadland, a recession-era road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, has won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Frances McDormand has won the best actress prize at the 90th Academy Awards for her performance as a grieving mother in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.. Zhao and McDormand appeared by video from the United States to accept the award, as en virus-related travel restrictions made reaching the Lido in the Italian lagoon city difficult if not impossible for many Hollywood filmmakers and actors. While it’s too soon to say if the measures worked, there were no immediate reports of infections among festivalgoers and compliance with mask mandates and social distancing appeared to be high. Italy’s Pierfrancesco Favino won best lead actor for Padrenostro (Our Father), an Italian coming-of-age story that takes place after a terrorist attack in the 1970s. Chloe Zhao's poetic drama Nomadland has been voted as the People's Choice Award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival. All rights reserved. Last modified on Fri 25 May 2018 12.26 EDT. It's just a great story, beautifully told with a great feel for character and landscape.". The 60-year-old actor triumphed in a strong field that included three-time Academy award winner Meryl Streep, Lady Bird star Saoirse Ronan and British actor Sally Hawkins.

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