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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which sets the tone for the Oscar season, picked British actor-director Kenneth Branagh’s family drama ‘Belfast’ for the People’s Choice Award on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The road drama ‘Nomadland,’ which won the best-picture Oscar this year, was also the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto film festival last year.<\/p>\n
Other notable films which won the TIFF top award and then went on to win the Oscar are ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, ‘Green Book’, ‘12 Years a Slave’ and ‘The King’s Speech’.<\/p>\n
Set in the late 1960s’ Northern Ireland wracked by sectarian violence, the black-and-white ‘Belfast’ is Branagh’s “most personal” film as he spent his childhood in the city of Belfast.<\/p>\n
This family drama captures the coming-of-age story of Buddy (played by Jude Hill), trying to escape the violence and his working-class life.<\/p>\n
Accepting the award, Branagh said he was “deeply grateful” for the honour.<\/p>\n
“That so many film lovers connected with ‘Belfast’ so profoundly was absolutely overwhelming to myself and Jamie Dornan, and we talked about it long into a memorable night of laughter and tears in your great city,” he said.<\/p>\n
The British filmmaker said, “Our first showing of Belfast at TIFF was one of the most memorable experiences of my entire career.”<\/p>\n
The Canadian family drama ‘Scarborough’ and Jane Campion’s western ‘The Power of the Dog,’ with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role were the two runners-up.<\/p>\n
Nithin Lukose’s Mayalalam film ‘Paka’ (River of Blood), Ritwik Pareek’s ‘Dud Dug’ and Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ also premiered at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n
The 10-day film festival ends on Sunday. (IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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