Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award: Documentaries

The Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award for Documentaries is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to the film rated as the year's most popular documentary film with festival audiences.[1] The award was first introduced in 2009;[2] prior to its introduction, documentary films were eligible for the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award.

Process

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 leaving their ticket stubs in voting boxes outside the theatre after the show.[3]

Winners
YearFilmDirector(s)Ref
2009The Topp Twins: Untouchable GirlsLeanne Pooley[4]
Capitalism: A Love StoryMichael Moore
2010Force of Nature: The David Suzuki MovieSturla Gunnarsson[5]
Nostalgia for the LightPatricio Guzman
2011The Island PresidentJon Shenk[6]
First PositionBess Kargman
Pearl Jam 20Cameron Crowe
2012ArtifactJared Leto[7]
Storm Surfers 3DChristopher Nelius and Justin McMillan
RevolutionRob Stewart
2013The Square (Al-Midan)Jehane Noujaim[8]
Hi-Ho Mistahey!Alanis Obomsawin
Beyond the EdgeLeanne Pooley
2014Beats of the AntonovHajooj Kuka[9]
Do I Sound Gay?David Thorpe
Seymour: An IntroductionEthan Hawke
2015Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for FreedomEvgeny Afineevsky[10]
This Changes EverythingAvi Lewis
Al Purdy Was HereBrian D. Johnson
2016I Am Not Your NegroRaoul Peck[11]
Abacus: Small Enough to JailSteve James
Before the FloodFisher Stevens
2017Faces PlacesAgnès Varda and JR[12]
Long Time RunningJennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!Morgan Spurlock
2018Free SoloE. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin[13]
This Changes EverythingTom Donahue
The Biggest Little FarmJohn Chester
2019The CaveFeras Fayyad[14]
I Am Not AloneGarin Hovannisian
DadsBryce Dallas Howard
2020Inconvenient IndianMichelle Latimer[15]
No runners-up named due to the reduced lineup in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

References
  1. Walmsley, Katie (September 2009). "Oprah flick 'Precious' wins top award at Toronto". CNN. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
  2. "TIFF lineup expands with horror, music". Telegraph-Journal, July 22, 2009.
  3. "Choose wisely: At the Toronto International Film Festival, how do you ensure that the people have actually spoken?". The Globe and Mail, September 7, 2017.
  4. "2009 Toronto International Film Festival Winners". tiff.net, October 11, 2013.
  5. "The King's Speech is People's Choice; Incendies voted best Canadian picture". Vancouver Sun, September 20, 2010.
  6. "Lebanese film wins TIFF's top prize; Starbuck is People's Choice runner-up". National Post, September 19, 2011.
  7. "Silver Linings Playbook writes surprise TIFF ending". Toronto Star, September 17, 2012.
  8. Bruce Kirkland, "Slave tops TIFF winners". Toronto Sun, September 16, 2013.
  9. Bruce Kirkland, "Benedict Cumberbatch film takes audience prize at TIFF". Toronto Sun, September 15, 2014.
  10. Jim Slotek, "TIFF 2015: 'Room' wins People's Choice Award". Winnipeg Free Press, September 20, 2015.
  11. Chris Knight, "And the winner is ...; La La Land takes bellwether award". National Post, September 19, 2016.
  12. Jeremy Kay (17 September 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' wins Toronto audience award". Screen Daily. 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 Award.
  13. "'Green Book' boosts awards season prospects with TIFF audience award win". Screen Daily, September 16, 2018.
  14. Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Taika Waititi's 'Jojo Rabbit' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 15, 2019.
  15. Etan Vlessing, "Toronto: Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award". The Hollywood Reporter, September 20, 2020.
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