Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award: Midnight Madness

The Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to the film rated as the year's most popular film in the festival's "Midnight Madness" stream of underground and cult films.[1] The award was first introduced in 2009.[2]

Process

The voting process is the same as for the feature film People's Choice: at each Midnight Madness 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 Loved OnesSean Byrne[4]
DaybreakersMichael Spierig and Peter Spierig
2010Stake LandJim Mickle[5]
Fubar 2Michael Dowse
2011The RaidGareth Evans[6]
You're NextAdam Wingard
God Bless AmericaBobcat Goldthwait
2012Seven PsychopathsMartin McDonagh[7]
The BayBarry Levinson
John Dies at the EndDon Coscarelli
2013Why Don't You Play in Hell?Sion Sono[8]
OculusMike Flanagan
Witching and BitchingÁlex de la Iglesia
2014What We Do in the ShadowsTaika Waititi and Jemaine Clement[9]
TuskKevin Smith
Big GameJalmari Helander
2015Hardcore HenryIlya Naishuller[10]
The Final GirlsTodd Strauss-Schulson
Green RoomJeremy Saulnier
2016Free FireBen Wheatley[11]
The Autopsy of Jane DoeAndré Øvredal
RawJulia Ducournau
2017BodiedJoseph Kahn[12]
The Disaster ArtistJames Franco
Brawl in Cell Block 99S. Craig Zahler
2018The Man Who Feels No PainVasan Bala[13]
HalloweenDavid Gordon Green
Assassination NationSam Levinson
2019The PlatformGalder Gaztelu-Urrutia[14]
The Vast of NightAndrew Patterson
Blood QuantumJeff Barnaby
2020Shadow in the CloudRoseanne Liang[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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