{"id":66807,"date":"2013-09-15T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2013\/09\/15\/steve-mcqueens-12-years-a-slave-wins-audience-award-at-toronto\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T08:59:19","slug":"steve-mcqueens-12-years-a-slave-wins-audience-award-at-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/steve-mcqueens-12-years-a-slave-wins-audience-award-at-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave’ Wins Audience Award at Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave’ Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film Fest<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

September 15, 2013<\/p>\n

Source: THR<\/a><\/p>\n

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12 Years a Slave<\/strong> was named the top audience prize winner at the Toronto International Film Festival <\/strong>on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Steve McQueen<\/strong>-directed film now numbers among previous TIFF audience award winners like Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty<\/strong> and Silver Linings Playbook<\/strong> that received a lift in Toronto on their way to Academy Awards glory.<\/p>\n

Fox Searchlight will release 12 Years a Slave in theaters on Oct. 18. The film had its world premiere on September 6 at the Princess of Wales Theater.<\/p>\n

People’s choice Midnight Madness award went to director Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell?<\/strong>. The people’s choice documentary award went to Jehane Noujaim<\/strong>‘s film The Square<\/strong>, which looked at recent unrest in Cairo.<\/p>\n

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Director Anup Singh<\/strong>‘s Qissa<\/strong> was honored with the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere.<\/p>\n

The FIPRESCI jury prize for best special presentation sidebar film went to Pawel Pawlikowski<\/strong>‘s Ida from Poland<\/strong>. The FIPRESCI Discovery award was given to The Amazing Catfish<\/strong>, directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Director Alan Zweig<\/strong> claimed the honor for best Canadian feature film for When Jews Were Funny.<\/p>\n

The best Canadian short film prize was awarded to Walter Woodman, Patrick Cederberg<\/strong> for Noah and best Canadian first feature went to Shayne Ehman<\/strong> and Seth Scriver<\/strong> for Asphalt Watches.<\/p>\n

All the Wrong Reasons,<\/strong> which starred the late Glee actor Cory Monteith, was previously announced as the winner of the Discovery award.<\/p>\n

The Toronto awards luncheon is held the Intercontinental Hotel, with festival director Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey presenting the jury and audience awards.<\/p>\n

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