“Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao’s drama about William Shakespeare’s marriage and the dying of their 11-year-old son, gained the Individuals’s Selection Award on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition on Sunday, placing it on an enviable monitor to Academy Awards rivalry.
Winners of the highest honor at TIFF have traditionally virtually all the time gone on to land a best-picture Oscar nomination. That was the case yearly since 2012, till the streak was seemingly snapped final 12 months when “The Life of Chuck” gained the award. Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation wasn’t launched till the next June, and is not anticipated to determine into the Oscar race.
“Hamnet,” starring Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare, has drawn an particularly emotional response in its screenings on the Telluride Movie Competition and at TIFF. The movie, tailored from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, is about how grief, following the dying of their son, Hamnet, could have impressed Shakespeare’s biggest tragedy, “Hamlet.”
The movie, which Focus Options will launch in theaters Nov. 27, is prone to return Zhao and her two stars to the Academy Awards. Zhao’s 2020 drama “Nomadland” gained greatest image and greatest director for Zhao. It, too, gained the Individuals’s Selection Award in Toronto.
Competition attendees vote for Individuals’s Selection Award. The runners-up had been a pair of Netflix releases: Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and Rian Johnson’s ”Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.”
The viewers award for worldwide movie went to Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice.” Within the pageant’s Midnight Insanity part, the viewers prize went to Matt Johnson “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.” The prize within the documentary class was awarded to Barry Avrich’s “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue.”
