Taylor Swift Set For Toronto Film Festival Sit-Down Centered On ‘All Too Well: The Short Film’

The People’s Choice Award from the just wrapped 2022 Toronto International Film Festival has gone to Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans.  First Runner Up is Canada’s own Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. And Second Runner Up was Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The Documentary Award went to Black Ice, and the Midnight Madness winner was Weird: The Al Yankovich Story             .

People’s Choice Award: “The Fabelmans,” Steven SpielbergFirst Runner-up: “Women Talking,” Sarah PolleySecond Runner-up: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” Rian JohnsonPeople’s Choice Documentary Award: “Black Ice,” Hubert DavisFirst Runner-up: “Maya and the Wave,” Stephanie JohnsSecond Runner-up: “752 Is Not a Number,” Babak PayamiMidnight Madness People’s Choice Award: “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” Eric AppelFirst Runner-up: “Pearl,” Ti WestSecond Runner-up: “The Blackening,” Tim StoryPlatform Jury Prize: “Riceboy Sleeps,” Anthony ShimShawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award: “Something You Said Last Night,” Luis De FilippisAmplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: “To Kill a Tiger,” Nisha PahujaAmplify Voices Award: “Leonor Will Never Die,” Martika Ramirez EscobarAmplify Voices Award: “While We Watched,” Vinay ShuklaIMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Film: “Snow in December,” Lkhagvadulam Purev-OchirHonorable Mention: “Airhostess 737,” Thanasis NeofotistosIMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film: “Simo,” Azziz ZorombaHonorable Mention: “Same Old,” Lloyd Lee Choi IMDbPro Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award: “Nanitic,” Carol NguyenNETPAC Award: “Sweet As,” Jub ClercFIPRESCI Prize: “A Gaza Weekend,” Basil Kahlil

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age story “The Fabelmans” took home the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award, providing a major boost to its awards season chances. TIFF’s People’s Choice Award is one of the most reliable predictors of eventual Oscar success.

Toronto Film Festival returned in spectacular fashion after two years of virtual premieres or limited capacity screenings. The parties were packed (which may lead to COVID outbreaks down the road, but… that’s showbiz?), the red carpets were glittering and the atmosphere was electric, bordering on euphoric, as director Rian Johnson’s acclaimed sequel “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story,” Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” and the Harry Styles-led romantic drama “My Policeman” debuted to blockbuster-starved audiences in Canada. Hollywood seemed eager to make up for lost time. So, as the curtain comes down on TIFF, here’s a look back at the major trends and takeaways from the 10-day festival.

Batman universe called The People’s Joker has been pulled from Toronto International Film Festival.The film, which reimagines the character of the Joker through a transgender origin story, had one public screening before the rest were cancelled over “rights issues”.A message on the TIFF ticketing page reads: “The filmmaker has withdrawn this film due to rights issues. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Swift's re-released version of Red. The rumors have swirled around this song for years, but after the release of the short film All Too Well and the way Swift stammered through an interview question at the Toronto International Film Festival, some long-standing fan theories about a certain scarf appear to be closer to truth than ever. In the song, Swift mentions the scarf that fans have long obsessed over with speculation that it could metaphorically represent the singer losing her virginity to Gyllenhaal.

Emma Corrin just gets it. The actor delivered drama at the Toronto International Film Festival, stepping out in nothing but a high-cut bodysuit.

Brent Lang Executive Editor It was supposed to be all about the movies. But even here at the Toronto International Film Festival, an ocean away from the United Kingdom, the death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II has loomed large. It has provided an opportunity for festival organizers, filmmakers and talent to reflect on the life and legacy of a monarch whose 70-year reign ranks as the longest in her country’s history. That’s partly due to Canada’s status as a member of the British Commonwealth, but it’s also because the festival is such an international A-list affair, one that attracts movie stars and directors who have often had personal encounters with the queen.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Fragments of the Last Will,” a post-WWII prisoner of war drama, has been set as the opening title of next month’s Tokyo International Film Festival. It is directed by Zeze Takahisa. The festival, which runs Oct. 24-Nov. 2, 2022, will close with “Living,” directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Bill Nighy. The film is a reworking of Kurosawa Akira’s 1952 classic “Ikiru,” with a revised screenplay by Ishiguro Kazuo. “Fragments” is based on the true story of Yamamoto Hatao, a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and children in Japan and for eleven years fought to keep the light of hope alive for his fellow POWs.

She never goes out of style! Taylor Swift looked golden like daylight as she walked the red carpet with Sadie Sink at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022.

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UPDATED w/TIFF Statement: Sparta, the German-Romanian drama from Austrian director Ulrich Seidl that is in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the Toronto Film Festival, has been pulled from the festival lineup.

Brendan Fraser gives a cheeky smile while arriving at JFK airport in New York City on Tuesday afternoon (September 6).

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s been no lack of drama at this year’s Venice Film Festival thanks to the behind-the-scenes tabloid gossip circulating around Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” which premiered on Monday. So, it’s only fitting that Harry Styles landed in Venice in a dramatic fit. Styles, who stars as the cunning suburban husband to Florence Pugh’s Alice in the retro thriller, arrived at the Venice Airport sporting a ’70s-inspired ensemble courtesy of Gucci, who Styles has been in collaboration with since last June. He sported the Italian label’s double-breasted jacket in burgundy, monogram sweater vest, flare jeans and Adidas x Gucci Gazelle sneakers.