Hamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival | Toronto film festival 2025
Chloé Zhao’s adaptation to Hamnet won the People’s Election Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award -winning novel Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the acclaimed drama describes a fictional account for her young sons of William Shakespeare and her wife Agnes.
The award suggested the success of the future Oscar with the best painting or win with each buyer from 2011 to 2023. The adaptation of Stephen King, played by Tom Hiddleston last year, was The Life of Chuck. The film then fought at the box office after it was released this summer. In a review for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson named This is a “disappointment” and added: orum I don’t imagine that the best painting is in the office. ”
Hamnet made premiere for positive investigations at Telluride Film Festival and will be published later this year. After Nomadland in 2020, he points to Zhao’s second Human Election Award.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Rian Johnson’s Whodunnit sequel Dead Man: A Bnives Out Mystery Runners up.
The festival first introduced another option of an International People’s Selection Award won by Park Chan-Wook’s Dark Comedy Tension film.
The road between us: Ultimate Rescue won the People’s Election Award for the Documentary. The film, which tells the story of an Israeli General and Fallout since October 7, 2023, led to protests in the city and was briefly removed from the “Important Security, Legal and Programming Concerns” program before re -added. Mixed review For the Hollywood correspondent, Daniel Fenberg said, “undeniable immersive, but some“ strange film production options were “extremely simplified”.
Toronto winners come after receiving the best award at the Venice Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s family comedy father. Cate Blanchett in the film, Adam Driver and Charlotte Rampling.
