The Verge’s TIFF 2017 Awards

For industry watchers, the annual Toronto International Film Festival is one of the year’s

major cinema events. It’s closer to home and more accessible than the Venice International Film Festival (which runs around the same time and spotlights some of the same films), and because it comes so close to the year-end prestige season, many studios use it to kick off their Oscar campaigns for their major films — or get an early sense of whether to launch those campaigns at all. But Toronto’s annual awards at the end of the festival are an oddball mixed bag. They don’t carry the prestige of the big awards at Cannes or Berlin, and they don’t cover a particularly wide range. There are no acting or directing awards, and most of the categories are specific and sponsored: the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere, for instance (which this year went to Huang Hsin-Yao’s The Great Buddha), or the Grolsch People’s Choice Award (which went to Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Clearly what’s missing at Toronto are a few more awards categories, which is why our TIFF correspondents, Tasha Robinson and Bryan Bishop, decided to individually recognize some of the 50 movies they collectively saw at Toronto this year.                                                                                https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/22/16349584/tiff-2017-awards-movie-review-three-billboards-mother-mollys-game-vampire-clay