NEW YORK: Martin McDonaugh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” took the Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award on Sunday, an early bell-weather for Hollywood’s coming awards season.
Piers Handling, chief executive and director of the festival, announced the awards for the 42nd annual Toronto festival.
The People’s Choice Award, voted on by festival audiences, went to the British playwright’s third feature film, which stars Frances McDormand as a mother who goes to war with police in her town after her daughter’s murder.
“As much as we had a lovely time in Canada, and as much it seemed like the audiences had a good time, too, you never really know if a story that is as heartfelt but also as outrageous and funny and unusual as ours has really connected to, you know, real people,” said McDonaugh (“In Bruges,” “Seven Psychopaths“), said in a statement. “So it’s brilliant to hear that it has.”
Not since 2007’s “Eastern Promises” has a Toronto People’s Choice winner failed to score an Academy Awards best-picture nomination. Many People’s Choice winners have also gone on to win the Academy Awards’ top honor, including “12 Years a Slave,” “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”
“La La Land” last year took Toronto’s big prize but Damien Chazelle’s musical ultimately lost to “Moonlight” for best picture.
Fox Searchlight will release “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on Nov. 10.
This year’s runner up went to Craig Gillespie’s Tonya Harding tale “I, Tonya,” starring Margot Robbie as the former Olympic ice skater. In one of the festival’s biggest sales, “I, Tonya” was acquired by Neon and 30West for $5 million.
The second runner up was “Call Me By Your Name,” Luca Guadagnino’s Italy-set coming-of-age story.
That film, which also drew raves at the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, is due for release Nov. 24 from Sony Pictures Classics.
McDonaugh’s ‘Three Billboards’ wins TIFF audience award
McDonaugh’s ‘Three Billboards’ wins TIFF audience award
Harry Styles announces 2026 global tour: See the dates
- e news arrives a week after Styles revealed his fourth studio album will arrive March 6. Titled “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally”
NEW YORK: Harry Styles is getting back out on the road. The English musician announced his “Together, Together” tour on Thursday. It’s a 50-date run made up of residencies in Europe, the UK, Brazil, Mexico, the US and Australia.
Styles’ tour launches May 16 with six nights in Amsterdam, followed by six nights in London, two in São Paulo, two in Mexico City, 30 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, two in Melbourne and two in Sydney, where it will conclude in December.
Openers include Robyn, Shania Twain, Jorja Smith, Jamie xx, Fousheé, and more.
There are a few pre-sale opportunities. The general sale for São Paulo begins Wednesday and the Mexico City sale begins Jan. 29.
The general sale for Amsterdam, London, Melbourne, Sydney, and many New York dates begins Jan. 30. The last New York dates, Oct. 10 to 31, will go on sale Feb. 4.
Styles is no stranger to residencies. During his “Love on Tour” in 2022, he did a 15-night stint at Madison Square Garden, which Ticketmaster labeled “the highest-grossing single engagement in the venue’s history.”
The “Together, Together” tour news arrives a week after Styles revealed his long-awaited, fourth studio album will arrive March 6.
Titled “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” the album is Styles’ first full-length project in four years. It follows the 2022, critically acclaimed synth pop record “Harry’s House,” which earned the former One Direction star the top prize of album of the year at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
The cover for “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” features the 31-year-old artist in a T-shirt and jeans at night, standing underneath a shimmering disco ball hung outside.
