“Silver Linings Playbook,†the latest film from David O. Russell, received the BlackBerry People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie, based on a novel by Matthew Quick, stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence as unstable Philadelphians.
The prize, which has gone in the past to “The King's Speech,†“Slumdog Millionaire†and “American Beauty,†can sometimes be a predictor of a film's Academy Award potential.
People's Choice Awards were also given to Martin McDonagh's ensemble comedy “Seven Psychopaths,†in the festival's Midnight Madness section; and in the documentary category, to “Artifact,†about the band 30 Seconds to Mars and its record-label struggles.
Jury prizes were given for best Canadian feature, Xavier Dolan's drama “Laurence Anyways,†and best Canadian first feature: a tie between Brandon Cronenberg's body horror thriller, “Antiviral,†and Jason Buxton's high school drama, “Blackbird.â€
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