12 Years a Slave wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto Film Festival

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave has won the ‘People’s Choice Award’ at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch, secured this year’s prize ahead of runners-up Philomena and Prisoners.

The winners of the Toronto ‘People’s Choice Award’ have often gone on to secure a nomination for ‘Best Picture’ at the Academy Awards the following year.

Previous winners of the prize include Silver Linings Playbook, The King’s Speech and Slumdog Millionaire.

12 Years a Slave tells the true story of Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free man sold into slavery and made to work on a Louisiana plantation for 12 years.

Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Dwight Henry, Quvenzhane Wallis, Lupita Nyongo, Scoot McNairy, Michael Kenneth Williams and Garret Dillahunt also feature in the star-studded lineup.

12 Years a Slave will get a limited release in the US on October 18, and will arrive in the UK on January 24, 2014.

Read more. Thanks Nikki.

1 Comment

  1. This is a great honor. Hope it keeps going like this all through awards season.

    On a secondary note, I am in mourning because of the hair, but I have to admit, he looks really good and like a kid. But, I loved his hair long.

    Thanks for the updates!!

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