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| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Founded | 1976; 47 years ago |
| Awards | People's Choice Award |
| Language | International |
| Website | tiff |
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organization behind the film festival is also a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre, located in Downtown Toronto.
The TIFF People's Choice Award - which is based on audience balloting - has emerged as an indicator of success during awards season, especially at the Academy Awards. Past recipients of this award include Oscar-winning films, such as Chariots of Fire (1981), Life Is Beautiful (1998), American Beauty (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), La La Land (2016), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Green Book (2018), Jojo Rabbit (2019), Nomadland (2020), Belfast (2021) and American Fiction (2023).
TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and lasts for eleven days. The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 5 through 15, 2024.[1]
As of 2022[update], the festival's CEO is Cameron Bailey.[2]
- ^ "TIFF 2024: Amy Adams, Elton John and Lupita Nyong'o films lead lineup as Toronto festival aims for post-strike comeback". The Globe and Mail. June 18, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2024.
- ^ "Cameron Bailey appointed CEO of Toronto International Film Festival" Archived January 25, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, November 30, 2021.