'The Imitation Game' Wins TIFF People's Choice Award; Watch 40-Minute Press Conference For The Film

Ten day of movies (and movies and movies and movies) are now over, with the Toronto International Film Festival closing things off today with its annual awards brunch. And as always, it's the People's Choice Award that can see the Oscar fortunes of a movie start glowing, and set a path for the months to come.

And this year, TIFF ticket buyers voted with their ticket stubs for "The Imitation Game" (read our review) for the big prize. While this is obviously a big win for The Weinstein Company, who spent seven million dollars snapping up the rights early this year, it'll be interesting to see how this shapes the conversation in the Toronto versus Telluride "premiere" battle. While the Benedict Cumberbatch starring film got its World Premiere in Colorado, the win here will undoubtedly be the lede in any Oscar talk. So does it really matter that it screened elsewhere first?

Certainly, on the ground in Toronto, it was the movie that rose to the top of the...