Toronto International Film Festival – Every Special Presentations Winner in History

Toronto International Film Festival 2017

6.5

The Motive El autor

Manuel Martín Cuenca

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2016

6.9

I Am Not Madame Bovary Wo bu shi Pan Jinlian

Feng Xiaogang

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2015

6.1

Desierto

Jonas Cuaron "For using pure cinema to create a strong physical sensation of being trapped in a vast space and hunted down by hatred in its most primal form, FIPRESCI presents the prize in the Special Presentations programme to Desierto by Jonás Cuarón."

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2014

6.6

Time Out of Mind

Oren Moverman "For Oren Moverman's sensitive and human depiction of homelessness, and Richard Gere's remarkable performance."

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2013

7.4

Ida

Pawel Pawlikowski "The prize is awarded to Ida for a layered and humane exploration of issues of religious and personal identity. With its very original, austere yet poetic imagery it brings alive the gravity and grimness of history."

Winner

All nominees

Rock the Casbah Rock the Casbah

Toronto International Film Festival 2012

7.3

In the House Dans la maison / In the House

Francois Ozon "For achieving an exquisitely crafted entertainment that blurs the distinction between the storyteller and the story told, and that assuages with playful complexity the tragedies of life with the consolations of art."

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2011

The First Man Le premier homme

Gianni Amelio "Gianni Amelio's realization of an unfinished Albert Camus novel explores the legacy of colonialism with the tenderness of a memoir and the unflinching gaze of a war reporter."

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2010

6.8

l'amour fou L'amour fou

Pierre Thoretton This film portrays the poignant, emotional and cinematic expression of the life and times of an internationally renowned artist, exploring his stark loneliness and artistic overtones

Winner

Toronto International Film Festival 2009