Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Hamnet has won this year’s people’s choice award at the Toronto film festival.

The acclaimed drama, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and tells a fictionalised account of William Shakespeare and wife Agnes as they grieve for their young son. Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal excel in stately Shakespeare drama with overwhelming finale Read more

The award has come to suggest future Oscar success with every recipient from 2011 to 2023 scoring either a best picture nomination or a win. Last year’s winner was Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck , starring Tom Hiddleston. The film later struggled at the box office upon release this summer. In a review for Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson c

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