Veteran Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s next directorial ‘The Fabelmans’ is set to release in theatres on 23rd November this year. Recently, the film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022 (TIFF) where it bagged the People’s Choice Award as the most popular film with festival audiences. And the second runner-up is none other than Rian Johnson’s highly anticipated ‘Knives Out’ sequel ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’, which will start streaming on the Netflix OTT platform from 23rd December.
An interesting statistic related to TIFF’s People’s Choice Award and the Oscars has moved both these films – ‘The Fabelmans’ and ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ one step closer towards their potential Oscar wins and a good head start for the Oscar 2023 race.
And the unique correlation between TIFF and Oscars is that several films in the past which have won the People’s Choice Award at TIFF had eventually also won the coveted ‘Best Picture’ award at the Oscars.
For instance, Sam Mendes’ dark comedy drama ‘American Beauty’ (1999) had won the TIFF People’s Choice Award and the film had also won the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar. Similarly, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire’, Colin Firth starrer ‘The King’s Speech’, Steven McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave’, Peter Farrelly’s ‘Green Book’, and Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’, had all won the ‘Best Picture’ Oscars after bagging the TIFF People’s Choice Award.
Moreover, some films which were the first or second runners-up for the TIFF People’s Choice Award in the past, were also able to win the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar Awards. Those movies were Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’, Tom McCarthy’s ‘Spotlight’, and most recently Bong Joon-ho’s black comedy thriller ‘Parasite’.
So, as per the interesting correlation / trend between the TIFF People’s Choice Award and the ‘Best Picture’ Oscar Award, both Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ and Rian Johnson’s ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ hold a good chance to win the ‘Best Picture’ Academy Award next year. That is, in case one of the films follow the same trend as we have mentioned above. Let’s see if history repeats itself.