For the first time, a film has won both the audience award at Sundance and Toronto.
Precious, by
Lee Daniels, took home TIFF's audience award this weekend. Unlike other festivals, at Toronto the audience award is the top honor, and has previously been won by
Hotel Rwanda,
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
Slumdog Millionaire. Meanwhile, in the new audience award set up specifically for the genre-based Midnight Madness program at