2013 TIFF CAST Awards Announcement

For the second year running, I’ve compiled a special edition of the CAST Awards, just based on what people saw during the Toronto International Film Festival. Here are the CAST Top 10 based on the votes of 27 submitted ballots. Voters ranked up to 10 films on their ballot from top to bottom, with first choices receiving 10 points, second choices 9, etc. The Points column lists the total score for each film, Mentions indicates how many voters included it in their Top Ten, Average is the average point score, and Firsts shows how many voters chose it as their favourite TIFF film.

In the case of points ties, the film with the higher number of first-place votes is listed first, then by highest average score. Because our sample size is quite small, these “rankings” don’t actually mean much, but I thought it would give a good idea of what this particular group of festivalgoers enjoyed this year. I’m curious to see how many of these show up in our regular year-end CAST ballot and how they do.

FILM TITLE	POINTS	MENTIONS	AVERAGE	FIRSTS
1. 12 Years a Slave	65	9	7.22	3
2. The Strange Little Cat	63	7	9.0	3
3. Under the Skin	58	8	7.25	0
4. Gravity	49	6	8.17	2
5. Blue Ruin	49	9	5.44	1
6. Only Lovers Left Alive	45	7	6.43	0
7. Blue is the Warmest Colour	39	7	5.57	1
8. Manakamana	32	5	6.4	0
9. The Double	32	6	5.33	0
10. Oculus	31	4	7.75	1

Participants:

Here is a PDF with each person’s ballot and the full collated results, with a few more interesting stats included.

And for those still reading, here is my final TIFF CAST ballot. There are only 9 films because that’s all I was able to see this year:

My TIFF CAST Ballot

Club Sandwich
The Strange Little Cat
The Square
Under the Skin
Young and Beautiful
A Field in England
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Wonders
Love is the Perfect Crime

2013 TIFF CAST Awards Announcement

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