For the fifth year in a row, 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 24 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.
| FIRSTS | ||||
| 1. Moonlight | 104 | 12 | 8.67 | 7 |
| 2. La La Land | 75 | 9 | 8.33 | 4 |
| 3. Toni Erdmann | 72 | 10 | 7.2 | 2 |
| 4.Manchester By The Sea | 57 | 8 | 7.1 | 1 |
| 5. Paterson | 37 | 5 | 7.4 | 0 |
| 6. Certain Women | 37 | 6 | 6.2 | 9 |
| 7. Colossal | 34 | 4 | 8.5 | 2 |
| 8. Nocturnal Animals | 33 | 4 | 8.25 | 1 |
| 9. Personal Shopper | 32 | 6 | 5.3 | 0 |
| 10. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | 31 | 4 | 7.8 | 0 |
Participants:
- Donna from TOFilmFest (@TOFilmFest)
- Greg from TOFilmFest (@TOFilmFest)
- Polly Esther (@pollyesthergems)
- Sarah Gopaul (@SarahGopaul)
- Kurt Halfyard (@triflic)
- Philip Hamilton
- Matt Hoffman (@HoffmanOnFilm)
- Richard Iwasa (@TIFFtalk)
- Sean Kelly (@SKonMovies)
- Don Marks (@CaptFuzz)
- Norman McGlashan (@McStay12)
- James McNally (@TOscreenshots)
- Ryan McNeil (@Matinee_CA)
- Heidy Morales (@HeidyMo)
- Petula Neale (@obesacantavit)
- Marko Orlic (@marko_orlic)
- Daniel Reed (@djcrossbreeze)
- Courtney Small (@SmallMind)
- Victor Stiff (@VictorJStiff)
- Ian Stuart
- Rob Trench (@RobTrench)
- Bob Turnbull (@TheLogicalMind)
- David Voigt (@PopCulturePoet)
- Heidi Zarse (@pwnny)
And for those still reading, here is my final TIFF CAST ballot. I saw a total of 12 films this year:
My TIFF CAST Ballot
- Moonlight
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
- The Giant
- Blue Jay
- Into the Inferno
- Planetarium
- Things to Come
- ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail
- Orphan
- Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee