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The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up Sunday with the coveted Grolsch People’s Choice Award going to Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi’s satire of Nazi Germany in which he plays a child’s idea of Adolf Hitler. Runners-up for the prize were Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach, and Parasite, a thriller from Korean director Bong Joon-ho that also took the Palme d’Or in Cannes this year.

Why is the People’s Choice so coveted? Well, consider that last year’s winner, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, went on to win the best-picture Oscar, while runner-up Roma from Alfonso Cuarón was a nominee and won for best foreign-language film. In fact, since 2011, every TIFF People’s Choice has been the Academy’s choice for at least a best-picture nomination.

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Along with the winners there are the losers

People’s Choice prizes in the Midnight Madness sidebar went to The Platform from Spain’s Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, with runners-up The Vast of Night by Andrew Patterson, and Blood Quantum from First Nations filmmaker Jeff Barnaby. In the documentary category, Feras Fayyad’s Syrian doctor doc The Cave took the prize, with Garin Hovannisian’s I Am Not Alone, and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Dads, as runners-up.