"The Imitation Game" won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday, capping the 10-day festival that included premieres and gala screenings of films such as "The Theory of Everything," "Wild," and "Foxcatcher."

The Weinstein Co.'s "The Imitation Game" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as mathematician Alan Turing, who led the effort to break the Enigma code during World War II and was later persecuted by the government for his homosexuality. The...