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It’s called the Grolsch People’s Choice Award, but its street name is the will-it-win-best-picture prize. This year, audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival chose Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen in the true story of a Brooklyn bouncer who became a chauffeur for a black musician travelling across the American South in the 1960s. The film opens in theatres on Nov. 21.

Green Book joins previous winners Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, La La Land, Room and The Imitation Game, all of which became best-picture nominees at the Oscars. The last People’s Choice to win best picture was Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, from 2013.

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Runners-up in the category were If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight; and Alfonso Cuaron’s ROMA, which took the top prize at the recent Venice Film Festival.

The People’s Choice also awards prizes for documentaries and in the Midnight Madness program. Free Solo, about without-a-rope climber Alex Honnold, took the doc prize, with runners-up agri-doc The Biggest Little Farm, and #TimesUp chronicle This Changes Everything.