TORONTO: ‘The King’s Speech’, ‘Beautiful Boy’, And ‘Incendies’ Win Top Fest Prizes

A Toronto International Film Festival that will be best remembered for the comeback of the independent acquisitions marketplace culminated today in festival awards. The Tom Hooper-directed The King’s Speech was awarded the Cadillac People’s Choice Award, which is the festival’s audience award, based on ballots collected after each screening. The picture, which stars Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, came in with The Weinstein Company as a distributor, and leaves the festival a bonafide Oscar season contender.  Runner-up for the audience prize was the Justin Chadwick-directed First Grader.

The Prize of the International Critics for the Discovery program went to director Shawn Ku for Beautiful Boy, a searing drama that stars Michael Sheen and Maria Bello as estranged parents of a college student who goes on a murderous campus rampage before committing suicide. The parents go through stages of guilt and denial as they attempt to process an unimaginable tragedy. Said the jury: “This film shows its audience that in a world of chaos and insanity, humanity is the only key to life.”

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We’ve added screencaps to the gallery for Austin’s first movie, Durango Kids.

You can check out all the images here:
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Check out the new image they’ve put on the official site for Beautiful Boy.

The film has now also been selected for the Tokyo International Film Fesitval as well as San Sebastian and Toronto. Don’t forget to check out the trailer too.

Check out the trailer for Austin’s new movie, Beautiful Boy. It’s showing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12th.

It looks amazing. Very powerful performances from Maria Bello and Michael Sheen, we can’t wait to see it.

We recently got in contact with Austin regarding his new film, Beautiful Boy, which is showing at the Toronto Film Festival on September 12th. Austin spoke briefly about his role:

“I play a writer and Maria Bello is a proof reader. We are working together when her family experiences a life changing situation, which in turn causes our relationship to change.”

He also mentioned that the film will hopefully be released worldwide so keep an eye out for updates. We’ll post of any release dates we hear of.

It has been confirmed that Austin has joined the cast of LOL, a remake of the French box office hit, Laughing Out Loud.

Austin will be playing a heart throb maths teacher called Mr Ross.

The basic plot of the film revolves around a 15-year-old who, after being dumped by her boyfriend, sets her sights on his best friend. The film also stars Demi Moore, Miley Cyrus and Ashley Greene amongst many other big names. For more information on the film, visit here.

As soon as we know more, you’ll know more.

Austin’s most recent movie, Beautiful Boy, is appearing at the Toronto Film Festival on September 12th, 2010. If you live in the Toronto area make sure you get down there and support Austin and his new movie, also starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.

Beautiful Boy is about the parents of a teenage boy who commits a mass school shooting at his high school before then taking his own life.

For more information on the movie, visit IMDB. For more information on the Toronto Film Festival visit here.