The award given to La La Land, according to an official press release, offers a $15,000 cash prize and custom award, sponsored by Grolsch.
This year’s winner, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, is a spectacular, crowd-pleasing musical about two star-crossed lovers — Mia (Emma Stone) and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) — trying to stake their personal and professional claims in Los Angeles.
The second runner up for this year’s prize was Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe, while Garth Davis’s Lion was named the first runner up (and got a LOT of buzz for its tearjerking nature).
Technically dubbed the Grolsch People’s Choice Award, this trophy is voted on by audiences attending screenings at the Toronto Film Festival, and has been handed out for the past 39 years.