Hamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespeare drama has picked up the people’s choice award which has come to be a predictor of Oscar successChloé Zhao’s adaptation of Hamnet has won this year’s people’s choice award at the Toronto film festival.The acclaimed drama, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s...
<p>Chloé Zhao’s Shakespeare drama has picked up the people’s choice award which has come to be a predictor of Oscar success</p><p>Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/08/hamnet-movie-review-tiff">Hamnet</a> has won this year’s people’s choice award at the Toronto film festival.</p><p>The acclaimed drama, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel, stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and tells a fictionalised account of William Shakespeare and wife Agnes as they grieve for their young son.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/14/hamnet-wins-top-award-toronto-film-festival">Continue reading...</a>
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