'Imitation Game' Won 2014 TIFF's People's Choice Award
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Audience who watched the public screening would drop their ticket stub into a box when they felt the movie was worth the award.

AceShowbiz - "The Imitation Game" essentially won Grolsch People's Choice Award at the 38th Toronto Film Festival. This only means that the drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch is at greater chance to enter the Oscar race next year.

Directed by Morten Tyldum, the WWII-era drama follows the life of British mathematician/computer scientist Alan Turing and his breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II that ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. Keira Knightley also stars in the film as fellow mathematician in his team and his brief fiancee.

The People's Choice Award is voted for by press, industry and punters alike, those who watch a public screening and then drop their ticket stub into a box if they feel the movie should win. Five of the six People's Choice winners in the past had landed Best Picture nomination at the Oscars including "Slumdog Millionaire" and "12 Years a Slave" which eventually went home with the trophy.

The TIFF organizers also announced other winners on Sunday, September 14. The People's Choice prize in the documentary category went to Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka's "Beats of the Antonov". The Midnight Madness award, which honors action, horror, shock and fantasy genres, went to "What We Do in the Shadows".

Jeffrey St. Jules' "Bang Bang Baby" went home with City of Toronto prize for Canadian debut features while Maxime Giroux's "Felix and Meira" was awarded the Canada Goose for best Canadian feature film.

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