Fresh from his Best Actor win at the Venice Film Festival, Michael Fassbender jumped a plane to make an appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Steve McQueen’s Shame. He missed out on the premiere of his other TIFF contender, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, to stick around for the prize-giving on the Lido but did make it in time for the screening of the film for which he won the award.

Shame was greeted with much the same sort of enthusiasm in Toronto that it met with in Venice, which should come as no surprise. The Venice/TIFF overlap can often up the buzz on a film coming straight from one festival to the other. By all accounts the film lives up to the hype. So can we expect a repeat? No. TIFF does not have a jury and is non-competitive.  Awards handed out at other festivals for categories such as “Best Actress” or “Best Film” do not exist at the Toronto International Film Festival. The major prize is the People’s Choice Award and is given to a feature-length film with the highest ratings as voted by the movie goers at the festival. (Last year’s winner of that prize was The King’s Speech.)

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