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'Room' wins People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival

By Karen Butler
Brie Larson attends the photocall for 'Room' at TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on Sept. 14, 2015. Photo by Christine Chew/UPI
Brie Larson attends the photocall for 'Room' at TIFF Bell Lightbox during the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on Sept. 14, 2015. Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo

TORONTO, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Room, the screen adaptation of Emma Donoghue's bestselling novel about a mother raising her young son in captivity, has won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, the movie stars Brie Larson, eight-year-old newcomer Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen and William H. Macy.

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Tom McCarthy's film Spotlight was the runner-up for the People's Choice prize for drama and Evgeny Afineevsky's Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom was honored with the People's Choice documentary award, Variety said.

Other films that generated Oscar buzz at the festival were Black Mass, Brooklyn, The Danish Girl and Truth.

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