{"id":6325,"date":"2016-09-18T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/la-la-land-wins-top-prize-at-toronto-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T05:27:59","slug":"la-la-land-wins-top-prize-at-toronto-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/la-la-land-wins-top-prize-at-toronto-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"La La Land wins top prize at Toronto Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling\u2019s movie La La Land has scooped the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p> Director Damien Chazelle\u2019s modern day musical \u2013 which has been the sensation of the film festival circuit \u2013 received the coveted People\u2019s Choice Award, which is determined by audience voting. <\/p>\n<p> Toronto\u2019s audience award has previously been a harbinger of awards season success. Past winners include 12 Years A Slave and The King\u2019s Speech.<\/p>\n<p><figure><img src=\"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1474227091-03a23c4f719f0cb42d4e71305bcbd971-600x337.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling (Evan Agostini\/AP\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p> La La Land is expected to be a top contender for the Best Picture Oscar.<\/p>\n<p> The film stars Emma as an aspiring actress in Los Angeles who, in between soul-crushing auditions, meets a jazz pianist (Ryan) trying to stay true to the music he\u2019s devoted himself to.<\/p>\n<p> Since premiering at the Venice Film Festival, La La Land has been an answer to those who say movies aren\u2019t what they once were.<\/p>\n<p><figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBUXcNTjviI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p> Damien wrote the script around six years ago, but his pleas to make the film went unanswered until his 2014 breakthrough, the Oscar-winning Whiplash, about an aspiring jazz drummer.<\/p>\n<p> The prize for the festival\u2019s Platform sidebar of international films was awarded to Chilean director Pablo Larra\u00c3\u00adn for Jackie, the Jacqueline Kennedy biopic starring Natalie Portman.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>#TIFF16 Platform Prize presented by Jury Brian De Palma, Zhang Ziyi, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: JACKIE by Pablo Larra\u00c3\u00adn \u00f0\u009f\u008e\u0096 pic.twitter.com\/VTSS6OhDSb<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 18, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Raoul Peck won the People\u2019s Choice documentary award for I Am Not Your Negro, which tracks the lives and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>#TIFF16 @Grolsch People&#039;s Choice Documentary Award \u00f0\u009f\u008f\u0085: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO by Raoul Peck \u00f0\u009f\u008e\u00ac pic.twitter.com\/lM1dlBDmsg<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 18, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling\u2019s movie La La Land has scooped the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Director Damien Chazelle\u2019s modern day musical \u2013 which has been the sensation of the film festival circuit \u2013 received the coveted People\u2019s Choice Award, which is determined by audience voting. Toronto\u2019s audience award has previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}