Runner-Up Award for First Grader

Monday, September 20, 2010 at 12:29PM
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TIFF 2010

New York Magazine

The King’s Speech - the Colin Firth/Geoffrey Rush drama about a king’s attempts to overcome his stutter - has won the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival, confirming its status as an Oscar frontrunner. Runner-up for the audience prize was the Justin Chadwick-directed First Grader. The two most recent winners of the prize were Precious last year and Slumdog Millionaire in 2008.

Article originally appeared on The First Grader (http://www.thefirstgrader-themovie.com/).