The 37th Toronto International Film Festival announced its award recipients today at a reception at the IntercontinentalHotel Toronto, with SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS winning the Blackberry Peoples Choice Midnight Madness Award.
Director Martin McDonagh responded on behalf of the cast: “We were so thrilled to be a part of the Toronto Film Festival, to take part in the crazy fun of a Midnight Madness screening, and now so honored to be given the People’s Choice Award. On behalf of the cast I’d like to thank everyone who voted, and everyone involved in the festival, from the programmers to the volunteers. It felt like most democratic film festival I’ve ever been to, and we had such a blast being there.”
Written and Directed by Oscar®-winner Martin McDonagh, the comedy SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster’s (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu. Co-starring Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko and ZeljkoIvane