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64-555: The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019. It was released in a limited release on October 4, and streaming on Netflix three weeks later. Dolemite Is My Name received positive reception from both audiences and film critics, with praise for Murphy's performance and the humor. It was chosen by both the National Board of Review and Time magazine as one of

128-510: A Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list. This list is produced from a wider poll of film industry professionals and academics throughout Canada, separately from the annual top-ten list. The festival's major prize, the TIFF People's Choice Award , is given to a feature-length film. It is not a juried prize, but is given to the film with the highest ratings as voted by the TIFF-going populace. It

192-526: A biopic about Edward D. Wood, Jr. Rather than mocking him, they identified with the obscure filmmaker and his struggles. Tim Burton loved their script Ed Wood and agreed to direct it. They wrote the screenplay in six weeks. The film won two Academy Awards and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. They did uncredited rewrites on Burton's next film Mars Attacks! , inventing

256-404: A club. Asking the club owner for a comedy time slot, he is turned down. One day, homeless man Ricco wanders into the record store, making loud, rhyming proclamations; one of which includes the name "Dolemite". (The real Moore recorded a number of prominent street poets, including Big Brown .) Moore creates a stage persona telling stories at the club. Dressing as a pimp and brandishing a cane, he

320-681: A dedicated Canadian film stream. In 2004, TIFF was featured as the site of murder mystery in the film Jiminy Glick in Lalawood , a comedy film starring Martin Short . In 2007, it was announced that the organization generates an estimated annual impact of $ 67 million CAD. By 2011, that benefit had grown to $ 170 million CAD. In 2008, Rose McGowan caused controversy at a TIFF press conference for her film Fifty Dead Men Walking , when she noted that "I imagine, had I grown up in Belfast, I would 100% have been in

384-496: A display of "scene cards" from the third act of The People vs. Larry Flynt and the original Kaypro computer that the team use to write Ed Wood . [2] [3] A quote from Karaszewski serves as a motto for the museum: "The Future of Cinema is in your hands." The WGA magazine "Written By" featured Alexander and Karaszewski on the cover of the January 2015 issue in a painting by artist Drew Friedman . In 2022, they were inducted into

448-437: A dream project for him. Murphy initially met screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski in 2003 and they began developing the project. Murphy arranged a meeting between the two writers with Moore, who told him many of his life stories before his death in 2008. However, the early attempts to make the film never came to fruition. On June 7, 2018, it was announced that Craig Brewer would direct Dolemite Is My Name from

512-441: A film executive who said he was a bit "doughier" than the other stars, Moore asks his record company for an advance on royalties to fund it himself. They agree, warning that if he fails, he will be in debt to them for the rest of his life. Moore contacts playwright Jerry Jones who, despite initial reluctance, agrees to write the screenplay. Moore and Taylor go to a strip club and find character actor D'Urville Martin , offering him

576-474: A lot on four wall distribution , Moore is pleased to see a massive crowd waiting outside the theater, and the audience greatly enjoys the film. Hollywood film executive Lawrence Woolner , whose studio Dimension Pictures had previously rejected Dolemite , hears about the Indiana premiere. He contacts Moore, promising to distribute the film. Moore arrives at Dimension Pictures dressed as Dolemite with Lady Reed and

640-533: A record company markets it to record stores. Moore offers to go on tour through the Deep South promoting it. While in Mississippi, he befriends single mother Lady Reed, convincing her to join them. Celebrating the tour's success at a movie, The Front Page , the theater's majority-white audience finds the film hilarious but Moore and his friends don't. He is inspired to make a film starring as Dolemite. Turned down by

704-882: A research centre. There is also a gift shop, two restaurants, a lounge, a cafe, and a three-storey atrium. Cooperatively with Daniels Corporation, there is a 46-storey condominium atop, called the Festival Tower. The first film screening was Bruce McDonald 's Trigger . The first exhibition was a retrospective on Tim Burton , organized by the Museum of Modern Art (New York City). Subsequent exhibitions include Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions, Grace Kelly: From Movie Star to Princess, Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style, and Stanley Kubrick : The Exhibition, all of which were organized by TIFF, as well as one called Essential Cinema , featuring posters, images and props from TIFF's The Essential 100 list of films. The Film Reference Library (FRL)

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768-510: A role in the film. Initially offended, Moore gives him the opportunity to direct the film himself. They convert the old, abandoned Dunbar Hotel into a makeshift soundstage. Jones invites a group of white UCLA film students to be the film crew, including Nicholas Josef von Sternberg as cinematographer. Moore, Martin, Jones and crew begin filming Dolemite , a kung-fu -themed blaxploitation film, but Moore's unfamiliarity with karate and predilection towards camp disgusts Martin. Despite much of

832-406: A script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski with Netflix producing and distributing. Eddie Murphy was set to star as Moore. Later that month, the rest of the principal cast was announced. In July 2018, Chris Rock and Ron Cephas Jones joined the cast. Principal photography began on June 12, 2018. Nicholas Josef von Sternberg, the director of photography of the original Dolemite , visited

896-536: A true crime anthology drama. The first season is based on the O. J. Simpson trial . The show won nine Primetime Emmys after it aired on FX in 2016, with Alexander and Karaszewski nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special . They won the Emmy , Golden Globe , Writers Guild Award , and Producers Guild Award for this miniseries. It was also a ratings juggernaut becoming cable television’s most watched new show. In 2019, they wrote

960-565: A weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In Variety , Owen Gleiberman described Murphy's performance as some kind of a comeback, writing: "As the brash hustler who made Dolemite , Eddie Murphy has his best role in years in a film that's like a blaxploitation answer to The Disaster Artist ... He plays Rudy as a cheap but priceless carny barker of his own ego." Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival ( TIFF , often stylized as tiff )

1024-443: A wide range of film and celebrity blogs. 43°38′48″N 79°23′25″W  /  43.64667°N 79.39028°W  / 43.64667; -79.39028 Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Scott Alexander (born June 16, 1963) and Larry Karaszewski ( / ˌ k ær ə ˈ zj uː s k i / ; born November 20, 1961) are an American screenwriting duo, recognized for their unique approach to biopics . They introduced

1088-424: Is Dolemite, launching into a crudely humorous and foul-mouthed routine " The Signifying Monkey ". Taylor's group join him on-stage as back up. The crowd applauds. Moore asks his aunt for money to record the comedy album "Eat Out More Often". His friend Jimmy Lynch records him at his home in front of an audience. Making several copies of the record, Moore sells them out of his car trunk. The record gains popularity, so

1152-752: Is a large Canadian film research collection. The library is a free resource for film lovers, filmmakers, students, scholars, and journalists, and is located on the fourth floor of the TIFF Lightbox. An affiliate member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) , the FRL promotes Canadian and global film scholarship by collecting, preserving, and providing access to a comprehensive collection of film prints, and film-related reference resources (including books, periodicals, scripts, research files, movies, press kits, and about 80 special collections. In 2016,

1216-577: Is an unauthorized remake of Screwed . In 2002, they served as producers on the Paul Schrader film Auto Focus , chronicling the downfall and subsequent murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane . The duo wrote and produced Tim Burton's 2014 film Big Eyes , a biopic about painter Margaret Keane . They were initially slated to direct, but later dropped out. The film took them eleven years to get made. In 2016, Alexander and Karaszewski created their first television series, American Crime Story ,

1280-516: Is known for the celebrity buzz it brings to the area with international media setting up near its restaurants and stores for photos and interviews with the stars. In 2010, TIFF opened its permanent headquarters, TIFF Lightbox, a year-round home for the appreciation of film in the heart of downtown Toronto, although TIFF films are still screened at a wider variety of venues, including the Scotiabank Theatre Toronto , rather than exclusively at

1344-606: Is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organization behind the film festival is also a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre, located in Downtown Toronto . The TIFF People's Choice Award - which is based on audience balloting - has emerged as an indicator of success during awards season , especially at

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1408-773: Is presently referred to as the " Grolsch People's Choice Award"; past sponsors of the award have included Cadillac . The winners of this award have often later earned Academy Award nominations. People's Choice Awards are also presented for Documentary and Midnight Madness films. Each of the People's Choice Awards names first and second runners-up in addition to the winners. However, TIFF does present juried awards in some other categories. The festival presents three major awards for Canadian films: Best Canadian Film , Best Canadian First Feature Film , and Best Canadian Short Film , as well as awards for Best International Short Film , two FIPRESCI -sponsored International Critics' Prizes for

1472-457: The Academy Award for Best Actor while Slumdog Millionaire went on to win eight Oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards. Precious , which won the 2009 TIFF People's Choice Award, went on to win two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards. The King's Speech , the winner of the 2010 TIFF People's Choice Award, won four Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards, while Silver Linings Playbook , the winner of

1536-644: The Academy Awards . Past recipients of this award include Oscar-winning films, such as Chariots of Fire (1981), Life Is Beautiful (1998), American Beauty (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), La La Land (2016), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), Green Book (2018), Jojo Rabbit (2019), Nomadland (2020), Belfast (2021) and American Fiction (2023). TIFF starts

1600-461: The BBC , TIFF is one of the largest and most prestigious events of its kind in the world. In 1998, Variety acknowledged that TIFF "is second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars, and market activity". In 2007, Time noted that TIFF had "grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period". In 2016, TIFF hosted 1,800 members of

1664-600: The Indie Memphis Film Festival in 2022. He also co-chaired the Oscar's International Executive Committee from 2018–2020 and was instrumental in changing the name of the category from Best Foreign Language Film to Best International Feature. Currently, Karaszewski serves on the board of directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation . In 2023, Alexander was elected to his fourth term on

1728-475: The "primary" venue of the festival. The 2020 edition was both in-person and virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic , with the virtual platform provided by Shift72 . The film screenings were initially declared as "masks optional", a decision that drew criticism for creating a potential superspreader event as the social nature of the festival could increase the risk for COVID-19 transmission. The festival reversed

1792-566: The 2012 TIFF People's Choice Award, went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence . In 2019, the festival opened with Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band , the first time the festival ever opened with a Canadian documentary film. Many Hollywood studios premiere their films in Toronto due to TIFF's easy-going non-competitive nature, relatively inexpensive costs (when compared to European festivals), eager film-fluent audiences and convenient timing. In 2007,

1856-678: The Best Actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of Margaret Keane in Big Eyes . Almost the entire cast of The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story won accolades: Sarah Paulson won the Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics Choice awards. Both Sterling K. Brown and Courtney B. Vance won Emmys and Critic Choice awards. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles has spotlighted their career with several exhibits including

1920-742: The Board of Directors for the Writers Guild of America West . In 2007, they were both featured in the documentary Dreams on Spec , a film looking at the Hollywood creative process from the perspective of the writer. Karaszewski appeared on Turner Classic Movies as a guest host with Ben Mankiewicz for a series called Reframed , spotlighting films considered groundbreaking and controversial. Several actors have won prestigious awards playing characters in films written by Alexander and Karaszewski. Martin Landau won

1984-806: The Festival Group began construction on TIFF Lightbox , a new facility at the corner of King and John Streets in downtown Toronto, on land donated by Ivan Reitman and family. The $ 181 million facility was sponsored by Bell Canada , with additional support from the Government of Ontario and Government of Canada . In 2010, the organization opened its new headquarters at TIFF Lightbox. The facility, designed by local firm KPMB Architects , provides extensive year-round galleries, cinemas, archives and activities for cinephiles. The five-storey facility contains five cinemas, two gallery spaces, film archives and an extensive reference library, study spaces, film lab facility, and

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2048-481: The IRA". In 2009, TIFF's decision to spotlight films from Tel Aviv created a controversy with protesters, saying it was part of an attempt to re-brand Israel in a positive light after the January 2009 Gaza War . In 2016, 397 films from 83 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, over 5,000 of whom were industry professionals. In 2017, TIFF reduced

2112-816: The Jungle about tech maverick John McAfee . The duo are active cineastes in Los Angeles hosting screenings of classic films for the American Cinematheque . They are also frequent guests on film related podcasts; among the shows they have appeared on are Maltin on Movies , Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast , The Movies That Made Me , The Pure Cinema Podcast , The Dana Gould Hour , The Marx Brothers Council Podcast , The Big Picture , The Treatment , The Film Scene with Illeana Douglas , The Adam Corolla Show , Post Mortem with Mick Garris , The Cannon with Amy Nicholson and The Empire Film Podcast . Karaszewski's numerous film commentaries can be found on

2176-523: The Lightbox. TIFF has grown, steadily adding initiatives throughout the years. TIFF Cinematheque (formerly Cinematheque Ontario) and the Film Reference Library (FRL) opened in 1990. The TIFF Kids International Film Festival (formerly Sprockets) launched in 1998. Film Circuit began exhibiting independent and Canadian films in under-serviced cities across Canada in 1994. The festival also organizes

2240-781: The Martian language of "Ack Ack Ack". Ed Wood' s acclaim led to a succession of offbeat biopics. They wrote The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon (about the short life of comedian Andy Kaufman ), both films directed by Miloš Forman . Alexander and Karaszewski won the Best Screenplay Golden Globe for their work on Larry Flynt . The film also won the top award at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival . In 2000, they made their directorial debut with Screwed . The hit Bollywood musical De Dana Dan

2304-479: The Moon , Big Eyes , Dolemite Is My Name , and the series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story . Most of their biographical screenplays are available in book form; Ed Wood was published by Faber and Faber , The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon were published by Newmarket Press , and Big Eyes was published by Random House . Before they met, Alexander and Karaszewski were both teenage filmmakers. Alexander's Super 8 film work

2368-554: The Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG, National Board of Review, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago Film Critics awards for Ed Wood . For The People vs. Larry Flynt , Woody Harrelson was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe. Courtney Love was also nominated for a Golden Globe and won the New York Film Critics Circle award Jim Carrey won the Best Actor Golden Globe for Man on the Moon . Amy Adams won

2432-539: The Special Presentation and Discovery programs, and a NETPAC Prize for the best film from Asia having its world premiere at the festival. In 2015, the festival introduced Platform, a juried programme that champions director's cinema from around the world; one film from the stream is selected as the winner of the Platform Prize . For all of the juried awards, honorable mentions may also be given, although

2496-527: The TIFF Film Circuit, a program which partners with local organizations in other Canadian towns and cities to present screenings of films that have previously been shown at TIFF. In May 2024, TIFF announced that it will launch a full film market in 2026. The festival was founded in 1976 at the Windsor Arms Hotel by Bill Marshall , Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl . Beginning as a collection of

2560-629: The Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and lasts for eleven days. The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 5 through 15, 2024. As of 2022 , the festival's CEO is Cameron Bailey . The Toronto International Film Festival was first launched as the Toronto Festival of Festivals , collecting the best films from other film festivals around

2624-604: The artistic director of TIFF Lightbox , while longtime programmer Cameron Bailey succeeded as co-director. As of 2013, Bailey is now the artistic director of the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as TIFF Lightbox's year round programming. TIFF was once centred on the Yorkville neighbourhood, but the Toronto Entertainment District later gained a greater level of prominence. TIFF

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2688-464: The best-regarded films from film festivals around the world, it had an inaugural attendance of 35,000. Ironically, however, Hollywood studios withdrew their submissions from TIFF due to concerns that Toronto audiences would be too parochial for their feature releases. In 1978, the festival first began billing itself as "the Toronto International Film Festival" as a supplementary name, although it retained Festival of Festivals as its primary branding. At

2752-611: The biopic Dolemite Is My Name , Eddie Murphy 's return to the big screen, which has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor at the 2020 Golden Globes. Unproduced screenplays include biopics on the Marx Brothers , Robert Ripley (for Tim Burton to direct), Patty Hearst (for James Mangold to direct) and the Grateful Dead (for Martin Scorsese to direct). Additionally, they were

2816-563: The cast and crew enjoying making the film, he quits soon after filming is completed, but first belittling them, proclaiming the film will never be seen by anyone. Martin's words seem to come true as no film distributor will purchase the film. Moore returns to touring unenthusiastically. In Indiana, asked about the film's release by a local DJ, he remains noncommittal about whether the film will ever be seen. The DJ offers to premiere it in town with enough promotion. Taking him up on it, Moore single-handedly promotes it all around town. Though he spends

2880-412: The crew dressed up as well. The executive says that, although Moore could continue promoting the film himself, he would not see profits right away. However, Dimension Pictures could put the film in theaters and everyone would profit. Moore agrees, beginning to promote it. En route to the Hollywood premiere, Moore and the cast read negative reviews of the film, lowering their spirits. Upon arrival, however,

2944-619: The decision within 24 hours citing a surge of new cases in Ontario, causing them to go fully virtual instead. The 2020 festival also saw the introduction of Industry Selects, an ad hoc film market for films seeking commercial distribution. Due to the pandemic, which prevented members of the North American film industry from travelling to international film festivals where many of the Industry Selects films were screened, they were available on

3008-505: The festival received a donation of 1,400 film prints, and launched a campaign to raise money for the preservation and storage of the films. Each year, TIFF releases a Canada's Top Ten list of the films selected by a poll of festival programmers across Canada as the ten best Canadian feature and short films of the year, regardless of whether or not they were screened at TIFF. The films selected are announced in December each year. Previously,

3072-642: The festival's industry platform, but not on the commercial platform for the general public. Introduced at the time as a temporary measure due to the pandemic, it was converted into a permanent part of the TIFF program in 2022, and became the nucleus of the festival's plans to launch a full film market in 2026. Films such as American Beauty , Ray , Mr. Nobody , 127 Hours , Black Swan , Disobedience , The Five Obstructions , Singapore Sling , I Am Love and The Fabelmans have premiered at TIFF. Jamie Foxx 's portrayal of Ray Charles ultimately won him

3136-455: The first writers of a planned 1996 live action film of the cartoon series The Jetsons , which was shut down during pre-production due to the budget. [1] . They also wrote an unproduced draft of Hulk for Jonathan Hensleigh and were hired to write a screenplay based on the Monopoly game for Ridley Scott , and adapted Nike founder Phil Knight 's autobiography Shoe Dog and King of

3200-439: The group is astonished to see an even bigger crowd of people cheering for them outside the theater. While the cast and crew go inside to see the film, Moore stays outside to entertain the crowd who must wait for the next show. Rudy Ray Moore continued to tour and star in sequels to Dolemite until his death in 2008. Today he's considered to be the "Godfather of Rap". Murphy has stated that a biopic of Rudy Ray Moore had long been

3264-671: The juries are expected to select one overall winner. In 2019, the festival introduced the TIFF Tribute Awards , a gala ceremony at which distinguished actors and filmmakers are honoured for their lifetime career achievements; unlike most award categories, the Tribute Award honorees are named in advance of the festival. The hundreds of films screened at the annual festival are divided into sections (referred to by TIFF as "Programmes") based on genre (e.g. documentary , children's films ), format (e.g. short films , television episodes ),

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3328-438: The number of films screened compared to the 2016 festival with 255 feature-length films in 2017 , and also eliminated two venues that had been used in prior years. In 2019, it was reported that due to a request from its owner, Cineplex Entertainment , no TIFF films distributed by subscription video-on-demand services (specifically Amazon Video and Netflix ) are being screened at Scotiabank Theatre—which has been considered

3392-674: The press and print media outlets such as the Toronto Star , The Globe and Mail , The New York Times , The Times of India , Los Angeles Times , The Philadelphia Inquirer , Miami Herald , and the Toronto Sun have published a significant amount of festival coverage. Also, the major industry trade magazines Variety , The Hollywood Reporter and Screen International all produce daily editions during TIFF. TIFF reports also appear in weekly news magazines; American, Canadian and international entertainment shows; news services; and

3456-610: The same time it moved from the Harbour Castle Hotel to the Plaza II, and Wayne Clarkson replaced Marshall as the festival director. The number of galas increased from one to two per night and the Canadian Film Awards were incorporated into the festival. The Festival of Festivals name was dropped in 1994, with the event becoming known exclusively as the Toronto International Film Festival at that time. From 1994 to 2009,

3520-710: The set during filming, and according to Brewer, contributed additional stories that didn't make it into the film. Dolemite Is My Name had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019. It was released in a limited release on October 4, 2019 and digital streaming on October 25, 2019. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 233 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "In dramatizing Rudy Ray Moore's stranger-than-fiction story, Eddie Murphy makes Dolemite Is My Name just as bold, brash, and ultimately hard to resist as its subject." On Metacritic , it has

3584-510: The status of filmmaker (e.g. "masters", first-time directors), and so forth. Up until the early 2010s there were sections reserved for Canadian films, but beginning in 2015 all Canadian films are integrated in sections with films from outside Canada. Currently the festival's 14 sections are as follows: In previous years, sections at TIFF have included Perspectives Canada, Canada First!, City to City ( 2009 to 2016), Future Projections, Vanguard (up to 2016), and Visions (up to 2011). According to

3648-529: The ten best films of the year. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards , the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Murphy was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . Struggling artist Rudy Ray Moore works in historic record store Dolphin's of Hollywood in 1970s L.A. , trying to get on the air in the in-store radio station. He moonlights as an MC for his friend Ben Taylor and band at

3712-454: The term "anti-biopic" to describe their distinctive style of storytelling, which focuses on individuals who might not traditionally be considered worthy of a biographical film. Instead of highlighting conventional "great men," their work often centers on lesser-known figures within American pop culture. Their notable films in this genre include Ed Wood , The People vs. Larry Flynt , Man on

3776-428: The umbrella organization running TIFF was named "Toronto International Film Festival Group" (TIFFG). In 2009, the umbrella organization TIFFG was renamed to TIFF. In 2001, Perspective Canada, the programme that had focused on Canadian films since 1984, was replaced by two programmes: As of 2015, Canadian films are now simply included alongside international films in the other film programs rather than being grouped as

3840-779: The website Trailers from Hell . In 1999, they both served as advisors to the Sundance Screenwriting Labs. Karaszewski served six years as a Governor for the Writers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , and was Vice President of History and Preservation for the Academy. He served on the juries for the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2010, the Independent Spirit Awards in 2011, and

3904-421: The winning films were screened at a smaller follow-up "Canada's Top Ten" festival at the Lightbox the following January, with a People's Choice Award then presented for that minifestival. In 2018, TIFF announced a change, under which instead of a dedicated festival, each Top Ten film will receive its own standalone theatrical run at the Lightbox throughout the year. Since 1984, every decade TIFF has also produced

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3968-441: The world and showing them to eager audiences in Toronto. Founded by Bill Marshall , Dusty Cohl , and Henk Van der Kolk , the inaugural event took place from October 18 through 24, 1976. That first year, 35,000 filmgoers watched 127 films from 30 countries presented in ten programmes. Piers Handling had been the festival's director and CEO since 1994, while Noah Cowan became co-director of TIFF in 2004. In late 2007, Cowan became

4032-507: Was later featured in a traveling theatrical release spotlighting young directors that also included J. J. Abrams . Karaszewski spent his youth as actor/writer/director on the award winning student television program Beyond Our Control . They first met as freshman roommates at the University of Southern California , graduating from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1985. The duo's first success

4096-483: Was the popular, but critically derided, comedy Problem Child . They claimed that their original screenplay was a sophisticated black comedy , but that the studio replaced them and watered it down into an unrecognizable state. The film proved to be Universal Pictures ' most profitable film of 1990. With the studio in a hurry to make a sequel, they returned to write Problem Child 2 . In 1992, dissatisfied with their careers, Alexander and Karaszewski decided to write

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