Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival
	King Street West during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded	1976; 47 years ago
No. of films	Fewest, 50 (2020); most, 460 (1984)
Language	International
Website	tiff.net
Current: 2023
	2024 2022

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, founded in 1976 and taking place each September. It is also a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Lightbox cultural centre, located in Downtown Toronto.

Lightbox is the cultural centrepiece and home to TIFF programming outside festival dates

The festival's People's Choice Award—which is based on audience balloting—has emerged as an indicator of success during awards season, especially at 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 the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and lasts for eleven days.

The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival took place from September 7-17, 2023.^[2] As of 2022^[update] the festival's executive director is Cameron Bailey.^[3]

^ "35th Anniversary Fact Sheet: TIFF Facts and Figures" (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. September 27, 2010. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2010.
^ "'The Swimmers' chosen as Toronto International Film Festival opening night gala film" Archived October 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. The Globe and Mail, July 27, 2022.
^ "Cameron Bailey appointed CEO of Toronto International Film Festival" Archived January 25, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, November 30, 2021.

[1] "35th Anniversary Fact Sheet: TIFF Facts and Figures" (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. September 27, 2010. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2010.

[2] "'The Swimmers' chosen as Toronto International Film Festival opening night gala film" Archived October 14, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. The Globe and Mail, July 27, 2022.

[3] "Cameron Bailey appointed CEO of Toronto International Film Festival" Archived January 25, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, November 30, 2021.

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