1984 Toronto International Film Festival

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1984 Toronto International Film Festival
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Festival poster
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films225 feature films
Festival dateSeptember 6, 1984 (1984-09-06)–September 15, 1984 (1984-09-15)
LanguageEnglish
Website tiff.net

The 9th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1984. The festival introduced Perspective Canada programme, devoted to Canadian films. [1] [2] The festival screened 225 feature films and more than half of them were Canadian films. [3]

Contents

In 1984 Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was released. It was created by the votes of film critics, professors, fans and festival staff. [3] [4]

Awards

Award [5] [6] FilmDirector
People's Choice Award Places in the Heart Robert Benton
Best Canadian Feature Film A Woman in Transit Léa Pool
International Critics' Award Choose Me Alan Rudolph

Programme

Gala Presentation

Canadian Perspective

Front & Centre

Front & Centre was a special one-off program, which screened culturally and artistically important films from throughout the entire history of Canadian cinema. [7]

Documentaries

Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time

RankTitleYearDirector
1 Mon oncle Antoine 1971 Claude Jutra
2 Goin' Down the Road 1970 Don Shebib
3 Good Riddance 1980 Francis Mankiewicz
4 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974 Ted Kotcheff
5 The Grey Fox 1983 Phillip Borsos
6 Orders 1974 Michel Brault
7 J.A. Martin Photographer 1977 Jean Beaudin
8 Pour la suite du monde 1963 Pierre Perrault
9 Nobody Waved Goodbye 1964 Don Owen
10 The True Nature of Bernadette 1972 Gilles Carle

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References

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  2. "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 18, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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  4. "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine ," The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2012, URL accessed October 18, 2013.
  5. "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine . tiff.net, October 16, 2013.
  6. "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
  7. Jay Scott, "Mon Oncle Antoine No. 1 with critics". The Globe and Mail , August 2, 1984.