AceShowbiz - Kenneth Branagh, Jessica Chastain, and Benedict Cumberbatch have received top honours at Canada's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

The festival's top winners often go on to score Oscar nominations and Academy Awards and on Saturday (18Sep21), officials announced Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical drama "Belfast" had scooped the TIFF People's Choice Award, while the Ebert Director Award went to "Dune" filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.

Chastain scored Best Actress for her role as televangelist Tammy Faye in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" and Cumberbatch was named Best Actor for his two films at the festival, "The Power of the Dog" and "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain".

Singer Dionne Warwick - subject of the documentary "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over" - received a special Tribute Award.

The complete 2021 TIFF winners list is as follows:

• People's Choice Award: "Belfast"
• People's Choice Documentary Award: "The Rescue"
• People's Choice Midnight Madness Award: "Titane"
• TIFF Tribute Actor Awards: Jessica Chastain, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" & Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Power of the Dog" / "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain"
• TIFF Special Tribute Award: Dionne Warwick, "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over"
• TIFF Ebert Director Award: Denis Villeneuve, "Dune"
• TIFF Emerging Talent Award: Danis Goulet, "Night Raiders"
• Platform Prize: "Yuni"
• Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media: Alanis Obomsawin
• Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award: "Scarborough"
• Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: "Ste. Anne"
• Amplify Voices Award: "The Gravedigger's Wife" & "A Night of Knowing Nothing"
• TIFF Variety Artisan Award): Cinematographer Ari Wegner, "The Power of the Dog"
• IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Film: "Displaced"
• IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film: "Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice"
• IMDbPro Short Cuts Share Her Journey Award: "Astel"