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'Precious' snags audience choice award at TIFF

Posted on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
by Associated Press and Cineplex Entertainment Staff

Precious

A raw film about an abused teen named Precious has won the audience choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The harrowing tale, Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, snagged the coveted award Saturday, the last day of the festival.

Before coming to Toronto, the film wowed audiences at the Sundance festival, taking the grand jury and audience awards there.

Piers Handling, co-director of the Toronto festival, says the remarkable success of Precious is not unlike last year's surprise sensation, Slumdog Millionaire.

After winning the audience choice award in Toronto, Slumdog went on to sweep the big categories at the Oscars.

Cineplex sat down with star Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe and director Lee Daniels. Check out what they had to say about making the film.

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