[2][3][4][5][6] At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded:[7] Because the vote for the People's Choice Award was so close, at the awards ceremony Piers Handling (festival co-director) announced four runners-up.

[8] However, in the subsequent reporting there was confusion about the order of the runners-up.

As reported by ScreenDaily, the results of the People's Choice Award voting was as follows:[9] Certain other publications indicated (probably erroneously) that the order of the runners-up was reversed, with Mother of Mine finishing second to Tsotsi.

[10][11][12] Featuring Don Owen [13] In December, TIFF released its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the films programmers had selected as the ten best Canadian films of the year.

[14] These were screened as a followup "Canada's Top Ten" minifestival in early 2006, with public screenings in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver.