It may not have won the Toronto International Film Festival award for best Canadian film, but 21.6% of respondents to a Playback online poll voted The Saddest Music in the World the best Canuck feature they saw at TIFF 2003. Next was the film that did win, The Barbarian Invasions (14.7%), followed by Mambo Italiano (13.7%), Go Further (6.9%), Falling Angels (5.9%), My Life Without Me (4.9%) and Gaz Bar Blues (2.0%). 30.4% indicated they preferred a film not among those listed.