The post “American Fiction” Walks Away With People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>Voted by the public attending the screenings at TIFF, the People’s Choice Award is regarded as the starting gun of the Academy Award nominations race. Many of the previous winners went on to get nominations and even won the best picture Oscar, including Nomadland, Green Book, and 12 Years a Slave.
Time will tell if American Fiction will experience the same fate, but its success in Toronto is quite impressive regardless. It hails from the first-time feature director Cord Jefferson, who based this film on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure.
“My gratitude towards everyone who watched American Fiction [and] discussed it afterwards among friends and colleagues is endless. The film is now in your hands, and I’m so grateful that it was embraced in this way,” Jefferson said in a statement.
The festival’s opening film, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, was one of the two runners-up for the People’s Choice Award this year, along with Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
The post “American Fiction” Walks Away With People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>The post “American Fiction” Walks Away With People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>Voted by the public attending the screenings at TIFF, the People’s Choice Award is regarded as the starting gun of the Academy Award nominations race. Many of the previous winners went on to get nominations and even won the best picture Oscar, including Nomadland, Green Book, and 12 Years a Slave.
Time will tell if American Fiction will experience the same fate, but its success in Toronto is quite impressive regardless. It hails from the first-time feature director Cord Jefferson, who based this film on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure.
“My gratitude towards everyone who watched American Fiction [and] discussed it afterwards among friends and colleagues is endless. The film is now in your hands, and I’m so grateful that it was embraced in this way,” Jefferson said in a statement.
The festival’s opening film, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, was one of the two runners-up for the People’s Choice Award this year, along with Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
The post “American Fiction” Walks Away With People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF appeared first on Entertainment For Us.
]]>