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.

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Spielberg’s latest film is set in the post-World War II era Arizona, and it centers on a young man who uses the power of film to uncover a shattering family secret. It’s inspired by the director’s own childhood and he repeatedly described it as his most personal film to date.

The Fabelmans is Spielberg’s first film to ever premiere at TIFF, and the critics and the audience were impressed by it in equal measure. In addition to receiving rave reviews, it also defeated Sarah Polley’s Women Talking and Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to win TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.

What does this victory say about the film’s future at the upcoming Academy Awards? As a matter of fact, quite a lot! Many of the previous People’s Choice Awards either won or received nominations for the best picture. Most recently, Green Book and Nomadland, both walked away with the Oscars, and The Fabelmansi could experience the same fate after its victory in Toronto.

The post “The Fabelmans” Becomes First Major Oscar Contender After Winning Top Honor in Toronto 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.

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A post shared by TIFF (@tiff_net)

The post “American Fiction” Walks Away With People’s Choice Award at 2023 TIFF appeared first on Entertainment For Us.

Spielberg’s latest film is set in the post-World War II era Arizona, and it centers on a young man who uses the power of film to uncover a shattering family secret. It’s inspired by the director’s own childhood and he repeatedly described it as his most personal film to date.

The Fabelmans is Spielberg’s first film to ever premiere at TIFF, and the critics and the audience were impressed by it in equal measure. In addition to receiving rave reviews, it also defeated Sarah Polley’s Women Talking and Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to win TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.

What does this victory say about the film’s future at the upcoming Academy Awards? As a matter of fact, quite a lot! Many of the previous People’s Choice Awards either won or received nominations for the best picture. Most recently, Green Book and Nomadland, both walked away with the Oscars, and The Fabelmansi could experience the same fate after its victory in Toronto.

The post “The Fabelmans” Becomes First Major Oscar Contender After Winning Top Honor in Toronto appeared first on Entertainment For Us.