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The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2023 Toronto Film Festival has gone to American Fiction . First Runner Up is Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Second Runner Up was Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron . The Documentary Award went to Mr. Dressup: The Magic Of Make-Believe, ,and the Midnight Madness winner was Dicks: The Musical.
Orion and MRC’s American Fiction stars Jeffrey Wright and comes from writer/director Cord Jefferson. It is a scathing satire on the publishing industry and its treatment of serious works by Black writers, one whose name is Thelonious “Monk” Ellison who with the made-up name Sinatra Golden decides to give them a stereotyped book “We’s Lives In Da Ghetto” as a protest but is horrified when it becomes a best seller. It is scheduled to be released in theatres in November.
Toronto Film Festival 2022 Photo Gallery
Voted online by audience members since 1978 and often considered a harbinger for the Best Picture Oscar, the TIFF People’s Choice Award has been won by such eventual Best Picture Academy Award winners as Nomadland, Green Book, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millinaire, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire. Among those that went on to Best Picture nominations include last year’s winner The Fabelmans, as well as Belfast, JoJo Rabbit, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Room, La La Land, The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook, Precious, Life Is Beautiful, Places in the Heart and The Big Chill.
Here is a list of all the 2023 TIFF Award Winners:
| SHORT CUTS AWARDS:
Short Cuts Award for Best Film: Electra, dir. Daria Kashcheeva FIPRESCI PRIZE AMPLIFY VOICES AWARDS The 2023 Amplify Voices Trailblazer Award was presented to Damon D’Oliveira, producer. BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM AWARD CHANGEMAKER AWARD PLATFORM AWARD PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD The TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner is Dicks: The Musica dir. Larry Charles. The TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Documentary Award winner is Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe dir. Robert McCallum. The TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award winner is: American Fiction dir. Cord Jefferson. |
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