The film stars Jeffrey Wright and comes from writer/director Cord Jefferson.
The film is a 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.
American Fiction is scheduled to be released in theatres in November. People's Choice Award is voted online by audience members 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 Book-based films such as Nomadland, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, and Slumdog Millionaire. Among those that went on to Best Picture nominations includes book-based film JoJo Rabbit, Room, The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook, Precious, and Places in the Heart.
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Here is a list of all the 2023 TIFF Award Winners:
SHORT CUTS AWARDS:
Short Cuts Award for Best Film: Electra, dir. Daria Kashcheeva
Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film: Motherland, dir. Jasmin Mozaffari
Share Her Journey Award: Shé (Snake), dir. Renee Zhan
Honourable Mention: Gaby’s Hills, dir. Zoé Pelchat
NETPAC AWARD
Jayant Digambar Somalkar’s A Match .
FIPRESCI PRIZE
Seagrass, dir. Meredith Hama-Brown
AMPLIFY VOICES AWARDS
Best BIPOC Canadian Feature: Kanaval, dir. Henri Pardo
Best BIPOC Canadian First Feature Award: Tautuktavuk (What We See), dirs. Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk
The 2023 Amplify Voices Trailblazer Award was presented to Damon D’Oliveira, producer.
BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM AWARD
Solo, dir. Sophie Dupuis
(Honorable Mention): Kanaval, dir. Henri Pardo
CHANGEMAKER AWARD
We Grown Now, dir. Minhal Baig.
PLATFORM AWARD
Dear Jassi, dir. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar.
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
The TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award winner is Dicks: The Musica dir. Larry Charles.
The first runner-up is Kill dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat.
The second runner-up is Hell of a Summer dirs. Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk.
The TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Documentary Award winner is Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe dir. Robert McCallum.
The first runner-up is Summer Qamp dir. Jen Markowitz.
The second runner-up is Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa dir. Lucy Walker.
The TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award winner is: American Fiction dir. Cord Jefferson.
The first runner-up is The Holdovers dir. Alexander Payne.
The second runner-up is The Boy and the Heron dir. Hayao Miyazaki.
Source: Deadline.com