{"id":19056,"date":"2023-09-17T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T22:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:39:59","slug":"director-cord-jeffersons-film-american-fiction-won-the-top-prize-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19056","title":{"rendered":"Director Cord Jefferson\u2019s Film, \u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d Won the Top Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Cord Jefferson\u2019s latest film, \u201c<strong>American Fiction<\/strong>\u201d garnered the top prize, People\u2019s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jefferson, who has been a writer on \u201c<strong>Succession<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Watchmen<\/strong>,\u201d made his feature directorial debut with the movie and wrote the screenplay. It is based on Percival Everett\u2019s 2001 novel, \u201cErasure.\u201d MGM is releasing the film this year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/zofran.html\">buy zofran<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Choice Award has been considered to be a strong Oscar contenders for last decade.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The winners of the top prize as \u201c<strong>Green Book<\/strong>,\u201d \u201c<strong>12 Years a Slave<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>Nomadland<\/strong>\u201d went on to grab the best picture at the Academy Awards. Other recipients, including \u201c<strong>Belfast,<\/strong>\u201d \u201c<strong>La La Land<\/strong>,\u201d \u201c<strong>Jojo Rabbit,<\/strong>\u201d and 2022\u2019s winner, \u201c<strong>The Fabelmans<\/strong>,\u201d were all best picture nominees. Even though the 2023 selections might not be This year\u2019s Toronto was a much more low-key affair with fewer red carpets and splashy premieres, due to the WGA and AG-AFTRA strikes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/oseltamivir.html\">buy oseltamivir<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<p> She actors received the promotion interim agreement for small indie films.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/orthosummit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/doxycycline.html\">buy doxycycline<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Payne\u2019s boarding school dramedy \u201c<strong>The Holdovers<\/strong>&#8221; was the first runner-up for the People\u2019s Choice Award, while Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s animated coming-of-age story \u201c<strong>The Boy and the Heron<\/strong>\u201d was the second runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Dicks: The Musical<\/strong>,\u201d a raunchy satire from \u201c<strong>Borat<\/strong>\u201d director Larry Charles, won the People\u2019s Choice Midnight Madness Award. A24 will release the film later this month. The first runner-up in the Midnight Madness category was Nikhil Nagesh Bhat\u2019s\u00a0\u201c<strong>Kill<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0while \u201c<strong>Hell of a Summer,<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0co-directed by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, was the second runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>The audience prize for documentary went to Robert McCallum\u2019s \u201c<strong>Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe<\/strong>,\u201d a profile of children\u2019s entertainer Ernie Coombs. Jen Markowitz\u2019s \u201c<strong>Summer Qamp<\/strong>\u201d and Lucy Walker\u2019s \u201c<strong>Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa<\/strong>\u201d were the first and second runner-ups in the non-fiction category.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s the complete list of the award winners.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>People\u2019s Choice Award:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d (dir. Cord Jefferson)<\/p>\n<p><b>People\u2019s Choice Documentary Award:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cMr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe\u201d (dir. Robert McCallum)<\/p>\n<p><b>People\u2019s Choice Midnight Madness Award:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cDicks: The Musical\u201d (dir. Larry Charles)<\/p>\n<p><b>Platform Award:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cDear Jassi\u201d (dir. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Canadian Feature Film: <\/b>\u201cSolo\u201d (dir. Sophie Dupuis)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Short Film:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cElectra\u201d (dir. Daria Kascheeva)<\/p>\n<p><b>Best Canadian Short:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cMotherland\u201d (dir. Jasmin Mozaffari)<\/p>\n<p><b>#ShareHerJourney Award:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cShe\u201d (dir. Renee Zhan)<\/p>\n<p><b>NETPAC Award:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cA Match\u201d (dir. Jayant Digambar Somalkar)<\/p>\n<p><b>FIPRESCI Jury Award:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cSeagrass\u201d (dir. Meredith Hama-Brown)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amplify Voices Award for Best BIPOC Canadian Feature:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cKanaval\u201d (dir. Henri Pardo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amplify Voices Award for Best BIPOC Canadian First Feature:<\/strong>\u201cTautuktavuk\u201d (dir. Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amplify Voices BIPOC Canadian Trailblazer Award:<\/strong> Damon D\u2019Oliveira<\/p>\n<p><strong>Changemaker Award<\/strong>: \u201cWe Grown Now\u201d (dir. Minhal Baig)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Cord Jefferson\u2019s latest film, \u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d garnered the top prize, People\u2019s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.\u00a0 Jefferson, who has been a writer on \u201cSuccession\u201d and \u201cWatchmen,\u201d made his feature directorial debut with the movie and wrote the screenplay. It is based on Percival Everett\u2019s 2001 novel, \u201cErasure.\u201d MGM is releasing the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18071,18063,18066,18065,18068,18069,18064,17891,18070,18067,4143],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Director Cord Jefferson\u2019s Film, \u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d Won the Top Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19056\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Director Cord Jefferson\u2019s Film, \u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d Won the Top Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director Cord Jefferson\u2019s latest film, \u201cAmerican Fiction\u201d garnered the top prize, People\u2019s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.\u00a0 Jefferson, who has been a writer on \u201cSuccession\u201d and \u201cWatchmen,\u201d made his feature directorial debut with the movie and wrote the screenplay. 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