“American Fiction” won the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival

The film “American Fiction,” directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright, won the Audience Award of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) which concludes this Sunday in the Canadian city.

The film, an adaptation of Percival Everett’s book “Erasure” which also stars actors Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz and Erika Alexander, is a satire on artistic integrity.

The Toronto exhibition also announced in a statement that “The Holdovers”, by Alexander Payne and performed by Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa, was the second most voted film of the festival.

In third place was the Japanese animated film “The Boy and the Heron”, by director Hayao Miyazaki.

The film by the renowned Japanese director was the one with which the festival opened its 48th edition on September 7. The film that officially closed the exhibition was the documentary “Sly”, which reflects the career of actor Sylvester Stallone.

Although the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival does not have a financial allocation or the glamor of awards such as the Golden Lion in Venice or the Palme d’Or in Cannes, it is a precious distinction that often predicts the most awarded films. at the Oscars.

It happened in 1988 with “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”, in 1999 with “American Beauty”, in 2000 with “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” or more recently in 2020 with “Nomadland”.

TIFF also said the Audience Award for the Midnight Madness program of horror and sci-fi films went to Larry Charles’ “Dicks: The Musical,” while the popular award in the documentary category went to “ Mr. Dressup:The Magic of Make-Believe”, by Robert McCallum.

On the other hand, the award from the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) went to “Seagrass”, by Meredith Hama-Brown.

With information from EFE