Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction picked up the top People’s Choice honor Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival, which wrapped up a 48th edition with little Hollywood star wattage amid the uncertainty of dual Hollywood strikes.
Jefferson’s film grabbed TIFF’s top audience award, considered a barometer of future Academy Award nominations, but that comes with an asterisk for a Toronto festival heavily impacted by the dual Hollywood actors and writers strikes.
The ongoing labor action by members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America led to members being barred from touting their latest films in Toronto and other fall film festivals unless their producers had signed interim agreements.
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