After 11 days, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 2023) concluded the activities of its 48th edition with the announcement of its new series winner.

American fiction became the big winner by receiving the coveted award TIFF Audience Award 2023. This film, starring Jeffrey Wright, presents a biting satire of the publishing industry’s treatment of African-American literature. Based on the novel Erasurby Percival Everett, this is the debut film from Cord Jefferson, who is known for his work in series such as “ Guardian, Succession either The good place.

It’s worth noting that the works that receive this recognition are often viewed as serious awards season contenders. In the last decade alone, three TIFF Audience Award winners ultimately won the Oscar for Best Picture: 12 years of slavery (2013) Green book (2018) and Nomad country (2020). The rest also appeared in the Queen category (and many others) of the Oscars: The Enigma Code (2014), The room (2015), La La Land (2016), Three counts of one crime (2017), JoJo Rabbit (2019), Belfast (2021) and The Fabelmans (2022).

Below is the full list of TIFF 2023 winners:

People’s Choice/Audience Award

TIFF 2023

• Winner – American fictionby Cord Jefferson
• First finalist – They stayby Alexander Payne.
• Second runner-up – The Boy and the Heronby Hayao Miyazaki.

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• Winner – Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believeby Robert McCallum.
• First finalist – Summer Qampby Jen Markowitz.
• Second runner-up – Mountain Queen: The peaks of Lhakpa Sherpaby Lucy Walker

Midnight Madness

• Winner – Dicks: The musiclby Larry Charles
• First finalist – killby Nikhil Nagesh Bhat.
• Second runner-up – A hellish summerby Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk

Other TIFF 2023 winners

Platform price

• Dear Jassi, by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar

Changemaker

We have grown nowby Minhal Baig

Best Canadian Feature Film

• Onlyby Sofia Dupuis
  • Honorable Mention: Canavalby Henri Pardo

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• Best Canadian Film by a BIPOC Filmmaker – Canavalby Henri Pardo
• Best Canadian First Feature by a BIPOC Filmmaker – Tautuktavuk (What we see)by Carol Kunnuk, Lucy Tulugarjuk

FIPRESCI

• Seaweedby Meredith Hama-Brown

NETPAC

• A matchby Jayant Digambar Somalkar

Abbreviations

• Best Short Film – Electraby Daria Kashcheeva
• Best Canadian Short Film – Hometownby Jasmin Mozaffari
• Share Her Journey Award – She (snake), you. Renee Zhan
• Honorable Mention – Gaby’s Hillsby Zoe Pelchattos