Steven Spielberg’s new film The Fabelmans has won the Toronto international film festival’s People’s Choice award, long regarded in the film industry as a key indicator of awards success over the next few months.
The Fabelmans, directed by Spielberg and co-written with Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner, has been hailed as Spielberg’s most autobiographical film and has won generally admiring reviews.
Recent winners of the award include the Kenneth Branagh-directed Belfast, and best picture Oscar winners Nomadland and Green Book.
Among Toronto’s other awards, best documentary went to Black Ice, a study of racism in Canadian ice hockey, and the Midnight Madness People’s Choice to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a biopic of the eccentric musician starring Daniel Radcliffe.