American Fiction wins People’s Choice award at Toronto Film Festival

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in a scene from American Fiction (Claire Folger/MGM-Orion Releasing/AP)

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, a biting satire starring Jeffery Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) – a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race.

American Fiction is the directorial debut of Jefferson, the veteran TV writer of Watchmen and Succession, and an adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure.