Spielberg says “The Fabelmans” is “deeply personal” and was created out of “fear” of the pandemic.

Following its awards ceremony at the Toronto Film Festival, the director’s childhood film emerges as an Oscar favorite

AFP – The new film by Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmanshas secured the spot as one of the favorites to win the Oscar winning, this Sunday, 18, the main prize of the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film, which will debut in theaters in November, is a semi-autobiographical drama based on Spielberg’s childhood that embraces his parents’ troubled marriage, anti-Semitic persecution of his family and his first steps in cinema, with low-budget films made with friends. during adolescence.

The director received a standing ovation from the audience at the film’s world premiere last weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, known as TIFF.

“As I said on stage the other night, most of all I’m glad I brought this film to Toronto,” Spielberg said in a statement released Sunday.

“This is the most personal film I’ve ever made and the warm welcome to Toronto made my first visit to TIFF very intimate and personal for me and my entire Fabelman family,” he said.

Voted by the public, the People’s Choice Award of the largest film festival in North America has become a major reference for the Oscars, anticipating eventual Academy Award winners for best film, as happened with nomadic landin 2020.

Spielberg, considered one of the best living directors in Hollywood, has won three Oscars: for best film and best director for Schindler’s Listand again as best director for Save Private Ryan.

So far, he’s been nominated for 19 Oscars and the list is expected to grow on the upcoming awards night, scheduled for March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.

The last ten winners of the Toronto People’s Choice Awards have been nominated for Best Picture by the Academy and three have won Oscars, including the surprise winner of 2019. Green Paper: The Guide.

12 years of slavery (2013), The king’s speech (2010) and Who wants to Be a Millionaire? (2008) began their journey towards Oscar consecration with the award received in Toronto.

The Fabelmans and the fear of death

At the premiere last weekend, Spielberg told an enthusiastic audience that he had long wanted to make a deeply personal film like that. The Fabelmansbut who has decided to do so now out of “fear” of the pandemic.

“I don’t think anyone knew, in March or April 2020, what the state of the art would be, the state of life the following year,” he said.

“I felt like I had to leave something behind, what was it I really needed to fix and dust off my mom, dad and sisters? It wasn’t ‘Now or Never’, but it almost felt like that”, said the 75-year-old director.

The other Toronto finalists were women talkingby Sarah Polley e Glass onion: a mystery chases awayby Rian Johnson.

The award for the best documentary went to black iceby Hubert Davis, a Canadian film about racism in the world of professional ice hockey.

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