Toronto/CMEDIA: Oscar-nominated actor Amy Adams and iconic Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter David Cronenberg would reportedly be the first honourees of 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Tribute Awards, Cameron Bailey, CEO, TIFF has announced.
Taking place on Sunday, Sept 8 at Fairmont Royal York Hotel, the sixth annual TIFF Tribute Awards, serving as a kick-off to awards season, honours the film industry’s outstanding contributors and their achievements.
While Adams will be the proud recipient of the 2024 TIFF Tribute Performer Award, Cronenberg will be honored with the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award, and Sandra Oh would be the award-winning Korean Canadian actor and producer.
“Returning to TIFF feels like coming home…Raising funds and awareness for representation…so proud that the proceeds will go directly to Every Story Fund…mission to empower diverse voices aligns perfectly with my own,” Sandra Oh has said.
TIFF’s largest annual fundraiser, In 2024, the Tribute Awards gala’s proceeds will go towards TIFF’s Every Story Fund, which champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in film.
Recognized for her outstanding body of work, Adams returns to the Festival this year for the World Premiere of Marielle Heller’s dark comedy Nightbitch.
Past recipients of the TIFF Tribute Performer Award are Colman Domingo and Vicky Krieps in 2023; Brendan Fraser and the ensemble cast of My Policeman in 2022; Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch in 2021; Kate Winslet and Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2020; and Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix in 2019.
Recipient of the inaugural award in 2023, producer-director Shawn Levy explores unconventional themes and his innovative storytelling to shape contemporary cinema worldwide.
About Amy Adams
Six-time academy award nominated actress, Amy Adams, who also serves as a producer on the film via her production company, Bond Group Entertainment, will next be seen starring in the film, Nightbitch, an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s acclaimed debut novel of the same name Adams. Adams can be seen recently starring in the film Disenchanted, the sequel to her 2007 blockbuster hit, Enchanted, for Disney+. Prior.
Starring in production of Tennessee Williams’ beloved memory play, The Glass Menagerie, Adams made her West End debut.
Adams also received a Golden Globe nomination, SAG nomination, Critics’ Choice Nomination, BAFTA Nomination, and an Academy Award Nomination for starring in Adam McKay’s 2018 film, Vice.
Additionally, she won a Critics’ choice award for her role in HBO’s high-profile drama series, Sharp Objects, executive produced by her, and was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG, and Emmy for her performance.
Represented by WME, Linden Entertainment, Narrative, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, Adams recently wrapped production on the Sony film Klara and the Sun, from director Taika Waititi, based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times–bestselling novel.
According to a recent announcement Adams will star in At the Sea, a new drama from Kornel Mundruczó and Kata Wéber.
About David Cronenberg
An authentic auteur, filmmaker David Cronenberg is reputed by his uniquely personal body of work including Shivers, Rabid, Fast Company, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, eXistenz, The Dead Zone, M. Butterfly, Spider, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars, Crimes of the Future, and The Shrouds.
Cronenberg has also been lauded as one of the world’s most influential filmmakers.
Included in his creative pursuits are curation of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964 exhibition in 2006; staging an opera of The Fly in 2008; and penning his first novel, Consumed, in 2014.
Besides being a notable performer and actor, Cronenberg of late can be seen in Alias Grace, Disappearance at Clifton Hill, and Star Trek: Discovery. Recognition of Cronenberg’s contribution to art and culture has included an appointment as an Officer to the Order of Canada in 2003, a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2014, investiture in France’s Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and the Légion d’Honneur in 2009.
About Sandra Oh
As a prolific actor of the screen and the stage, Sandra Oh, hailing from Ottawa, Canada, with her career spans over 30 years. At the age 10, Oh appeared in her first play The Canada Goose.
Following three years at the National Theatre School of Canada, she landed the title role in the CBC film The Diary of Evelyn Lau (Gemini nomination/Best Actress and the Cannes FIPA d’Or for Best Actress).
Oh is currently starring opposite Awkwafina in the Off-Broadway production of The Welkin at New York’s The Atlantic Theatre; the Hulu comedy film Quiz Lady, which had its World Premiere at TIFF in 2023 as well as the HBO/A24 limited series adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer.
Starring next star in director Anne Marie Fleming’s Can I Get a Witness. her film credits include: Sideways, Double Happiness, Under The Tuscan Sun, The Princess Diaries, Dancing at the Blue Iguana, Last Night, Catfight, Defendor, Blindness, The Night Listener, For Your Consideration, Long Life Happiness and Prosperity, Sorry Hater, Ramona and Beezus, The Red Violin, and The Same Storm. Animated film credits include the Toronto-set Turning Red, Over The Moon, Raya and the Last Dragon, Window Horses, and The Tiger’s Apprentice. Television credits: 10 seasons as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy (Golden Globe Award/SAG Award/Emmy nominations), The Chair (also Executive Produced), and four seasons of Killing Eve (also Executive Produced, Golden Globe Award/SAG Award/Critics Choice Award/Emmy Award nominations), Arli$$ (HBO), and Thorne: Scaredy Cat (UK).
The 49th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5–15, 2024
