Toronto/CMEDIA: It was announced today by Cameron Bailey, CEO of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that the ensemble cast of My Policeman — Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett — for the first time will be honored with the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance.
As previously announced, My Policeman by director Michael Grandage will have its World Premiere at this year’s Festival.
In its fourth year, the TIFF Tribute Awards presented by BVLGARI will return to an in-person gala fundraiser during the 47th edition of the TIFF on Sunday, September 11, at Fairmont Royal York Hotel.
The TIFF Tribute Award for Performance is presented by Polestar.
“When your film shifts through time and across fluid boundaries of love and desire, you need a cast that can embody those nuances in every gesture,” said Bailey. “Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson deliver beautiful, mirrored performances with Linus Roache, Gina McKee, and Rupert Everett. We’re thrilled to honour the ensemble cast of My Policeman with the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance.”
Adapted by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner from Bethan Roberts’ award-winning novel of the same name, Prime Video’s My Policeman, the tale of forbidden romance and changing social conventions follows three people — policeman Tom (Harry Styles/Linus Roache), teacher Marion (Emma Corrin/Gina McKee), and museum curator Patrick (David Dawson/Rupert Everett) — and their emotional journey spanning decades.
Flashing forward to the 1990s, still reeling with longing and regret, Tom (Roache), Marion (McKee), and Patrick (Everett) have one last chance to repair the damage of the past. Grandage carves a visually transporting, heart-stopping portrait depicting three people caught up in the shifting tides of history, liberty, and forgiveness.
In the first of two performance awards to be announced, it is for the first time ever, that the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance will be celebrating an ensemble cast in the now gender-neutral acting category.
Past recipients who were honoured in this acting category were Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch in 2021; Kate Winslet and Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2020; and Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix in 2019.
Serving as an awards-season indicator, with past honourees Jessica Chastain, Roger Deakins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Joaquin Phoenix, Taika Waititi, and Chloé Zhao going on to win awards on the international stage, the TIFF Tribute Awards honor the film industry’s outstanding contributors and their achievements.
Also serving as TIFF’s largest annual fundraiser to support TIFF’s Every Story fund, the Awards event , which promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in film and TIFF’s core mission to transform the way people see the world through film.
The coming weeks would have more information on the 2022 TIFF Tribute Awards event and this year’s honorees.
My Policeman ensemble biographies
Harry Styles
An international singer, songwriter, and actor, Harry Styles made his acting debut in Christopher Nolan’s 2017 acclaimed drama Dunkirk and can next be seen in Olivia Wilde’s upcoming film Don’t Worry Darling. My Policeman marks his first-ever starring role.
Emma Corrin
Best known for the role of Lady Diana Spencer in Season 4 of the Netflix worldwide, award-winning hit series, The Crown, actor Emma Corrin earned Corrin a Golden Globe and Critics Choice award for Best Actress, as well as a SAG and Emmy nomination in the same category. Reuniting with director Michael Grandage this year, Corrin will star in Orlando, a play penned by Neil Bartlett from the Virginia Woolf novel and will play the titular role in the feminist classic spanning nearly 400 centuries and follows a poet who explores gender expression and meets various key figures of English literary history.
David Dawson
Recently starring alongside Jonathan Pryce, Laurence Fishburne, and Chris Pine in the espionage thriller All the Old Knives for Amazon Studios, David Dawson has a wide and varied television career.
As a revered stage actor, best known for his role as King Alfred in The Last Kingdom, Dawson received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination on stage for playing Smike in the 2007 production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Having enjoyed a varied acting career both on stage and on screen, some Gina McKee’s many film appearances include featured roles in Joe Wright’s Atonement, Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland, and Roger Michell’s Notting Hill. Apart from films, McKee has made many notable TV appearances, including most recently as Commander Anne Sampson in the hit BBC TV series Bodyguard. Other TV credits include her role in Hebburn (which won an RTS award), The Borgias, Line of Duty, The Street, The Lost Prince, The Forsyte Saga, Brass Eye, and Our Friends in The North, which earned McKee the coveted Best Actress BAFTA Award. Alongside McKee’s screen career, she is also an acclaimed stage actress with productions including Faith Healer, the Olivier Award–nominated King Lear, and Old Times, all at the Donmar Warehouse. Other productions include: The Mother, Di and Viv and Rose; London’s West End’s Richard III, Ivanov, The Lover and the Collection; as well as Aristocrats for the National Theatre.
With his first appeared on stage in 1981 as Guy Bennett in the West End production of Julian Mitchell’s play Another Country, a role which Rupert Everett repeated in the 1984 film version and saw him nominated for a BAFTA as Best Newcomer. Subsequent nominations include a BAFTA and Golden Globe for My Best Friend’s Wedding.
Linus Roache
Linus Roache first gained worldwide recognition in Antonia Bird’s critically acclaimed film Priest. Since then, he has appeared in many films, including Iain Softley’s Wings of a Dove, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Mira Nair’s The Namesake, and John Furse’s Blind Flight, for which he received a Best Actor nomination from the Scottish BAFTAs. He also played the lead role in Pandaemonium, directed by Julien Temple, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Evening Standard Film Awards. Linus received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Robert Kennedy in the F/X television film RFK, directed by Robert Dornhelm, and co-starred in HBO’s award-winning The Gathering Storm, for which he won the Satellite Award for best actor in a supporting role.
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