Toronto Festival to Honor David Cronenberg, Amy Adams

The Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF) has unveiled the primary wave of its honorees for this yr, naming Canadian directing legend David Cronenberg because the recipient of the Norman Jewison Profession Achievement Award and Amy Adams because the winner of this yr’s TIFF Tribute Performer Award.

Cronenberg is among the many most original and influential filmmakers of his era an auteur who has created a bespoke model of mental horror with movies corresponding to Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Crash and A Historical past of Violence. His newest, The Shrouds, premiered in competitors in Cannes final month. Shawn Levy (Free Man, Deadpool & Wolverine) obtained the inaugural Norman Jewison profession award in 2023.

Adams, a six-time Oscar nominee (for Junebug, Doubt, The Fighter, The Grasp, American Hustle and Vice), will likely be seen subsequent in Nightbitch, a comedy horror movie from director Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) tailored from Rachel Yoder’s debut novel of the identical title. Nightbitch can have its world premiere at TIFF 2024. Adams additionally serves as a producer on the movie through her manufacturing firm, Bond Group Leisure. . Previous recipients of the TIFF Tribute Performer Award embody Brendan Fraser, Jessica Chastain, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix.

Cronenberg and Adams will likely be honored at TIFF’s Tribute Awards gala on the Fairmont Royal York Lodge on September 8. Canadian actress Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, Quiz Woman) has been named the honorary chair for this yr’s gala.

The Tribute Awards gala serves as TIFF’s greatest annual fundraiser, with proceeds this yr going in the direction of the competition’s Each Story Fund to champion range, fairness, inclusion and belonging in movie.

The forty ninth Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition runs from September 5-15, 2024.