Brendan Fraser will likely be honored with a TIFF Tribute Award for Efficiency on the 2022 Toronto Movie Pageant’s eponymous gala fundraiser, which is ready for an in-person return at Fairmont Royal York Lodge on Sunday, September 11. The award is available in recognition of Fraser’s work on Darren Aronofsky’s anticipated drama The Whale, which makes its North American premiere in Toronto after bowing in Venice.
The TIFF Tribute Award recognizing Fraser is one in all two appearing awards to be handed out at this 12 months’s gala, with the opposite going to the ensemble of Michael Grandage’s romantic drama, My Policeman, for Amazon. Previous recipients of TIFF’s appearing prize embody Jessica Chastain and Benedict Cumberbatch in 2021; Kate Winslet and Sir Anthony Hopkins in 2020; and Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix in 2019.
The Whale tells the story of Charlie (Fraser), a reclusive English trainer residing with extreme weight problems who makes an attempt to reconnect together with his estranged teenage daughter for one final probability at redemption. The A24 movie primarily based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hunter additionally stars Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins and Samantha Morton. Elevation Photos will function its Canadian distributor.
“Brendan Fraser provides a efficiency of staggering depth, energy, and nuance in The Whale,” stated TIFF CEO, Cameron Bailey “This former Torontonian has been an motion star, a display screen comedian, and a romantic lead. We’re thrilled to welcome him dwelling because the actor behind one of many best performances of the 12 months.”
An award-winning actor with a profession spanning greater than 30 years, Fraser is understood for his portrayal of Rick O’Connell in The Mummy trilogy, and for movies like Journey to the Middle of the Earth, Crash, Bedazzled, George of the Jungle, Glory Daze, Airheads, College Ties and Encino Man, amongst many others. Notable TV credit embody Doom Patrol, Condor, Belief, The Affair and Scrubs. Along with The Whale, Fraser will subsequent be seen in Max Barbakow’s comedy Brothers, produced by Legendary Leisure, and Martin Scorsese’s crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon for Apple.
Additionally on the record of this 12 months’s TIFF Tribute Award honorees is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes, who will obtain the TIFF Ebert Director Award. The forty seventh version of the pageant will happen from September 8-18.
