While there is no official start date to Hollywood’s awards season, it certainly feels as if something has begun. And on Thursday the Toronto International Film Festival will kick that feeling into high gear by gathering heavily buzzed about titles from earlier festivals ranging from Sundance to Venice, and adding a whole new crop of contenders to the mix.
Waititi will receive a directing award for “Jojo Rabbit.” Cinematographer Roger Deakins, who shot “The Goldfinch,” will receive an artisan award. Jeff Skoll and David Linde of Participant Media will be recognized for social impact. Actress and filmmaker Mati Diop, at the festival with Netflix’s supernatural romance “Atlantics,” will receive an award for emerging female talent named for Mary Pickford, who was born in Toronto.
“Once we started putting it into place, it all just made sense,” Vicente said. “And so we feel like we see something that we can all do every year and it has a sustainable model. At the same time, we have an opportunity for everyone to be in the same room, not just for one film, but really celebrating a number of talented people in film.”
“I have not thought very much about the expectation until I was done with it, truthfully,” Heller said. “But I guess I have been acutely aware recently of the fact that my first two movies sort of had no expectations going into them. They were like classic underdogs where nobody really thought much of them or of me before they came out. And that was great.
“I’m very hopeful right now that we are on the brink of the future and that this is what cinema is going to look like. It makes sense to me. And that now that the world and America and Hollywood is ready to open those doors, it’s become inescapable. But it does take festivals like Toronto and producers and distributors and everybody working together to say, ‘OK, this is obvious. Let’s get on this boat.
He added, “I think awards movies still have a life. And the tricky thing is if you try and you miss at the accolade circuit, you miss hard, much harder than in previous years. And so the allure of it has created a lot of fallen soldiers. But I still believe that many movies this year are going to have a really beautiful commercial fall theatrically. And that still excites me because that is a way that audiences around the world still discover movies.
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