Guillermo del Toro, Jodie Foster to receive special awards at TIFF Tribute Awards

Guillermo del Toro and Jodie Foster are one of those who receive special awards at the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival.

On September 7, the Toro will receive the Ebert Director Award – recognizing filmmakers who have recognized an illustrated greatness – during the TIFF Tribute Awards.

The Academy Award-winning director will premiere his SCI-Fi function Frankenstein At the festival.

Jodie Foster will receive the Share Her Journey Carrider Award this year and acknowledges women in film who free up the way for others.

The dual Oscar winner will join earlier recipients Cate Blanchett, Patricia Arquette and Michelle Yeoh.

The American Canadian actor Brendan Fraser will serve as an honorary goal of the procedure.

In the meantime, the Japanese writer-director Mitsuyo Miyazaki, also known as Hikari, will be honored with the Emerging Talent Award and South Korean actor and Squid game Star Lee Byung-Hun receives the Special Tribute Award.

TIFF also announced on Thursday that Park Chan-Wook’s comic thriller No other choice Will get his North -American premiere at the festival. It plays Byung-Hun as a middle-aged man in a desperate job hunt after being fired from a role he has had for 25 years.

Tiff runs from 4 to 14 September and will open with John Candy: I likeA documentary about the late Canadian comic strip.