{"id":891385,"date":"2026-09-14T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891385\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T06:30:10","slug":"toronto-film-festival-tribute-awards-2026-full-winners-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/891385\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Film Festival Tribute Awards 2026: Full Winners List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCanadian comedy actor, producer and writer Seth Rogen<\/a> on Sunday night declared it \u201cominous\u201d to receive a career achievement award from the Toronto Film Festival<\/a> at 44 years of age. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDoes TIFF<\/a> know something I don\u2019t know? You got a letter from my doctors?\u201d he questioned while on stage at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Rogen received a Career Achievement honor at the Tribute Awards at TIFF while in town to tout two movies \u2014 Babies, directed by his wife Lauren Miller Rogen, and\u00a0Tangles, an animated film which Rogen and Miller Rogen produced.<\/p>\n

\n\tRogen thanked his wife for allowing him to piggy back on her success in bringing her film to TIFF in which he stars alongside Anna Kendrick. \u201cThank you all, you can go home now,\u201d he finished off.<\/p>\n

\n\tOscar-winner Helen Mirren<\/a> was also on hand to receive a Groundbreaker Award as she brings the thriller\u00a0A Talent For Murder\u00a0to Toronto for a world premiere. She paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem after their recent passing is still in the news. \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to change culture, but these two women did that. And I dedicate this Groundbreaking Award to them,\u201d Mirren said to wide applause.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso Sunday night, Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong<\/a> picked up the Ebert Director Award as his latest film, Possible Love, his first in eight years,\u00a0arrived in Toronto after a rapturous world premiere in Venice. \u201cPeople sometimes think I\u2019m a younger filmmaker than I actually am, possibly because I haven\u2019t made very many films and, as you can see, my hair is still quite black. But the truth is, I\u2019m quite old,\u201d the Korean director insisted.<\/p>\n

\n\tChang-dong added he should make films more often, \u201cas people will think I\u2019m a younger filmmaker.\u201d Netflix\u00a0has set a theatrical release in Korea, U.S. and other select territories for Possible Love. <\/p>\n

\n\tOscar\u2013winning actor Penelope Cruz<\/a>, accepting a Special Tribute Award as she is on the ground touting two movies in Toronto, the Spanish drama epic\u00a0La Bola Negra\u00a0by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, and Florian Zeller\u2019s\u00a0Bunker,\u00a0both of which premiered in Cannes. <\/p>\n

\n\tCruz cited Bunker for \u201clooking at the shocking inequalities, the individualism, the fear of others, the temptation to retreat into ourselves, and the growing anxiety for the future of our planet.\u201d She also praised La Bola Negra for being about \u201chumanity, about empathy, about seeing the other person as a human being and not as an enemy. It\u2019s also a love letter to cinema, poetry and art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFrench screen icon\u00a0Isabelle Huppert<\/a>\u00a0was presented with another Performer Award on Sunday night as she stars in director Marc Fitoussi\u2019s All About Corrine, which has a North American premiere in Toronto on Monday. \u201cMy films for many years, their beauty, their history, their cruelty sometimes, have had an extraordinary attention to human beings,\u201d she told the TIFF audience. \u201cFor an actor, that\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRosalind Eleazar, star of Chris Rock\u2019s A24 drama Misty Green, when accepting her own Performers Award recalled being at TIFF for the first time in 2019, with The Personal History of David\u00a0Copperfield. And after that glitzy premiere, Eleazar rang her mother in London, England early in the morning to share her memorable experience.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd I promised myself if I came again, she\u2019d come as well. So she\u2019s here with me,\u201d Eleazar said as she pointed to her mother in the Royal York Hotel audience and thanked her for her support over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tCODA filmmaker Sian Heder<\/a> nabbed the Impact Award for Being Heumann, which stars Ruth Madeley as disability rights activist Judy Heumann in the bio-drama about the leader of a historic 1977\u00a0protest campaign. \u201cWhen there\u2019s so little representation out there for a particular community, every piece of work that comes out feels like it needs to make up for decades of being misrepresented,\u201d Heder said when accepting her trophy for her latest film, which opened the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 10 during a gala world premiere. <\/p>\n

\n\tFellow director Bassam Tariq picked up the Rising Talent Award as he brings his latest movie,\u00a0the John Cho-starring action film Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother,\u00a0to Toronto for a world premiere. \u201cI\u2019ve always seen myself as a worker. As a worker, you\u2019re always in service in something bigger than yourself. And for me, the hope is I\u2019m always in service to the truth and in the service of compassion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn other prize giving, cinematographer Adam Pietkiewicz accepted the Artisan Award as he was honored in Toronto for his work on\u00a0Angh, from director Theja Rio. \u201cHe trusted me with my vision, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful that he did. We had an abundance of belief and probably a slightly unhealthy amount of optimism,\u201d Pietkiewicz said in tribute to director Rio for their collaboration. <\/p>\n

\n\tProceeds from the Tribute Awards go towards the festival\u2019s year-round talent development programs that encourage diversity, equity and inclusion in filmmaking. The gala fundraiser also allows A-listers to raise their latest performances and movies as possible award season contenders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian comedy actor, producer and writer Seth Rogen on Sunday night declared it \u201cominous\u201d to receive a career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,2837,83679,438812,141601,18031,447931,18032,396986,396987,18033,29197,460247],"class_list":["post-891385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-helen-mirren","tag-isabelle-huppert","tag-lee-chang-dong","tag-penelope-cruz","tag-seth-rogen","tag-sian-heder","tag-tiff","tag-tiff-2026","tag-toronto-2026","tag-toronto-film-festival","tag-toronto-international-film-festival","tag-toronto-international-film-festival-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}