The Toronto Film Festival ushered in the fall awards season on Sunday evening with the first in-person edition of its Tribute Awards in three years at the city’s historic Fairmount Royal York Hotel.“More than any other year this festival might be the most special for me, not because it’s TIFF’s 47th edition, not because we’re screening more than 200 films from across the globe but because we get to welcome the whole film world back to Toronto,” proclaimed festival CEO Cameron Bailey as he kicked off the evening.Honorees this year included the ensemble cast of Michael Grandages’s 1950s love triangle My Policeman, spanning Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett, who were feted with the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance.“We all loved making this film so much and we hope you enjoy it,” said Styles.It remains to be seen whether Styles will be a regular on this year’s awards circuit for My Policeman, but another of the night’s honorees, Brendan Fraser, already seems assured of a place in the race on the back of his performance in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.He arrived at the ceremony from TIFF’s The Whale screening, where it received a rapturous response on a par with its enthusiastic reception in Venice.Samuel D Hunter and Daniel Aronofsky present Brendan Fraser with #TIFF22 Tribute Award For Performance.

Fraser recalls teen years in Toronto and says, receiving an award is "new" – "I am usually the one handing them out" pic.twitter.com/8oHrskZ4iR— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) September 12, 2022“This is new for me.

Normally I am the guy handing these things out. I got pretty good at it. The trick is – left-hand hold, right-hand shake,” joked Fraser as he handled the weighty

Awards Season Kicks-Off Early In Toronto As Harry Styles, Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh Honored

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