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Kate Winslet to Be Honored by Toronto Film Festival

16.07.2020 - 17:03

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKate Winslet will have another award to add to her trophy case.The Oscar winner will receive the Tribute Actor Award during the 2020 Toronto Film Festival on Sept.

15.“Kate’s brilliant and compelling on-screen presence continues to captivate, entertain and inspire audiences and actors alike,” TIFF executive director and co-head Joana Vicente said in statement on Thursday morning. “From her earliest work in ‘Heavenly Creatures,’ ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Titanic,’ to ‘Revolutionary Road,’ ‘The Reader,’ ‘Mildred Pierce’ and ‘Steve Jobs,’ to name a few, her on-screen presence is as powerful and courageous as the women she chooses to portray.

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