‘Women Talking’ Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir & ‘The Swimmers’ Filmmaker Sally El Hosaini Set As 2022 TIFF Tribute Award Honorees
deadline.comThe Toronto Film Festival has named Oscar-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (Women Talking) and award-winning Welsh Egyptian filmmaker Sally El Hosaini (The Swimmers) as honorees of the 2022 TIFF Tribute Awards, which return to an in-person gala fundraiser for its fourth edition at Fairmont Royal York Hotel on September 11th.
The former will receive the TIFF Artisan Award, with the latter claiming the TIFF Emerging Talent Award.The TIFF Artisan Award recognizes a distinguished creative who has excelled at their craft and made an outstanding contribution to cinema and entertainment.
Previous recipients include Ari Wegner in 2021; Terence Blanchard in 2020; and Roger Deakins in 2019. The TIFF Emerging Talent Award, most recently bestowed on Danis Goulet, Tracey Deer and Mati Diop, is presented in the spirit of Torontonian Mary Pickford, the groundbreaking actor, producer and co-founder of United Artists, whose impact continues to be felt today.Guðnadóttir won her first Oscar in 2020 for her work on Todd Phillips’ Joker, becoming just the third woman in history to nab the Academy’s composer prize.
She most recently penned the scores for a pair of buzzy awards prospects set to bow on this year’s festival circuit: Todd Field’s Cate Blanchett starrer TÁR for Focus Features, which makes its world premiere in Venice, and Sarah Polley’s Women Talking for MGM’s Orion Pictures and United Artists Releasing, which will be unveiled in Toronto on September 13.Set in the international world of classical music, the first film is an examination of Lydia Tár (Blanchett), the first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra, who is widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors.
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