Angelina Jolie Set For TIFF Tribute Award In Impact Media

Academy Award–winning actor-turned-filmmaker Angelina Jolie is set to receive the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey announced on Tuesday.

Jolie will receive the award at the 2024 TIFF Tribute Awards, taking place at Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Sunday, September 8, while in town for the world premiere of her latest directorial effort, Without Blood, a war drama based on the book of the same name by Alessandro Baricco, which stars Salma Hayek and Demián Bechir.

Previously bestowed upon the likes of Pedro Almodóvar, Mira Nair, and Alanis Obomsawin, the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media is presented by Anne-Marie Canning and recognizes leadership in creating a union between social impact and cinema. Other honorees set for the TIFF fundraising gala, for which Sandra Oh is serving as the inaugural Honorary Chair, include Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Durga Chew-Bose, David Cronenberg, Clément Ducol and Camille, Jharrel Jerome, Mike Leigh, and Zhao Tao.

“Angelina Jolie is a multifaceted talent who has entertained audiences for decades while consistently using her platform to champion important causes. We’re honoured to present her with the 2024 TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media,” Bailey said today. “This award recognizes her exceptional achievements in filmmaking, and her unwavering commitment for positive change, solidifying her status as a veritable humanitarian and global force to be reckoned with.”

Lauded by TIFF for her long history of humanitarian work and her dedication to social justice, on display in works like Unbroken and In the Land of Blood and Honey, Jolie returns to TIFF after stopping in to screen her 2017 film First They Killed My Father. Prior to that, she’d been on hand with The Breadwinner, the Oscar-nominated animated feature from Nora Twomey, which she exec produced. A Tony Award–winning producer, Jolie is best known on the acting front for turns in films like Girl, Interrupted, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Maleficent and Changeling. Most recently seen in titles like Eternals and Those Who Wish Me Dead, she’ll next be seen starring in Pablo Larraín’s Maria, a biopic of opera singer Maria Callas, which premieres at the New York Film Festival later this year.

The 49th edition of the Toronto Film Festival will run from September 5–15.