2022 Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF Tribute Awards The TIFF Tribute Awards, the festival's program of honouring film personnel for their overall achievements in cinema, were presented early during the festival run. The cast of My Policeman—Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, and Rupert Everett—were named as the recipients of one of the two awards for actors, marking the first time the award has been presented to an ensemble cast rather than an individual, while Sam Mendes has been named as the recipient of the Director Award. Brendan Fraser received a Tribute Award for Performance in The Whale. Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir was named the recipient of the Variety Artisan Award, Sally El Hosaini was named the winner of the Emerging Talent Award, and Michelle Yeoh was named the winner of the inaugural Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award. Regular Awards The festival's main awards for films in the festival program, including the People's Choice Award, were presented on September 18. ==Programme==

Gala Presentations Special Presentations Contemporary World Cinema Ulrich Seidl's Sparta was withdrawn by the festival after allegations of child exploitation on set surfaced. TIFF Docs Discovery Platform Midnight Madness Following its premiere on September 14, TIFF was forced to cancel followup screenings of Vera Drew's film ''The People's Joker'' following a rights conflict with Warner Bros. over the film's unauthorized use of The Joker. Primetime Short Cuts Wavelengths Festival at Home A selection of films from the above programs that was available for home viewing through the Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox platform. Industry Selects Films that were available for screening by film buyers and industry professionals, but not open to the general public. Festival Street Older movies that were shown at the OLG Cinema Park, an open-air cinema run by TIFF at David Pecaut Square. Many featured actors and/or directors involved with TIFF 2022 selections. TIFF Cinematheque ==Canada's Top Ten==

The festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list, collecting the films named as the top Canadian films of the year by critics and film festival programmers from across Canada, was released on December 8, 2022. Feature films • Black Ice — Hubert Davis • Brother — Clement Virgo • Crimes of the Future — David Cronenberg • I Like Movies — Chandler Levack • Riceboy Sleeps — Anthony Shim • Rosie — Gail Maurice • Something You Said Last Night — Luis De Filippis • This House (Cette maison) — Miryam Charles • To Kill a Tiger — Nisha Pahuja • Viking — Stéphane Lafleur Short films • Belle River — Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin • Bill Reid Remembers — Alanis Obomsawin • The Flying Sailor — Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis • Lay Me by the Shore — David Findlay • Municipal Relaxation Module — Matthew Rankin • Nanitic — Carol Nguyen • No Ghost in the Morgue — Marilyn Cooke • Same Old — Lloyd Lee Choi • Simo — Aziz Zoromba • Violet Gave Willingly — Claire Sanford ==References==