2019 Toronto International Film Festival#Contemporary World Cinema

In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival also announced the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards, a special program to honour distinguished lifetime achievement in film.[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2019/07/26/meryl-streep-get-new-acting-award-at-toronto-gala.html "Meryl Streep to get new acting award at Toronto gala"]. Associated Press via the Toronto Star, 26 July 2019. Tribute Awards were presented to Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix for acting, Taika Waititi for directing, cinematographer Roger Deakins for artisan film craft, Mati Diop for emerging talent, Participant Media for impact media, and David Foster for special contributions to film.[https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/09/09/joaquin-phoenix-meryl-streep-among-recipients-of-inaugural-tiff-tribute-awards/ "Joaquin Phoenix, Meryl Streep among recipients of inaugural TIFF Tribute awards"]. CityNews, 9 September 2019.

The first award recipients were announced on 12 September,[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2019/09/13/the-film-martin-eden-wins-tiffs-platform-prize.html "The film Martin Eden wins TIFF’s Platform Prize"]. Toronto Star, 13 September 2019. with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 September.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/09/toronto-film-festival-2019-winners-martin-eden-murmur-how-to-build-a-girl-1202733120/ |title=Toronto Film Festival Jury Winners: 'Martin Eden', 'Murmur', 'How To Build A Girl' |work=Deadline Hollywood|date=12 September 2019 |last=Hipes|first=Patrick|access-date=12 September 2019}} In light of the fact that international filmmakers are rarely still in Toronto to accept their awards in person by the end of the festival, the organizers opted to cancel the traditional awards ceremony, and instead announced the award winners through TIFF's social media.{{cite news | first=Etan | last=Vlessing | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tiff-2019-cancels-awards-ceremony-announce-winners-social-media-1239169/ | title=Toronto Film Festival Cancels Awards Ceremony | magazine=The Hollywood Reporter | date=12 September 2019 | accessdate=8 August 2022}}

Nicolas Cage was awarded with the Creative Coalition's Spotlight Initiative Award for his role in Color Out of Space.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-nicolas-cage-tells-spotlight-initiative-awards-art-is-healthiest-medicine-1237946|title=Toronto: Nicolas Cage Tells Spotlight Initiative Awards Art Is "Healthiest Medicine"|work=The Hollywood Reporter|first=Christos|last=Tsirbas|date=8 September 2019|access-date=22 November 2019}}

The selection for the 2019 festival:{{cite news |url=https://deadline.com/2019/07/toronto-film-festival-2019-tom-hanks-christian-bale-matt-damon-joaquin-phoenix-the-joker-meryl-streep-eddie-murphy-dolemite-daniel-craig-knives-out-1202650850/ |title=Toronto Fest 2019 Starpower: Hanks' Mr Rogers, Bale-Damon's Ford V Ferrari, Phoenix' Joker, Streep's Laundromat, Eddie Murphy's Dolemite, Daniel Craig's Knives Out, Kidman's Goldfinch Among Premieres |first=Mike Jr. |last=Fleming |date=23 July 2019 |access-date=23 July 2019 |website=Deadline Hollywood }}[https://deadline.com/2019/07/david-foster-toronto-film-festival-world-premiere-documentary-1202656962/ TIFF Adds World Premiere Of Docu ‘David Foster: Off The Record’]. Deadline Hollywood, 30 July 2019.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/08/toronto-film-festival-the-aeronauts-mosul-seberg-kristen-stewart-ore-to-festival-slate-1202667020/ |title=Toronto Adds The Aeronauts, Mosul, Seberg, & More To Festival Slate |work=Deadline |access-date=16 August 2019}}

TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list, its national critics and festival programmers poll of the ten best feature and short films of the year, was released on 11 December 2019.Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/tiff-top-10-canadian-films-2019/ "TIFF announces Canada's top 10 films of 2019"]. Now, 11 December 2019.

• And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) – Louise Archambault
• Anne at 13,000 Ft. – Kazik Radwanski
• Antigone – Sophie Deraspe
• Black Conflux – Nicole Dorsey
• The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open – Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
• Matthias & Maxime – Xavier Dolan
• Murmur – Heather Young
• One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk – Zacharias Kunuk
• The Twentieth Century – Matthew Rankin
• White Lie – Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis

• Acadiana – Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin
• Cityscape – Michael Snow
• Delphine – Chloé Robichaud
• Docking – Trevor Anderson
• I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain – Sofia Banzhaf
• Jarvik – Émilie Mannering
• No Crying at the Dinner Table – Carol Nguyen
• The Physics of Sorrow – Theodore Ushev
• Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You – Brandon Cronenberg
• Throat Singing in Kangirsuk (Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi) – Eva Kaukai and Manon Chamberland

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• [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000659/2019 2019 Toronto International Film Festival] at IMDb

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