Stars to descend on Toronto
Aug 23, 2005 by Ian Evans
Attending the final pre-festival press conference usually nets you some more info on the film list and an idea of which stars are comings. The artist list for this year’s 30th Toronto International Film Festival had the jaws of even the most cynical dropping.
Rather than pick’n‘choose, here’s the list TIFF released:
The following filmmakers are expected to attend the Toronto International Film Festival: Hany Abu-Assad, Ashim Ahluwalia, Dylan Akio Smith, Bruce Alcock, Thomas Allen Harris, Michael Almereyda, Laurie Anderson, Kaare Andrews, Louise Archambault, Carlos Armella, Montxo Armendáriz, Robin Aubert, Ute Aurand, David Ayer, Florence Ayisi, Jamie Babbit, Youn-suk Bae, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Noah Baumbach, Wayne Beach, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Emmanuelle Bercot, Fabienne Berthaud, Shane Black, Doug Block, Shonali Bose, João Botelho, Beto Brant, Jason Britski, Adam Brodie, David J. Burke, Tim Burton, Michael Caines, Laurent Cantet, Antonio Capuano, Niki Caro, Joseph Castelo, Michael Caton-Jones, Denis Chabot, Park Chan-wook, David Christensen, Larry Clark, Keith Cole, Denis Côté, Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, David Cronenberg, Cameron Crowe, Michael Cuesta, Jamie M. Dagg, Lee Daniels, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Simon Davidson, deco dawson, Chema de la Peña, Dave Derewlany, Roger Donaldson, Andrea Dorfman, Mark Dornford-May, Róbert I. Douglas, Andreas Dresen, Sam Dunn, William Eggleston, Atom Egoyan, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Bernard Émond, Simon Ennis, Josef Fares, Jeff Feuerzig, Sophie Fillières, Thom Fitzgerald, Anne Fontaine, Alexandre Franchi, Stephen Frears, Christian Frei, Bart Freundlich, Keith Fulton, Sarah Galea-Davis, Victoria Gamburg, Péter Gárdos, Sean Garrity, John Gatins, Ernie Gehr, Dan Geller, Josh Gilbert, Terry Gilliam, Tess Girard, Maxime Giroux, Tómas Gislason, Michael Glawogger, Dayna Goldfine, Michel Gondry, Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, Robert Gordon, Richard E. Grant, Annie Griffin, Philip Groening, Sturla Gunnarsson, Joana Hadjithomas, Curtis Hanson, Arshia Haq, Tsui Hark, Klaus Härö, Mary Harron, John Hazlett, Aram Hekinian, John Hillcoat, Alex Hinton, Pornchai Hongrattanaporn, Gavin Hood, Hermine Huntgeburth, David Hyde, Eugene Jarecki, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Jim Jennings, Anders Thomas Jensen, Renuka Jeyapalan, Neil Jordan, Kevin Jordan, Khalil Joreige, Dorota Kedzierzawska, Fred Kelemen, Allan King, Lynn Marie Kirby, Jon Knautz, Lájos Koltai, Baltasar Kormákur, Stanley Kwan, Julia Kwan, Stéphane Lafleur, Byron Lamarque, Yorgos Lanthimos, Simon Lavoie, Ang Lee, Sook-Yin Lee, Kim Longinotto, Lian Lunson, Michael Mabbott, Lorene Machado, Kathryn MacKay, John Madden, Guy Maddin, Stewart Main, Majid Majidi, Marcin Mamon, James Mangold, Alexi Manis, Laïla Marrakchi, Richard Martin, Rashid Masharawi, Khalo Matabane, Paul Mayeda Berges, Albert Maysles, Scot McFadyen, Scott McGehee, Jim McKay, Don McKellar, Jesse McKeown, Deepa Mehta, Julia Meltzer, Brillante Mendoza, Constant Mentzas, Radu Mihaileanu, Bennett Miller, Mike Mills, Tsai Ming-liang, Shandi Mitchell, Firas Momani, Louis-David Morasse, Matthias Müller, Lee Myung-se, Phyllis Nagy, Aruna Naimji, Christopher R. Nash, Aubrey Nealon, Robin Neinstein, Billy O’Brien, Perry Ogden, Luis Ortega, Don Owen, Davina Pardo, Nick Park, Micha Peled, Louis Pepe, Mariusz Pilis, Marcelo Piñeyro, Udayan Prasad, Maria Procházková, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Barlen Pyamootoo, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Hamid Rahmanian, Mohammad Rasoulof, David Ray, Ryan Redford, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Carlos Reygadas, Guy Ritchie, Alberto Rodríguez, Sebastien Rose, Eli Roth, Stuart Samuels, Im Sang-soo, Ritu Sarin, Wisit Sasanatieng, Carlos Saura, Liev Schreiber, Francisca Schweitzer David Siegel, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ward Serrill, Richard Shepard, Bohdan Sláma, Michael Snow, Steven Soderbergh, Pablo Solís, Julia Solomonoff, Mingmongkol Sonakul, Tenzing Sonam, Greg Spottiswood, Jeff Stanzler, Scott Stark, Joshua Michael Stern, Alex Steyermark, Matthew Swanson, Adam Swica, Danis Tanović, Gary Tarn, Astra Taylor, Stanley Tong, Jamie Travis, Fien Troch, Ricardo Trogi, Anand Tucker, Duncan Tucker, Ross Turnbull, John Turturro, Alexey Uchitel, David Uloth, Jean-Marc Vallée, Gabriel Velázquez, Anne Villacèque, Clement Virgo, Andrucha Waddington, Erwin Wagenhofer, Vincent Ward, Sarah Watt, Larry Weinstein, Jake West, Nicolas Winding Refn, Michael Winterbottom, Jessica Joy Wise, Rowan Woods, Stephen Woolley, Joe Wright, Zhang Yang, Ning Ying, Wilson Yip, Dionysius Zervos, and Tom Zuber.
The Toronto International Film Festival® also welcomes the best international stars. The list of actors and special guests of the Festival, including documentary subjects, are: John Abraham, Kristen Adams, Danny Aiello, Ayad Akhtar, Michael Angarano, Kevin Bacon, Liane Balaban, Alec Baldwin, Eric Balfour, Juan José Ballesta, Jay Baruchel, Sean Bean, Camilla Belle, Maria Bello, Annette Bening, Andre Benjamin, Juliette Binoche, Seema Biswas, Jolene Blalock, Rachel Blanchard, Cate Blanchett, Brenda Blethyn, Orlando Bloom, Helena Bonham Carter, Lindy Booth, David Boreanaz, JR Bourne, Jeff Bridges, Krista Bridges, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Pierce Brosnan, Rob Brydon, Geneviève Bujold, Jackie Burroughs, Arabella Bushnell, Gerard Butler, Gabriel Byrne, Marcello Cabezas, Michel Côté‚ Antonio Canales, Jesús Carroza, Isabelle Carr‚ Nick Cave, Caroline Cave, Jackie Chan, Joan Chen, Sammi Cheng, Jonas Chernick, Margaret Cho, Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso, Tommy Chong, Babz Chula, Presley Chweneyagae, Leonard Cohen, Toni Collette, Clifton Collins Jr., Steve Coogan, LL Cool J, Douglas Coupland, Billy Crudup, Jane Curtin, Elisha Cuthbert, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bryce Dallas Howard, Claire Danes, Bruce Daniels, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Zooey Deschanel, Caroline Dhavernas, Cameron Diaz, Martin Donovan, Robert Downey Jr., David Duchovny, Kirsten Dunst, Aaron Eckhart, Sam Elliot, Jonan Everett, Patricia Fagan, Edie Falco, Dakota Fanning, Jodelle Ferland, Will Ferrell, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Brendan Fletcher, Morgan Freeman, Kelli Garner, Ben Gazzara, Frank Gehry, Richard Gere, Marie Gillian, Cuba Gooding Jr., Macha Grenon, Rachel Griffiths, Luis Guzmán, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jake Gyllenhaal, William H. Macy, Sun Haiying, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hazel, Kim Hee Seon, Martin Henderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kris Holden-Ried, Ashton Holmes, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Felicity Huffman, William Hurt, Eugene Hutz, Joris Jarsky, Tommy Lee Jones, Hu Jun, Peter Kastner, Abdellatif Kechiche, Catherine Keener, Bruce Kidd, Val Kilmer, Greg Kinnear, Keira Knightly, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Lange, Hanna Laslo, Isild Le Besco, Heath Ledger, Lauren Lee Smith, Kris Lemche, Sarah Lind, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Alison Lohman, Eva Longoria, Sunny Mabrey, Matthew Macfadyen, Daniel MacIvor, Shirley MacLaine, Andy Maize, Steve Martin, Trevor Matthews, Dylan McDermott, Frances McDormand, Bruce McGill, Debra McGrath, Sir Ian McKellen, Mads Mikkelsen, Max Minghella, Liza Minnelli, Colin Mochrie, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Monaghan, Fernanda Montenegro, Julianne Moore, Louis-David Morasse, Viggo Mortensen, Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Matt Murphy, Cillian Murphy, Brittany Murphy, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Nixon, Michelle Nolden, Nick Nolte, Eduardo Noriega, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vincent Pastore, Josh Peace, Guy Pearce, Barry Pepper, Piper Perabo, Joaquin Phoenix, Rosamund Pike, Joe Pingue, Benoît Poelvoorde, Sarah Polley, Louise Portal, Natalie Portman, Lou Pucci, Charlotte Rampling, Lisa Ray, Keanu Reeves, Jeremy Renner, Bjarne Riis, John Robinson, Freddy Rodrìguez, Isabella Rossellini, Tygh Runyan, Kurt Russell, Sarala, Jason Schwartzman, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mallika Sherawat, Elisabeth Shue, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Sarah Silverman, Michael Snow, Jason Statham, Paprika Steen, Julia Stiles, Kiefer Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, Lilian Taublib, Charlize Theron, Ulrich Thomsen, Justin Timberlake, Fernanda Torres, Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway, Vince Vaughn, Karin Viard, Julie Walters, Lesley Ann Warren, Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, Aaron Webber, Courtenay Webber, Samantha Weinstein, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Elijah Wood, Robin Wright Penn, Vivian Wu, Karen Young, and Kevin Zegers.
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