Poland’s Camerimage Movie Pageant has launched a brand new award to honor performances on the small display screen and can hand the inaugural gong to Shōgun actor Hiroyuki Sanada.
Hiroyuki will obtain the award on the competition’s thirty second version, which runs November 16 to 23.
Hiroyuki is one in all Japan’s most profitable worldwide exports with over fifty movie credit. Past Shōgun, he’s maybe finest recognized for his main function in The Twilight Samurai (2002, dir. Yôji Yamada), which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Alongside appearing in Shōgun, Hiroyuki additionally produces the FX present. He earned two Emmy nominations for the sequence, Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama and Excellent Drama Sequence. The present additionally clocked a number of Tv Critics Affiliation Award nominations, together with Program of the Yr.
Hiroyuki was final seen on the massive display screen in John Wick: Chapter 4 reverse Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yen. Earlier than that, he appeared within the Sony Footage’ motion function, Bullet Prepare (2022), reverse Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock. A few of his different credit embody The Final Samurai (2003) reverse Tom Cruise, The Wolverine (2013), 47 Ronin (2013), Avengers Endgame (2019), and Minions (2015).
Hiroyuki is the most recent honoree introduced by the fest. Earlier this month, the competition introduced that British filmmaker Steve McQueen might be feted at this 12 months’s Camerimage Movie Pageant with the Excellent Director Award for profession achievement.
McQueen’s newest function Blitz will open the London Movie Pageant in October. Directed, produced, and written by McQueen, the movie follows the epic journey of George, a 9-year-old boy in World Warfare II London whose mom Rita sends him to security within the English countryside. The Synopsis reads: George, defiant and decided to return residence to Rita and his grandfather Gerald in East London, ensues on an journey, solely to search out himself in immense peril, whereas a distraught Rita searches for her lacking son. Blitz marks McQueen’s first sole function screenwriting credit score.
The movie stars Saoirse Ronan and newcomer Elliott Heffernan, with Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham rounding out the solid.
