Posted Aug 23, 2023 3:14pm ET
Updated August 23, 2023 5:13 PM ET
Film director Norman Jewison sits for a portrait in his office at Yorktown Productions Ltd August 8, 2011. in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim
TORONTO – Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison greets his namesake at a private screening room in Toronto.
The Hazelton Hotel in upscale Yorkville announces that it will be naming its 25-seat theater after the 97-year-old Toronto director.
Jewison is known for a string of Hollywood hits, including Oscar-winning “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Moonstruck,” and “In the Heat of the Night,” and he is also a recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999.
The hotel’s Silver Screening Room will officially become the Norman Jewison Cinema with an invitation-only event on September 11 to coincide with the Toronto International Film Festival.
Organizers say high-profile guests, friends and some of Jewison’s staff will be in attendance.
This isn’t the first room at The Hazelton to honor a legendary Canadian artist. The hotel previously named its private dining room after folk musician Neil Young.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on August 23, 2023.
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