The Montreal World Film Festival Will Pay a Tribute to Jon Voight

MONTREAL, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Murray Weissman & Associates) - Daniele Cauchard and Serge Losique are very proud to announce that a special tribute will be paid to Jon Voight. The great legendary actor will receive a Special Grand Prix of the Americas for a lifetime achievement and the Festival will world premiere the most recent film in which Mr. Voight is starring: Christopher Cain's "September Dawn" with Tamara Hope, Trent Ford, Lolita Davidovich and Terence Stamp. "September Dawn" is a Romeo and Juliet love story told against the background of the real-life infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre in which 120 men, women and children pioneers were massacred by Mormons in Utah on September 11, 1857. Joining Voight in Montreal during the Festival will be "September Dawn's" Cain, Hope, producer Scott Duthie and Executive Producer Patrick Imeson.

Voight, an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee, has had a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. The blond, blue-eyed actor came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, "Midnight Cowboy," for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's "Deliverance," and 1978's "Coming Home," for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor. Voight's impersonation of the late newscaster Howard Cosell, in 2001's biopic "Ali," earned Voight critical raves and his fourth Oscar nomination. Voight's additional slate of upcoming films include "Transformers," "Pride and Glory," "National Treasure II" and "Bratz."

Voight's film debut did not come until 1967, when he took a part in Philip Kaufman's crime fighter spoof, "Fearless Frank." Voight also took a role in 1967's western, "Hour of the Gun," directed by veteran helmer John Sturges. Voight appeared in 1996's blockbuster "Mission: Impossible," based on the popular television series from the 1960s, directed by Brian DePalma and starring Tom Cruise.

In 2001, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." Based on a popular video game, the digital adventuress was played on the big screen by Voight's real-life daughter, Angelina Jolie.