Catherine O'Hara Weeps Reuniting with Eugene Levy from Schitt's Creek

Catherine O’Hara was honored with the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award at the Toronto International Film Festival Awards on Sunday night.

The award was presented to the 71-year-old longtime actress by her former Schitt’s Creek co-star Eugene Levy, 78.

She was visibly moved as Levy handed the golden memento to her before she made a moving acceptance speech.

‘Eugene, that’s too much. Thank you, darling,’ she said after the actor’s introduction.

The Home Alone star went on to remark, ‘Darling Eugene. When I think of my happiest days in this adventure in show business, I realize most of them have been with you.’

The two entertainers work together stretches back to the 70s, when they first appeared together on screen in the Canadian sketch comedy series Second City Television.

Catherine O’Hara was honored with the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award at the Toronto International Film Festival Awards on Sunday night

The award was presented to the 71-year-old longtime actress by her former Schitt’s Creek co-star Eugene Levy, 78

They went on to star in the 1996 comedy-musical Waiting For Guffman, which Levy co-wrote with Christopher Guest.

In the 2000 dog show satire Best in Show, they played the couple Gerry and Cookie Fleck.

2003 saw the dynamic duo appear alongside each other in the mockumentary A Mighty Wind, centered around a fictional folk music reunion concert.

And in 2006 they were part of another mockumentary called For Your Consideration, which spoofed Hollywood, with O’Hara playing an actress and Levy starring as her fictional co-star’s agent.

Catherine arrived to Sunday’s event in a long-sleeved champagne-colored gown with black floral embroidery throughout.

Her blonde hair was styled in a chic bob and she wore thick, black-framed eyeglasses as she delivered her thank you speech.

‘Thank you Toronto International Film Festival, formerly Festival of Festivals,’ she began.

‘From trying to weasel my way into the parties of yours 50 years ago to this? Thank you,’ she said, making the audience laugh.

She was visibly moved as Levy handed the golden memento to her before she made a moving acceptance speech

‘Eugene, that’s too much. Thank you, darling,’ she said after the actor’s introduction. The Home Alone star went on to remark, ‘Darling Eugene. When I think of my happiest in this adventure in show business, I realize most of them have been with you’

Catherine arrived in a long-sleeved champagne-colored gown with black floral embroidery throughout

She went on to describe the award’s namesake Norman Jewson as ‘a delightful man’ and ‘someone who cared deeply about the stories he told,’ based on interviews she was able to study online.

O’Hara then highlighted parallels between her and the filmmaker, noting their mutual Toronto heritage and both having trained with the CBC.

Other honorees included at the awards ceremony were Channing Tatum and Idris Elba.

Tatum, 45, received the Performer Award while Elba, 53, took home the Impact Media honor.

Empathy was at the heart of Elba’s acceptance speech.

According to Deadline, he said in part, ‘Even though we don’t really want to talk about it at a celebration of our industry, it is important to acknowledge the pain the world is feeling altogether, and that pain is something that — no matter what you do, whether we make films or you sponsor events like this — you close your eyes at night, you feel that pain because we’re human beings; we’re empaths.’