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ADRIEN BRODY AND GUY PEARCE TO BE HONORED WITH CINEMA VANGUARD AWARD AT 40TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2025
{November 12, 2024] SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant is honored to announce that two cinema icons, Adrien Brody and Man Pearce, will obtain the Cinema Vanguard Award on the fortieth annual Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant. Spotlighting their riveting performances in Brady Corbet’s THE BRUTALIST, Brody’s portrayal of Toth highlights an immigrant’s battle to beat his war-torn previous and rebuild his life in a Submit-Battle America. Pearce, in distinction, delivers a chilling, domineering efficiency as a rich artwork patron whose imaginative and prescient of American modernity collides with Toth’s. The strain between the 2 not solely drives the narrative but in addition symbolizes the bigger battle between innovation and custom. Each Adrien Brody and Man Pearce will obtain the celebrated award on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
“Each Adrien and Man have had prolonged, rewarding and uncompromising careers – and on this yr’s THE BRUTALIST – they every give us their finest work to this point,” remarked SBIFF’s Govt Director Roger Durling.
Adrien Brody received the Academy Award and Cesar Award for Finest Actor for his portrayal of real-life Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman in THE PIANIST, making him, to this point, the youngest particular person to have obtained the Oscar in that class.
Over the course of his profession, Brody has labored with a variety of distinguished filmmakers together with Peter Jackson (KING KONG), Ken Loach (BREAD AND ROSES), Barry Levinson (LIBERTY HEIGHTS), and Spike Lee (SUMMER OF SAM). He’s additionally a frequent collaborator of Wes Anderson, having appeared in 5 of Anderson’s movies (THE DARJEELING LIMITED, FANTASTIC MR. FOX, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, THE FRENCH DISPATCH, and ASTEROID CITY).
Man Pearce’s profession has spanned almost 4 a long time in movie, tv, and theatre. Pearce had his worldwide break in THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT. This paved the way in which for iconic roles in critically acclaimed movies akin to LA CONFIDENTIAL; Christopher Nolan’s MEMENTO; John Hillcoat’s The PROPOSITION and LAWLESS; Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS and ALIEN: COVENANT; and Oscar winners THE HURT LOCKER and THE KING’S SPEECH, to call a couple of.
In 2011, Pearce received an Emmy award for his portrayal of Monty Beragon within the Todd Haynes adaption of MILDRED PIERCE for HBO alongside Kate Winslet. Different tv credit embrace the much-loved JACK IRISH, MARE OF EASTTOWN, WHEN WE RISE, THE INNOCENTS, BBC’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and most just lately THE CLEARING with Miranda Otto, and the critically acclaimed A SPY AMONGST FRIENDS.
The Cinema Vanguard Award acknowledges actors who’ve solid their very own path, taking creative dangers and making a big and distinctive contribution to movie. Earlier honorees embrace Paul Giamatti, Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Carey Mulligan, Laura Dern, Michael B. Jordan, William DaFoe, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Rooney Mara, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Jean Dujardin, Bernice Bejo, Nicole Kidman, Peter Sarsgaard, Christoph Waltz, Vera Farmiga, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stanley Tucci and Ryan Gosling.
The fortieth Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant will happen LIVE February 4 – February 15, 2025. Official occasions together with screenings, filmmaker Q&As, business panels, and celeb tributes, can be held at SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre and its new Movie Heart, plus the historic Arlington Theatre. Passes for the 2025 Pageant are on sale now at sbiff.org.
Final yr, the pageant had a program of 200+ movies from over 48 nations with honorary awards feted on Robert Downey Jr., Bradley Cooper, Mark Ruffalo, Jeffrey Wright, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph, Andrew Scott, Martin Scorsese, Justine Triet, Billie Eilish, and Ludwig Göransson.
A-list and business company will as soon as once more ascend to Santa Barbara, making it a must-stop location on the awards circuit, and delivering a report variety of movies with many World and U.S. premieres. The movie lineup and schedule can be introduced January 2025.
Concerning the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant
The Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant (SBIFF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and academic group devoted to discovering and showcasing the very best in impartial and worldwide cinema. Over the previous 39 years, SBIFF has change into one of many high 10 movie festivals in the USA – attracting 100,000 attendees and providing 11 days of 200+ movies, tributes and symposiums, fulfilling their mission to interact, enrich, and encourage the Santa Barbara neighborhood via movie.
SBIFF continues its dedication to training and the neighborhood all through many free academic applications and occasions. SBIFF’s applications assist over 18,000 youngsters, college students and households in our area people by introducing movie as an artwork kind to younger youngsters with applications like AppleBox and Mike’s FieldTrip to the Films; instructing movie evaluation to highschool and school college students with applications like Rosebud and the Movie Research Program; and instructing the craft of screenwriting and filmmaking with Movie Camp and 10-10-10 Mentorship applications. Most significantly SBIFF’s applications are all the time directed in direction of the under-represented and under-served communities inside Santa Barbara County.
Extra just lately, SBIFF secured a long-term lease for the long-lasting multi-plex at 916 State Avenue within the coronary heart of downtown Santa Barbara. This landmark acquisition paves the way in which for the creation of a state-of-the-art Movie Heart — a vibrant, year-round vacation spot that may function a central hub for cinema lovers and the center of SBIFF’s famend Movie Pageant. Constructing on the success of the Riviera Theatre revitalization in 2016 and the opening of its personal Training Heart in 2019 within the downtown space, SBIFF continues to strengthen its dedication to the cultural material of Santa Barbara.
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