Colin Firth to Be Honored in Santa Barbara

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man

Colin Firth, the star of Tom Ford’s A Single Man, will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance of the Year Award at Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre on Feb.13, 2010.
In A Single Man, the 49-year-old Firth plays a grieving, gay college professor in the Los Angeles of the early 1960s. His lover (Matthew Goode) has just died and he is seriously considering ending his own life. Also in the cast: Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult.
Earlier this year, Firth won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival, and is one of the strongest contenders to land a best actor Academy Award nomination come next February.
Among Colin Firth’s [...]

by Michelle Hutton | October 28, 2009   
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Kate Winslet to Be Honored

The Santa Barbara Film Festival has announced that Kate Winslet will receive the Montecito Award, which honors "a performer who has given a series of classic and standout performances in his/her career."
The Montecito Award Tribute to Kate Winslet will be held on Friday, January 23, at the Arlington Theatre, with a multimedia presentation produced by Paul Fagen of P. Fagen Productions.
2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival honorees.
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"It is Kate Winslet’s face and Kate Winslet’s face alone that looks out from the cover of the new ‘now a major motion picture’ paperback edition of Bernhard Schlink’s exceptional novel, The Reader, and that’s as it should be," writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.
"For [...]

by Deborah Arthur | December 11, 2008   
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