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Actress and director Angelina Jolie to be honored by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Actress and director Angelina Jolie will be honored with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Maltin Modern Master Award.
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Actress and director Angelina Jolie will be honored with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Maltin Modern Master Award.

Jolie will receive the festival's Maltin Modern Master Award on Feburary 5.

Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie is going to be honored at the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

The actress will receive the festival’s Maltin Modern Master Award February 5.

Jolie starred in acclaimed films like Girl, Interrupted, Salt, and Disney’s Maleficent series. She directed the Oscar nominated movie Unbroken. She stars in the critically acclaimed new movie Maria, in which she portrays famed opera singer Maria Callas.

Past recipients of the Maltin Award include Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood and Nicole Kidman.

The 40th anniversary edition of the Santa Barbara festival will take place February 4-15, 2025.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.