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The home stretch! The 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival heading into its final days

Some of Hollywood's biggest names will return to Santa Barbara for the 2024 Santa Barbara Inter
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
Some of Hollywood's biggest names will return to Santa Barbara for the 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival February 4-14, 2026.

Tributes to Zoe Saldana, Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, and Colman Domingo still on tap.

We are moving into the home stretch of the 40th anniversary edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Tuesday night, the Arlington Artist of the Year award will go to Timothee Chalamet for his role as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. His performance earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

Wednesday night, Academy Award nominee Zoe Saldana will be honored with the festival’s America Riviera Award. She’s been getting rave reviews for her role in the acclaimed move Emilia Perez.

Thursday night, the festival will present its Cinema Vanguard Award to Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce, who star in The Brutalist. Brody received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for the movie and Pearce a Best Supporting Actor nomination.

And then Friday night, Oprah Winfrey will be on hand to present the festival’s Montecito Award to Coleman Domingo. He’s a Best Actor nominee for the movie Sing Sing.

The festival runs through Saturday.

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.