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Santa Barbara International Film Festival to honor ten Oscar-nominated artisans

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The 2026 Santa Barbara International Film Festival will take place from February 4 through February 14.

The honorees include everyone from makeup artists to editors. They will receive the festival's Variety Artisans Award on February 7 at the Arlington Theater.

They’re not the big names you see in some of this year’s Academy Award-nominated movies. But they're the artisans who created everything from the visual effects to the musical scores of the Oscar contenders.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced it will honor ten of the craftspeople with the festival’s Variety Artisans Award, presented annually to a group of people who do the behind-the-scenes work on the industry’s most acclaimed films.

The honorees include Jack Fisk for production design on Marty Supreme, Andy Jurgenson for editing on One Battle After Another, and Chris Welker for production sound mixing for Sinners.

See a list of the winners.

All ten people being honored at the February 7 Artisans Award event in Santa Barbara are Oscar nominees.

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.