Angelina Jolie, who’s getting robust notices for Netflix‘s Maria Callas biopic Maria, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Santa Barbara Movie Competition‘s Maltin Trendy Grasp Award. The glory might be bestowed in a ceremony February 5 as a part of the fest’s fortieth version.
The Santa Barbara pageant runs February 4-15, smack in the midst of movie-awards season, making it a must-stop for expertise. The pageant will roll out extra of its annual honorees quickly.
The Trendy Masters Award honors an “particular person who has enriched our tradition by accomplishments within the movement image business.” Previous recipients embrace Jamie Lee Curtis, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Robert Downey Jr., Denzel Washington, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood and Peter Jackson.
Jolie will attend the ceremony and sit for a Q&A retrospective moderated by Maltin, the longtime critic and SBIFF attendee who had the award renamed after him in 2015.
“Angelina Jolie makes daring selections, each as an actress and as a director,” Maltin stated in a launch Wednesday saying the award. “She units the bar excessive in each disciplines and at all times comes by. I sit up for reviewing her profession together with her in Santa Barbara.”
Jolie, who gained a Supporting Actress Oscar in 2000 for Woman, Interrupted, counts credit together with the Maleficent collection and Salt, and directed, produced and co-wrote 2017’s First They Killed My Father and the upcoming With out Blood. She additionally directed 2014’s Unbroken. She gained the Oscars’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2014.
Maria, which was directed by Pablo Larraín, world premiered on the Venice Movie Competition and stars Jolie because the opera legend in her closing days. It hits choose theaters November 27 earlier than streaming on Netflix starting December 11.
The total 2025 SBIFF lineup and schedule might be launched in January.
