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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will give its 2017 Virtuosos Awards to actors Aaron Taylor Johnson, Dev Patel, Janelle Monae, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Ruth Negga, Simon Helberg and Stephen Henderson, SBIFF organizers announced on Friday.
The Virtuosos Award is designed to salute performers who have had a breakthrough year, with past recipients including Alicia Vikander, Chadwick Boseman, David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. The awards will be presented on Feb. 4, 2017, at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, as part of the 12-day Santa Barbara Film Festival, which will run from Feb. 1-11.
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Aaron Taylor Johnson’s breakthrough performance this year came in Tom Ford‘s psychological thriller “Nocturnal Animals,” which has screened at film festivals and will be released later in the year. Dev Patel, who first made his mark in “Slumdog Millionaire” nine years ago, starred in Garth Davis‘ “Lion.” Ruth Negga played Mildred Loving, a black woman married to a white man in the South in the 1960s, in Jeff Nichols‘ “Loving.” “The Big Bang Theory” star Simon Helberg moved to the big screen and played Meryl Streep‘s long-suffering accompanist in “Florence Foster Jenkins.” Stephen Henderson moved from Broadway to film in Denzel Washington‘s adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences,” which earned Henderson a Tony nomination.
Janelle Monae, Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris all made their mark in Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” with Monae also starring in the upcoming “Hidden Figures.”
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“This year has been monumental in the breadth of talent breaking through in distinct and emotional roles,” Santa Barbara Film Festival Executive Director Roger Durling said in a statement. “We are excited to honor both new and familiar faces, and look forward to celebrating them and their contribution to the craft.”
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which takes place in the coastal town 100 miles north of Los Angeles, presents a variety of special awards that are seen as ways for awards contenders to get a boost during the period between the announcement of Oscar nominations and the beginning of voting.
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"Kill Your Friends" - Actor Ed Skrein /
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"Spotlight" - Actor Brian d’Arcy James, Writer Josh Singer, Director Tom McCarthy, Actress Rachel McAdams
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"Beasts of No Nation" - Director and Writer Cary Fukunaga
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"Into the Forest" - Actress Evan Rachel Wood
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"The Meddler" - Actress Susan Sarandon
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"February" - Actress Kiernan Shipka
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"February" - Actress Lucy Boynton
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"Desierto" - Actor Gael García Bernal
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"Truth" - Actress Elisabeth Moss
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"I Smile Back" - Actress Sarah Silverman
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"I Smile Back" - Writer Paige Dylan, Writer Amy Koppelman, Director Adam Salky, Actress Sarah Silverman
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"Colonia" - Director Florian Gallenberger, Actor Michael Nyqvist, Actor Daniel Brühl, Producer Benjamin Herrmann
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"Colonia" - Actor Daniel Brühl
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"I Saw the Light" - Actress Elizabeth Olsen
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"Everest" - Director Baltasar Kormákur
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"Miss You Already" - Director Catherine Hardwicke, actress Toni Collette, writer Morwenna Banks
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"Miss You Already" - Director Catherine Hardwicke / Actress Toni Collette
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"Son of Saul" - Actor Geza Röhrig / Director and Writer László Nemes
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"Equals" - Director Drake Doremus
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"Eye in the Sky" - Actor Barkhad Abdi / Director Gavin Hood and actor Barkhad Abdi
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"Into the Forest" - Director Patricia Rozema
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"Septembers of Shiraz" - Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo / "February" - Director and writer Oz Perkins
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"The Program" - Actor Ben Foster
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"The Program" - Director Stephen Frears
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"Desierto" - Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan / Director Jonás Cuarón
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"Desierto" - Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Director Jonás Cuarón, Actor Gael García Bernal
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"Five Nights in Maine" - Actor David Oyelowo
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"I Saw the Light" - Director Marc Abraham
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"The Girl in the Photographs" - Actor Kal Penn, Actress Claudia Lee, Actor Luke Baines, Actress Miranda Rae Mayo
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"The Girl in the Photographs" - Actor Luke Baines / Actress Miranda Rae Mayo
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"Colonia" - Director Florian Gallenberger
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"Colonia" - Actor Michael Nyqvist
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"Truth" - Director James Vanderbilt / Director James Vanderbilt and Actress Elisabeth Moss
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"Hardcore" - Director Ilya Naishuller
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"Being Charlie" - Actor Common
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"The Martian" - Actor Jeff Daniels
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"Being Charlie" - Actor Nick Robinson
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"The Martian" - Actor Donald Glover
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"Room" - Actress Brie Larson
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"The Martian" - Actor Sean Bean
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"The Girl in the Photographs" - Actress Claudia Lee / Director Nick Simon
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"Southbound" - Director Roxanne Benjamin
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"Room" - Writer Emma Donoghue, Actress Brie Larson, Actor Jacob Tremblay, Director Lenny Abrahamson, Actress Joan Allen
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"Southbound" - Director David Bruckner, Editor Tyler Gillett, Director Roxanne Benjamin
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"Being Charlie" - Director Rob Reiner / Writer Nick Reiner
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"This Changes Everything" - Writer Naomi Klein / Director Avi Lewis
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"The Meddler" - Director Lorene Scafaria
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"The Meddler" - Actor J.K. Simmons
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"The Devil's Candy" - Actor Ethan Embry / "The Girl in the Photographs" - Actor Kal Penn
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"Being Charlie" - Actress Susan Misner
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"Being Charlie" - Actor Ricardo Chavira
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"Being Charlie" - Actress Morgan Saylor
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"Being Charlie" - Actor Cary Elwes / Writer Matt Elisofon
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"I Smile Back" - Writer Paige Dylan
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"I Smile Back" - Director Adam Salky / Writer Amy Koppelman
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"Room" - Director Lenny Abrahamson
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"Room" - Actor Jacob Tremblay
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"Room" - Writer Emma Donoghue / Actress Joan Allen
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Susan Sarandon, Common, Jeff Daniels, Sarah Silverman, Gael García Bernal and other stars stopped by TheWrap’s studio at London House