Jamie Lee Curtis has watched her profession hit one other excessive this 12 months, not solely wrapping up her four-decade-plus affiliation with the Halloween franchise and her iconic function as Laurie Strode, but additionally because the wacky tax auditor Deidre Beaubeirdre in one of many licensed smash essential and viewers hits of the 12 months, Every little thing All over the place All At As soon as. It appears the time for a tribute is certainly so as, and that’s precisely what she’s going to get on February 11 when she receives the best award the Santa Barbara Movie Pageant palms out: the Maltin Fashionable Grasp Award.
The award is known as for famed movie critic, creator and historian Leonard Maltin, who shall be conducting the in-person dialog onstage with Curtis on the Arlington Theatre.
“Jamie Lee Curtis has lengthy since confirmed that she has endurance. Individuals wish to watch her, whether or not it’s in a Halloween film or an offbeat character function. She’s gifted and charismatic, and within the course of does her movie-star mother and father proud,” stated Maltin.
Curtis has demonstrated her versatility as a movie actress, starring in acclaimed movies such because the blockbuster True Lies, for which she received a Golden Globe; Buying and selling Locations, for which she earned a BAFTA for Finest Supporting Actress; A Fish Referred to as Wanda, for which she obtained duel Finest Actress nominations from BAFTA and the Golden Globes; and the Disney characteristic movie Freaky Friday, for which she obtained a Golden Globe nomination. In 2021, she obtained the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on the Venice Movie Pageant.
Amongst latest hits was 2019’s Knives Out. Along with her performing profession on the large display screen and tv, Curtis is a bestselling youngsters’s ebook creator having written 13 books.
The Fashionable Grasp Award was established in 1995 to honor a person who has enriched our tradition via accomplishments within the movement image business. It was re-named the Maltin Fashionable Grasp Award in 2015 to acknowledge Maltin’s lengthy affiliation with SBIFF. Previous recipients embrace Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Invoice Murray, Brad Pitt, Glenn Shut, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Bruce Dern, Ben Affleck, Christopher Plummer, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, Cate Blanchett, Will Smith, George Clooney and Peter Jackson.
The thirty eighth Santa Barbara Movie Pageant will happen reside February 8-18. Official occasions together with screenings, filmmaker Q&As, business panels, and movie star tributes shall be held all through town.
