John Malkovich, a two-time Oscar nominee who gained the Greatest Actor prize at this 12 months’s Venice Movie Competition for his work in Martin McDonagh’s upcoming Wild Horse 9, has been chosen to obtain the Santa Barbara Movie Competition‘s Excellent Performer of the Yr Award.
The distinction might be bestowed in the course of the forty second annual SBIFF, which runs February 3-13, 2027.
Malkovich leads off the awards bulletins from the fest, which has grow to be a valued cease on the movie-awards circuit. Final 12 months, Michael B. Jordan gained the identical award forward of his eventual Greatest Actor Oscar win for Sinners.
Different SBIFF honorees within the class embrace Ralph Fiennes, Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Sacha Baron Cohen, Adam Driver, Rami Malek, Margot Robbie and Allison Janney, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Brie Larson and Saoirse Ronan, Steve Carell, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Viola Davis, James Franco, Colin Firth, Penélope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet and Charlize Theron.
Within the black comedy Wild Horse 9, Malkovich stars with Sam Rockwell as a pair of CIA brokers who journey from Santiago to Easter Island on the eve of the 1973 Chilean coup, confronting their darkish pasts and changing into entangled in present-day conspiracies. The Searchlight Footage pic hits theaters November 6.
“A legendary actor provides this 12 months in Wild Horse 9 his greatest efficiency so far through which he combines pathos, volatility, vulnerability and tenderness,” SBIFF government director Roger Durling mentioned Thursday in a launch saying the award. “It’s a high-wire act that reveals us what a commanding artist he’s, and we’re thrilled to be honoring him with our Excellent Performer of the Yr Award.”
