Honorees: America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Andrew Scott, Moderated by Dave Karger
withcSURPRISE PERFORMANCE OF OSCAR® NOMINATED SONG "WAHZHAZE" (A SONG FOR MY PEOPLE) FROM KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY SCOTT GEORGE, PERFORMED BY OSAGE TRIBAL SINGERS
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Photo Credit Becky Sapp, Video Credit: Courtesy of SBIFF
39th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival - Virtuosos Award - Honorees, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Andrew Scott
America Ferrera (Barbie)
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Greta Lee (Past Lives)
Charles Melton (May December)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers)
Presenter Jane Lynch (Actress)
Moderator Dave Karger (Turner Classic Movies)
Quotes from the Awards Presentation:
- Speaking about the Barbie script, America Ferrera shared, “From page one it was a delight. It was so unexpected and Noah and Greta’s vision was so singular.”
- Speaking about her monologue in Barbie, America Ferrera said, “What I feel is that it needed to be brought into the culture and I feel so grateful that I go to do that.”
- On the nominations of Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone shared, “I’m so grateful to share this historical nomination with Scott George.”
- Speaking about being the first Native American best actress nominee, “A win for one of us means a win for all of us.”
- Speaking on Celine Song recasting the role of Nora a year later, Greta Lee shared, “It really does reflect the tenets of the movie. I feel so firmly that I have inyeon with the movie.”
- Greta Lee said, “This script was so striking for so many reasons. Both small, urgent, and necessary. Like everything I had been searching for all my life.”
- Charles Melton shared, “I knew that I had to prepare l