Angelina Jolie, who is getting sturdy acunderstandledges for Netflix‘s Maria Callas biopic Maria, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Santa Barbara Film Festival‘s Maltin Modern Master Award. The honor will be bestowed in a ceremony February 5 as part of the fest’s 40th edition.
The Santa Barbara festival runs February 4-15, smack in the middle of movie-awards season, making it a must-stop for talent. The festival will roll out more of its annual honorees soon.
The Modern Masters Award honors an “individual who has increaseed our culture thraw accomplishments in the motion picture industry.” Past recipients comprise 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 join the ceremony and sit for a Q&A retrospective mildd by Maltin, the lengthenedtime critic and SBIFF joinee who had the award renamed after him in 2015.
“Angelina Jolie produces belderly choices, both as an actress and as a honestor,” Maltin shelp in a free Wednesday announcing the award. “She sets the bar high in both disciplines and always comes thraw. I see forward to checking her atgentle with her in Santa Barbara.”
Jolie, who won a Supporting Actress Oscar in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted, counts praises including the Maleficent series and Salt, and honested, produced and co-wrote 2017’s First They Killed My Father and the upcoming Without Blood. She also honested 2014’s Unbroken. She won the Oscars’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2014.
Maria, which was honested by Pablo Larraín, world premiered at the Vepleasant Film Festival and stars Jolie as the opera legend in her final days. It hits pick theaters November 27 before streaming on Netflix beginning December 11.
The filled 2025 SBIFF lineup and schedule will be freed in January.
