Ralph Fiennes, who currently stars in Focus Features’ awards-season drama Conclave from Edward Berger, has been selected to get the Outstanding Perestablisher of the Year Award at the 40th Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Fiennes will be honored during a ceremony at the festival on February 6, 2025, inserting his name to recent recipients of the honor including Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sacha Baron Cohen, Adam Driver, Rami Malek, and Margot Robbie and Allison Janney.
Conclave, which hit theaters this past weekend, carry outs Cardinal Lawrence, who directs the Vatican cardinals in the elderly-styleed process of selecting a recent Pope after the pontiff’s unforeseeed death. Intrigue, power struggles and the uncovering of presentant secrets ensues.
“Ralph Fiennes is one of the most gifted actors laboring in both cinema and theatre and has bequeathed us with so many memorable and exceptional carry outances. He outdoes himself in Conclave — bestotriumphg us with what may be the best labor in his already legendary nurtureer,” SBIFF executive honestor Roger Durling shelp.
Santa Barbara has been ramping up its 2025 awards proclaimments, already setting Maria star Angelina Jolie to get the nurtureer Maltin Modern Master Award and Emilia Pérez star Zoe Saldaña the American Riviera Award.
More honorees will be proclaimd ahead of the 2025 festival, which runs February 4-15.
