Iconic actress Angela Bassett will be the Montecito Award honoree at the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Bassett, most famous for her role on Fox’s hit series “9-1-1,” as well as her Oscar and Emmy nominated roles as Tina Turner on “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and her many roles on “American Horror Story”. , she is the 38th recipient of this lifetime achievement award. A titan of screen, stage, and television, her other credits include “How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” “Waiting to Exhale,” “Malcolm X,” “Sunshine State,” “The Rosa Parks Story,” “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” and “Boyz N the Hood,” which was the first of several on-screen couples with co-star Laurence Fishburne.
Past Montecito Award winners have included Amanda Seyfried, Lupita Nyong’o, Melissa McCarthy, Saoirse Ronan, Isabelle Huppert, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Rush, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Javier Bardem, Bill Condon, and Naomi Watts.
“Millisecond. Bassett has had an illustrious career as an actor, director and producer and in ‘Wakanda Forever’ he reminds us why she is so revered. She is regal, fierce and commanding as Queen Ramonda. We bow,” said the SBIFF executive director. , Roger Durling.
The 38th Santa Barbara International Film Festival will take place live February 8-18, 2023 and the Montecito Award will be presented on February 9. Tickets for the 2023 festival are already on sale at sbiff.org.
