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    Santa Barbara Film Festival to honor Haim, DeBose, 6 others

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    This combination of photos shows honorees for the Virtuosos Award by the the 37th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, top row from left, Caitriona Balfe in "Belfast," Ariana Debose in "West Side Story," Jamie Dornan in "Belfast," Alana Haim in "Licorice Pizza," bottom row from left, Emilia Jones in "CODA", Troy Kotsur in "CODA," Simon Rex in "Red Rocket," and Saniyya Sidney in "King Richard." (Focus Features/20th Century Studios/Focus Features/MGM/Apple TV+, Apple TV+, A24/Warner Bros. via AP)

    By Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer

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    "West Side Story's" Ariana DeBose, "Licorice Pizza's" Alana Haim and "Belfast's" Caitriona Balfe are among the actors who will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Virtuosos Award this year. Festival organizers plan to give out the honors at an in-person event in the coastal California town on March 5. 

    The eight actors singled out for the award include newcomers, like Saniyya Sidney who plays Venus Williams in "King Richard" and "CODA's" Emilia Jones and Troy Kotsur, as well as more familiar faces, like Simon Rex ("Red Rocket") and Jamie Dornan ("Belfast"). 

    The event, hosted by TCM's Dave Karger, will include discussions with the talent — which could be for some a stop on the road to the Oscars on March 27. Karger said these honorees are, "integral parts of the season's most exciting and emotional films." Previous recipients have included Zendaya, Riz Ahmed and Awkwafina. 

    The long-running film festival, now in its 37th year, regularly attracts over 100,000 attendees to the idyllic town for films, panels and tributes. The full lineup for the early March gathering will be unveiled in February. 

    Organizers are planning for the 11-day event to be in-person come March 2, although COVID concerns have once again disrupted many early-year film and awards season events. Last week saw the cancellation of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was set to start this week, and the Sundance Film Festival announced this week that it would pivot to a virtual festival. Both the Academy's Governors Awards and the Critics Choice Awards were postponed from their mid-January dates as well. 

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    An Oscar is lost, then found, after director forced to check it on a flight out of JFK

    Friday, May 1, 2026
    Pavel Talankin, winner of the award for documentary feature film for "Mr. Nobody against Putin," attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on March 15, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

    After being forced to check his Academy Award on a trans-Atlantic flight, recent winner Pavel Talankin's Oscar went missing before an airline tracked it down two days later.

    Talankin, who co-directed the best documentary winner "Mr. Nobody Against Putin," didn't expect to have to check his statuette for a flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport bound for Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. But a Transportation Security Administration agent said it couldn't go on board.

    "At the airport, a TSA agent stopped him and said the Oscar could be used as a weapon," Talankin's co-director, David Borenstein, said Thursday night in a post on Instagram.

    "Pavel didn't have a bag to check it in, so the TSA put the Oscar in a box and sent it to the bottom of the plane," added Borenstein. "It never arrived in Frankfurt."

    After Borenstein's announcement prompted an international outcry, the airline Lufthansa on Friday said it had found the lost Oscar.

    "We can confirm that the Oscar statue has now been located and is safely in our care in Frankfurt," the airline said in statement. "We are in direct contact with the guest to arrange its personal return as quickly as possible. We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused and have apologized to the owner."

    Lufthansa added that an "internal review of the circumstances is ongoing."

    In March, "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" won the Academy Award for best documentary, and Talankin and Borenstein's acceptance speech supplied one of the most memorable moments of the ceremony.

    Talankin — the "Mr. Nobody" of the film — was a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia who captured on video his students' lessons, chants and songs promoting Putin's war in Ukraine. He... Read More

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