2025 SBIFF Variety Artisans Awards
8:00PM - ARLINGTON THEATRE - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Now in its eleventh year, Variety‘s partnership with the Santa Barbara Film Festival celebrates the artisans who have showcased the most innovative work of the year in their craft.
“This is a difficult time for the city I call home, Los Angeles. We are all thankful to the first responders and firefighters. As people have come out to volunteer and donate during this time, the power of resilience and community has really been felt throughout. And community is what binds us. I’m grateful to Roger and the festival for bringing the L.A. and Santa Barbara communities together. I’m grateful for the artisans we are honoring. Art has always brought people together in tough times, and so, with this festival, Roger and the artisans, may it connect us and allow us to celebrate the films and music and slowly help us heal,” said Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay.
Credit: Variety
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.
The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
Four remarkable women pursue happiness in Jacques Audiard's audacious, genre-defying film that unfolds through a fever dream of original songs and dance.
The pope is dead. The throne is vacant. From director Edward Berger, CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting the new Pope.
From Academy Award Nominee RaMell Ross comes “A New American Masterpiece”.
Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN.
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You've got to try this new product. It changed my life.
After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event this holiday season.
Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows.
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