26 More Oscar Nominees Headed To Santa Barbara As Festival Announces Its Panel Participants

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If you are a nominee for an Oscar this year, you are probably making your travel plans to head to Santa Barbara. That is because the Santa Barbara International Film Festival will be taking place from February 7 to 17, and quite frankly if you aren’t there at some point between those dates, you likely aren’t also going to the Academy Awards on March 10. Bradley Cooper, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Giamatti, Robert Downey Jr., and Jeffrey Wright are all receiving various festival awards and tribute evenings, while nominees Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, and America Ferrera are also going to be onstage receiving Virtuoso Awards. The Artisan awards will also be handed out to several Crafts nominees as well. All have been previously announced with only participants in the Director Of The Year evening still tba, but today the festival released names of those nominees who will be taking part in the various Producer, Writers, Womens, and International Panels that will occur over the course of the two weekends the fest is in progress. A whopping additional 26 Academy Award nominees have been set for those, bringing the overall number of nominees headed to Santa Barbara this year to over 50. With Oscar voting beginning just five days after SBIFF ends , it looks like timing is right for the fest to continue its reputation as a must-stop at the end of the very long campaign trail.

All Panels will be in-person at the historic Arlington Theatre. See full list below:

Saturday, February 10 at 11 AM – Producers Panel

Jermaine Johnson, American Fiction David Thion, Anatomy of a Fall David Heyman, Barbie Daniel Lupi, Killers of the Flower Moon Fred Berner, Maestro Emma Thomas, Oppenheimer Christine Vachon, Past Lives Andrew Lowe, Poor Things Mark Johnson, The Holdovers James Wilson, The Zone of Interest

Moderated by Nicole Sperling (THE NEW YORK TIMES)

Saturday, February 10 at 2 PM – International Panel

Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano (Director/Producer/Writer) Wim Wenders, Perfect Days (Director/Producer/Writer) IIker Çatak, The Teachers’ Lounge (Director/Writer) Johnnie Burn, The Zone of Interest (Sound Designer)

Moderated by Roger Durling

Tuesday, February 13 at 8 PM – Writers Panel

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall Samy Burch, May December Josh Singer, Maestro Celine Song, Past Lives Tony McNamara, Poor Things Dave Hemingson, The Holdovers

Moderated by Anne Thompson (INDIEWIRE)

Saturday, February 17 at 11 AM – Women’s Panel

Laura Karpman, American Fiction (Composer) Diane Warren, Flamin’ Hot (Songwriter) Karen Hartley-Thomas, Golda (Hair and Make-up) Julie Zachary, Nimona , (Head of Production at Annapurna Animation) Maite Alberdi, The Eternal Memory (Director/Producer)

Moderated by Madelyn Hammond

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