Maltin Modern Master Award Adam Sandler
Thu, Feb 05
|The Arlington Theatre
41st Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Time & Location
Feb 05, 2026, 8:00 PM
The Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
About the event
The Modern Master Award was established in 1995. Created to honor an individual who has enriched our culture through accomplishments in the motion picture industry, it was re-named the Maltin Modern Master Award in 2015 in honor of long-time SBIFF moderator and renowned film critic Leonard Maltin. Past recipients include Academy Award-winning actors Angelina Jolie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, Robert Downey Jr., Denzel Washington, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, and Christopher Plummer, and acclaimed filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, Clint Eastwood, and Peter Jackson.