{"id":8085152,"date":"2026-09-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=8085152"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:43:56","slug":"john-malkovich-santa-barbara-film-festival-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/awards\/john-malkovich-santa-barbara-film-festival-award\/","title":{"rendered":"John Malkovich to Receive Performer of the Year Award at Santa Barbara Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

John Malkovich will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 2027 Santa Barbara International Film Festival,\u00a0SBIFF organizers announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malkovich will receive the award for his performance in Martin McDonagh\u2019s \u201cWild Horse Nine,\u201d in which he and Sam Rockwell play CIA agents who travel from Chile to Easter Island in the run-up to the 1973 Chilean coup that overthrew the Salvador Allende government. His comic performance as a man planning to write a book that could spill CIA secrets has made him one of the frontrunners in this year\u2019s Oscar Best Actor race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Searchlight film had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where Malkovich won the best actor award from a jury headed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d also screened at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals before its Nov. 6 theatrical release.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cA legendary actor gives \u2026 his best performance to date in which he combines pathos, volatility, vulnerability and tenderness,\u201d SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s a high wire act that shows us what a commanding artist he is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malkovich has been nominated for Academy Awards for \u201cPlaces in the Heart\u201d and \u201cIn the Line of Fire,\u201d and has also appeared in \u201cDangerous Liasons,\u201d \u201cThe Killing Fields,\u201d \u201cBurn After Reading,\u201d \u201cCon Air,\u201d \u201cShadow of the Vampire,\u201d \u201cIn the Hand of Dante\u201d and \u201cBeing John Malkovich.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past winners of the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award include Michael B. Jordan, Cate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper, Adam Driver, Jennifer Lawrence and Viola Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award will be presented to Malkovich on Feb. 12, 2027. The 42nd annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival will run from Feb. 3 through Feb. 13 in the coastal town north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The “Wild Horse Nine” star will be honored on Feb. 12 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1482,"featured_media":7982745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"byline":{"profiles":[{"type":"byline_id","atts":{"term_id":504357,"post_id":7302600}}]},"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"nb_breaking_email_type":"","nb_breaking_template":"","nb_breaking_from_name":"TheWrap","nb_breaking_subject":"","nb_breaking_preview":"","nb_breaking_list":[],"nb_breaking_header_img":0,"nb_breaking_should_send":false,"nb_breaking_content":"","nb_newsletter_sent_breaking_post_id":[],"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-09-24T17:00:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"85646845-a474-4263-9273-e6225e43372f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-09-24T17:00:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhWRoRaR0QmOSc-YiXkM3Lw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"hide_featured_image":false,"the_wrap_post_enable_full_width_featured_image":false,"the_wrap_post_enable_featured_video":false,"the_wrap_post_featured_video":"","the_wrap_post_disable_read_more":false,"wp_curate_deduplication":false,"wp_curate_unique_pinned_posts":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[4229,8144,515445],"tw_data_partners":[],"columns":[],"byline":[504357],"class_list":["post-8085152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-movies","tag-john_malkovich","tag-santa_barbara_film_festival","tag-wild-horse-nine"],"newsletter_builder_byline":"Steve Pond","is_pro_article":false,"apple_news_notices":[],"eyebrow":{"link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/awards\/","text":"Awards"},"tw_schema_org_review":{"name":"","type":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8085152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085172,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085152\/revisions\/8085172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7982745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085152"},{"taxonomy":"tw_data_partners","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tw_data_partners?post=8085152"},{"taxonomy":"tw_column","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/columns?post=8085152"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8085152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}