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Bradley Cooper Lights Up Santa Barbara Film Festival With A Little Help From Brad Pitt; Plus ‘Oscars For Geeks’ Honor Alexander Payne, Jeffrey Wright – Notes On The Season
Bradley Cooper Accepted the Outstanding Performer of the year award at Santa Barbara Film Festival from Brad Pitt
It was a very big night for 12-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday night where the Maestro star received the Outstanding Performer Of The Year award from presenter Brad Pitt, but for two hours before that sat down with me for an in-depth look at his career with a wide variety of clips we chose to highlight his many talents, plus a killer sizzle reel to kick things off before I brought him up on stage to a massive standing ovation from the completely sold out crowd of 2000 at the Arlington Theatre. He revealed his original Star Is Born co-star was going to be Beyonce, then for a brief time he was thinking Adele, before fate intervened and he saw Lady Gaga performing “La Vie En Rose” and knew it had to be her. I sat with Payne, Giamatti, screenwriter David Hemingson, Film Editor Kevin Tent, and Producer Mark Johnson at The Holdovers table Focus Features had put together for the show which has come to be known as “Oscars For Geeks”.
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