Brendan Fraser to receive American Riviera Award at Santa Barbara Film International Festival
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"The Whale" star Brendan Fraser is set to receive the American Riviera Award at the 38th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Feb. 14, 2023.
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Ahead of receiving the award, Fraser is set to participate in an in-person retrospective conversation about his career.
"I’m so elated that we will be celebrating Brendan Fraser at SBIFF. Here’s a performer who has brought us so much joy through the years, given us so many incredible cinematic memories, and now delivered the best performance of his career," the festival's executive director Roger Durling said in a statement.
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