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SBIFF: Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet Chat About Their Oscar-Nom’d Performances

Clarence Moye by Clarence Moye
February 12, 2025
in Festival Circuit, Film, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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Timothée Chalamet

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 11: Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin speak onstage at the Arlington Artist Award ceremony during the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival at The Arlington Theatre on February 11, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

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The stars continue their trek to the gorgeous town of Santa Barbara and its wonderful film festival, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival — now in its 40th year. Oscar nominees Demi Moore (The Substance) and Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown) were recently on hand to support their latest, award-winning work. Moore hosted a free screening of The Substance and conducted a Q&A with festival director Roger Durling to discuss her blockbuster career. The festival also featured two key films within her filmography during the week: Indecent Proposal and Ghost.

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 09: <> on February 09, 2025 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images for Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

Chalamet received the festival’s Arlington Artist of the Year Award present to him by A Complete Unknown director James Mangold. The award presentation followed a conversation moderated by actor Josh Brolin. In looking back across his career, Chalamet remarked that “I hope in a day and age that incentivizes someone else that we will still have great artists.”

On his recent performance as Willy Wonka in Wonka, Chalamet said, “It was a whole new thing to learn you know, or to relearn and have the freeness I felt with my youth…Pop culture has the perception that dark is cool.”

When talking about his Oscar-nominated role as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Chalamet said, “This was a lifetime’s work, and the respect and passion I feel for Bob Dylan and his music was so great that it took me out of myself…Without disrespecting my other performances and stuff that is to come, this was a lifetime’s work.”

Here is the complete Timothée Chalamet Q&A as moderated by Josh Brolin:

 

You can find the full SBIFF schedule at its website.

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Clarence Moye

Clarence Moye is a proud co-founder of The Contending where he writes about film, television, and occasionally Taylor Swift. Yes, you're allowed to make fun of him for that. He does not care. Under his 10-year run at Awards Daily, Clarence covered the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Telluride Film Festival, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the Middleburg Film Festival, and much more. Clarence is a member of the Critics Choice Association.

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