{"id":41482,"date":"2018-02-21T01:20:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=41482"},"modified":"2018-02-21T06:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:49:28","slug":"virtuosos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/?p=41482","title":{"rendered":"Virtuosos: SBIFF 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Zaya Huntsinger. Viewed at SBIFF 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Unknown-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42298\" src=\"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/ ><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Virtuosos Award took place at the SBIFF on Saturday, February 3, 2018. It was presented to people who have given breakthrough performances in film over the past year. These people included: \u00a0Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out),Hong Chau (Downsizing), John Boyega (Detroit), Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name). The award was presented and moderated by Dave Karger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were recognized impressive roles over the past year. Daniel Kaluuya was praised for his role as Chris Washington in the political thriller \u201cGet Out.\u201d Gal Gadot for her impressive acting as the lead in \u201cWonder Woman.\u201d Hong Chau for her inspiring performance in the social comedy \u201cDownsizing,\u201d in which she plays the character Ngoc Lan Tran. John Boyega for his talented performance as Melvin Dismukes in the film \u201cDetroit.\u201d Kumail Nanjiani was awarded for his acting in \u201cThe Big Sick.\u201d Previously known for her singer\/songwriting, Mary J. Blige was given an award for her role as Florence Jackson in \u201cMudbound.\u201d Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet was celebrated for his performance as Elio in Call Me By Your Name. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Zaya Huntsinger. Viewed at SBIFF 2018. The Virtuosos Award took place at the SBIFF on Saturday, February 3, 2018. It was presented to people who have given breakthrough performances in film over the past year. These people included: \u00a0Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out),Hong Chau (Downsizing), John Boyega (Detroit), Mary J. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,322,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2018","category-tributes-and-qas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/233819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}