Actress Oprah Winfrey, which is up for the best supporting actress award at this year's Oscars for "The Butler," will receive the Montecito Award in the Santa Barbara Festival.
Although the interpreter is on everyone's lips for her role in "The Butler", which will surely give her her second Oscar nomination, she receives this award for her career in the world of cinema and not for her role in Lee Daniels film.
It seems that the Santa Barbara Festival opts for «The Butler»In this Oscar race, as it will not only award Winfrey this year, but it will also pay tribute to the protagonist of the film Forest Whitaker, who could choose the role of Cecil Gaines, which would be his second statuette.
Oprah Winfrey debuted on the big screen with Steven Spielberg «Purple color«, The film with which he obtained his first and only, to date, nomination for the Academy Awards.
In addition to being an actress, she has also participated in the world of celluloid as a producer in films such as «Precious»Or the film that this year triumphed at the Sundance Film Festival and which could appear at the Oscars«Fruitvale station«.
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