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Sandler will collect his honor on Feb. 5, 2026, at Santa Barbara\u2019s historic Arlington Theater, at the conclusion of a career-retrospective conversation, with clips, moderated by the award\u2019s namesake, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAdam Sandler won me over when he sang \u2018The Hanukkah Song\u2019 on SNL<\/a>,\u201d Maltin said in a statement, \u201cthen amassed a huge following in tailor-made movies like The Waterboy<\/a> and The Wedding Singer<\/a>. I love that he\u2019s left his comfort zone and delivered potent performances in Uncut Gems<\/a> and Jay Kelly. I can\u2019t wait to share the stage with him in Santa Barbara.\u201d<\/p>\n Sandler,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam Sandler, the comedy legend who is earning career-best reviews and best supporting actor Oscar buzz for his dramatic turn opposite George Clooney in Noah Baumbach\u2019s Jay Kelly, has been tapped to receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival\u2019s Maltin Modern Master Award, Sbiff announced on Wednesday. Sandler will collect his honor on Feb. 5, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2093368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Santa-Barbara-Film-Fest-\u2018Jay-Kelly-Star-Adam-Sandler-Tapped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093370,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093368\/revisions\/2093370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}