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Sacha Baron Cohen To Receive Outstanding Performer Of The Year Award At SBIFF

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Sacha Baron Cohen told Deadline this week that he chased the role of Abbie Hoffman in The Trial of the Chicago 7 for over a decade before the project came together under Aaron Sorkin’s direction.

That perseverance paid off. On April 7, Baron Cohen will receive the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award at the 36th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

The actor receives the award not just for Netflix’s Chicago 7, for his wildly-successful sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm at Amazon Studios.

SBIFF’s Executive Director Roger Durling noted that in 2020, the actor “twice was able to capture our interest, our imagination as well as the zeitgeist.

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