Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009 LRTV Update: DJ ? Presents Mickey Rourke Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009 Aliens Choice Award & Changes Oscar Picks VIDEO
http://liverootstv.com/DJ ? honors Mickey Rourke on the red carpet during opening night coverage of Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009 live Jan. 22 on Live Roots TV Channel 17 Santa Barbara.Sponsored by BGPMUSIC.com (http://bgpmusic.com), independent music for film.
Live on Jan. 22, the opening night of the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival, DJ ?stands at the red carpet, poised to present Mickey Rourke with the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009 Aliens Choice Awards.This year’s competition for the award was fierce, as DJ ? deliberated the choice, weighing the year’s great performances from Hollywood’s talent pool.The final selections boiled down to two gifted performers: Penelope Cruz for dual performances in “Elegy” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Mickey Rourke for his gut-turning performance in “The Wrestler”.
After watching the Wrestler for the 14th time in a row, DJ ? decided that it was Mickey Rourke who should receive the annual Santa Barbara Film Festival Aliens Choice Award.Rourke’s performance was riveting, and the soundtrack was insane.The movie opened with “Metal Health” by Quiet Riot, then ripped through metal classics including Guns N Roses, Cinderella, and Ratt. Actually Mickey and sexy co-star Melissa Tomei as his milf-y stripper love interest, sang Ratt’s “Round and Round” with feeling!
DJ ?’s award ceremony took place at the Arlington theatre, home to many of the 11-day festivals events, which runs from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1. The 24th Annual festival includes feature film showings, celebrity events with appearances by Hollywood A-listers. networking events and educational panels, as well as an assortment of secondary events for the local community, sort of like Caddy day in Caddyshack. During the festival, locals are treated like sheep, guided through fenced areas that are usually open, prevented from going into sections now reserved for A-listers and socialites only, but in the meantime providing the festival with polite warm bodies to fill the seats. Thousands of film fans and media professionals from around the world have descended upon Santa Barbara, as the red carpet was laid out at the Arlington Theatre, Lobero Theatre and as well as other locations throughout town.
Along with her highly coveted Aliens Choice honorary selection award by DJ ?, Penelope Cruz is honored as this years Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009 Outstanding Performer of the Year.Also, Mickey Rourke will be receiving the Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009 American Rivera Award.
DJ ?s Aliens Choice award ceremony and the first day of the Santa Barbara Film Festival coincided with the Oscar nominations on Jan. 22, as announcements for the 81st Annual Academy Awards came out with as much anticipation as DJ ?’s 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival Aliens Choice winner.
DJ ? was not alone in his high opinion of Rourke. According to Todd McCarthy from Variety, The Wrester provides “A Galvanizing, humorous, deeply moving portrait that instantly takes its place among the great, iconic screen performances.”Roger Ebert from th Chicago Sun-Times says Mickey Rourke delivers “The performance of a lifetime.Mickey Rourke may win the oscar.” Peter Travers from Rolling Stones reviewed the Boss’s titled song with praise, “a superb title song by Bruce Springsteen”
DJ ? has officially changed his Oscar Picks, deciding that Mickey Rourke should receive every available award except best actress, which should go to Melissa Tormei, also for best milf in a roll/hottest newcomer to the stripper pole, and best supporting actress which should go to Evan Rachel Wood, who gives a heart-wrenching performance as the estranged daughter of Mickey Rourke’s character Ram.
Tickets for the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival can be purchased at the Lobero Box Office, or visit http://www.lobero.com/calendar/sbiff2009/for more information on ticket purchases including: Mini-paks, Opening Night Gala, Kate Winslet Montecito Award, Penelope Cruz Outstanding Performer of the Year, Writers Panel, Directors Panel, Virtuosos Award, Clint Eastwood Modern Master Award, Mickey Rourke The American Rivera Award, and Womens panel. Lobero Theatre box office is located at 33 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa barbara CA 93101. First weekend and second weekend platinum passes are also available.
