Variety To Honor Artisans Including Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Leslie Odom Jr. at Santa Barbara Film Festival

Leslie Odom Jr. and his wife, actress Nicolette Robinson, have welcomed their second child together.

Happy news for this Hamilton star! Leslie Odom Jr. welcomed his second child, Able Phineas, on March 25 with Nicolette Robinson.

In 2020, one of the film industry's last major in-person gatherings before the pandemic struck was the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The annual 10-day event, held two hours north of Los Angeles along the picturesque "American Riviera," regularly attracts a phalanx of top Oscar contenders.

Todd Longwell Early on during the pandemic, it became obvious to Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival executive director Roger Durling that the 36th edition of the festival would be like no other, and not in a good way.

Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor has reacted to the “surreal” Oscar nominations he and Atticus Ross received yesterday (March 15).The pair were nominated for their scores on David Fincher’s Mank, and Pixar movie Soul.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Montecito home was “invaded” over the holiday season.

Amazon’s One Night in Miami picked up three Academy Award nominations Monday morning, with two of those nods going to actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. Earning a best supporting actor nomination for his supporting turn as soul legend Sam Cooke, Odom also shares a best original song nomination with Sam Ashworth for the tune "Speak Now" — which makes Odom the first male performer to be nominated for both acting and songwriting.

This morning, in a rare feat, composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross pulled a pair of Original Score nominations for Soul and Mank.

Also Read: How Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Became 1930s-Style Tunesmiths for 'Mank'“Whether it’s a synthesizer or an orchestra, they’re tools to deliver the emotion,” Ross said. “I can recognize a certain aesthetic across all the work, just because of their identity, in the way that you are you and you have your own experiences in the way that you communicate.

Henry Darrow, a prolific TV actor from the 1950s through the early 2000s who found his breakthrough success as Manolito Montoya, son of a wealthy Mexican ranch owner on NBC’s hit 1967-71 Western The High Chaparral, died yesterday at his Wilmington, North Carolina, home. He was 87.

Leslie Odom Jr. became a two-time Oscar nominee today for his performance in One Night In Miami. For his role as legendary singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, the actor earned a nomination for Best Supporting actor as well as one for Best Original Song as the composer and performer of the film’s ending credits track, Speak Now.

Leslie Odom Jr. may have been on most 2021 Oscars predictions list, but he still wasn't certain it would come true.

Also Read: Leslie Odom Jr: 'One Night in Miami' Among 'Time Capsule' Films That Portray 2020 Race ClimateOdom Jr.

The Santa Barbara Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Aaron Maurer’s documentary Invisible Valley, which profiles the stories of the disparate people that make up the Coachella Valley. It kicks off a festival that will run March 31-April 10 with a hybrid edition that includes online elements and screenings at a pair of pop-up beachside drive-in venues.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is always starry a celebration of up and coming filmmakers and Oscar hopefuls, but this year the programmers have also decided to make it more accessible.

UPDATED with latest: Carey Mulligan will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award next month at the 36th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival, joining the likes of Bill Murray, Amanda Seyfried and Delroy Lindo on the fest’s honorees list this year.