Santa Barbara, Oct. 16 -- Comedy icon and versatile actor Adam Sandler is poised to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award at the 41st Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), organisers announced Wednesday.
The honour will be conferred on February 5, 2026, at the historic Arlington Theatre, following a curated retrospective of Sandler's career featuring select film clips, in a conversation moderated by the award's eponym, eminent film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
"Adam Sandler won me over when he sang 'The Hanukkah Song' on SNL," Maltin said in a statement, adding "then amassed a huge following in tailor-made movies like The Waterboy and The Wedding Singer. I love that he's left his comfo...