'The Artist' Stars to get the Santa Barbara Film Festival's Cinema Vanguard Award

"The Artist"stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo will get the Cinema Vanguard Award in the 27th Santa Barbara Worldwide Film Festival.The award recognizes stars who've forge their very own individual pathways, "taking artistic risks and creating a significant and different contribution to film.""At a time of sight and seem spectacle, there's potential risk inside a quiet film," SBIFF executive director Roger Durling stated. "Jean and Berenice's acting is definitely an amazing pas des deux both physically and psychologically -- remembering classic Hollywood combinations like Hepburn and Tracy not to mention, indelibly, Ginger root and Fred."The award will be provided in the Arlington Theatre on February. 4. The festival itself runs from Jan. 26-February. 5. The Hollywood Reporter