A man in a black suit walks in a crowd with professional cameras around him.
Leonardo DiCaprio appears at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. (Photo by Aston Smith/Special for the Santa Barbara News-Press)

The A-listers walked the red carpet Monday night at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Leonardio DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro were honored with the Hammond Cinema Vanguard Award Monday night at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

The three star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s academy-award nominated film One Battle After Another along with Teyana Taylor.

The Santa Barbara News-Press’ social media team of Aston Smith and Anika Brodnansky covered their red-carpet arrivals live, as well as the conversation that followed inside the Arlington Theatre.

Check out Smith’s photos below.

A man in a black suit walks in a crowd with professional cameras around him.
Leonardo DiCaprio appears at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. (Photo by Aston Smith/Special for the Santa Barbara News-Press)
Two men in black suits walk in a crowd with professional cameras around him.
Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro appears at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. (Photo by Aston Smith/Special to the Santa Barbara News-Press)
Two men, one in a white jacket and one in a blacket jacked pose in front of a blue background.
Leonardio DiCaprio appears at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival with executive director Roger Durling. (Photo by Aston Smith/Special to the Santa Barbara News-Press)
hundreds of people sit inside a large theater.
A packed house fills the Arlington Theatre for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. (Photo by Aston Smith/Special to the Santa Barbara News-Press)

Find more coverage on the News-Press’ Instagram page.

Joshua Molina is editor of the News-Press and an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of reporting across the South Coast. He is a professor of journalism at Santa Barbara City College and host of local news show SB Talks with Josh Molina.