In Dafoe’s case, unique is putting it mildly. He’s dressed in hipster casual - black jeans, white T-shirt and a scruffy graying beard (a remnant from his recent turn as Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s upcoming biopic, At Eternity’s Gate) - but in a few hours he’ll spruce himself up, slip into a suit and step onto a stage to accept the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Vanguard Award, honoring what the program calls his “unique contributions to film.” Today, for instance, the 62-year-old Oscar nominee - he’s up for best supporting actor for his role in The Florida Project, A24’s $2 million slice of life about kids from low-income families living in cheap motels near Orlando’s Disney World - lounges on a shady terrace at a hotel overlooking downtown Santa Barbara, where he’s about to take another lap around the awards season circuit as it hurtles toward the finish line. Of course, what makes Dafoe different from most people - aside from enjoying laundry - is that in his life there’s really no such thing as a typical day.
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