List of San Diego International Film Festival award winners

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The San Diego International Film Festival is an independent film festival held annually in San Diego. The festival's top honorary award is the Gregory Peck Award for Cinematic Excellence that has been presented at the festival by the family of Gregory Peck since 2014. The festival also presents the Chris Brinker Award to first time directors. Those and other honorary and competitive awards presented by and at the festival are here organized by year and by award.

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Film Competition Award Winners By Year

SDiFF2024

Oct 16-20, 2024 [1]

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2023

Oct 18-22, 2023 [2]

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2022

Oct 19-23, 2022 [3]

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2021

Oct 14-24, 2021 [4]

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2020

Oct 15-18, 2020 [5]

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2019

Joey Travolta directed Carol of the Belles, Winner of the 2019 Audience Award for Best Feature Film Award Joey Travolta 2018.jpg
Joey Travolta directed Carol of the Belles, Winner of the 2019 Audience Award for Best Feature Film Award

Oct 15-20, 2019 [6] [7]

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2018

Garrard Conley & Joel Edgerton, writer and director of Boy Erased Garrard Conley & Joel Edgerton.jpg
Garrard Conley & Joel Edgerton, writer and director of Boy Erased

Oct 10-14, 2018 [8] | Jury Awards:

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2017

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Audience Choice Award Winner for Best Studio Film

Oct 4-8, 2017 [9] |Jury Awards:

Audience Choice Awards:

SDiFF2016

Kevin Pollak accepted the Best Comedy Award in 2016 for The Late Bloomer which he directed. KevinPollakMar08.jpg
Kevin Pollak accepted the Best Comedy Award in 2016 for The Late Bloomer which he directed.

Sept 28-Oct 2, 2016 [10] |Jury Awards:

Audience Choice Awards:

SDFF2015

Sep 30-Oct 4, 2015 [11] |Jury Awards:

Audience Choice:

SDFF2014

Sep 24-28, 2014 [12] [13] | Jury Awards:

Audience Choice:

SDFF2013

Oct 2-6, 2013 [14] | Jury Awards:

SDFF2011

[17]

Audience Choice:

SDFF2010

Audience Choice:

Mira Sorvino won the Best Actress Award in 2009 MiraSorvino face.jpg
Mira Sorvino won the Best Actress Award in 2009

SDFF2009

[18]

Audience Choice:

SDFF2008

[19]

Audience Choice:

SDFF2007

Paul Schrader won Best Screenplay in 2007 Paul Schrader (cropped).jpg
Paul Schrader won Best Screenplay in 2007

Sept 27-30, 2007 [20] [21]

SDFF2006

Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2006 [22] [23]

Audience Choice:

SDFF2005

Sept 21-25, 2005 [24]

Audience Choice:

SDFF2004

Sept 29 - Oct 4, 2004 [25]

Night of the Stars Honorees

SDiFF2025

Mark Hamill will be honored with the Gregory Peck Award in 2025 Mark Hamill (48419236062) Cropped.jpg
Mark Hamill will be honored with the Gregory Peck Award in 2025

October 16, 2025 [27]

SDiFF2024

October 17, 2024 [28]

SDiFF2023

No awards banquet was held in 2021 due to the 2023 SAG/AFTRA strike.

SDiFF2022

Andy Garcia received the Gregory Peck Award on October 20, 2022 Andy Garcia 2013 (cropped).jpg
Andy Garcia received the Gregory Peck Award on October 20, 2022

Oct 20, 2022 [29] [30] [31] | The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla

Confirmed Festival Guests: Jung Ryeo-won, [32] District Attorney Summer Stephan [33]

SDiFF2021

Oct 14-24, 2021

No awards banquet was held in 2021 due to COVID-19 protocols about social distancing.

SDiFF2020

No awards banquet was held in 2020 due to COVID-19 protocols about social distancing.

SDiFF2019

Oct 18, 2019 [34] [35] [36] | Pendry Hotel San Diego

Host: Scott Mantz

Confirmed Festival Guests: Stephen Gyllenhaal, [39] Cindy Marten. [40]

John Cho won the Spotlight Award in 2018 John Cho in 2018.jpg
John Cho won the Spotlight Award in 2018

SDiFF2018

Oct 11, 2018 [41] [42] [43] | Pendry Hotel San Diego

Host: Scott Mantz

Confirmed Festival Guests: Hal Linden, [44] Nat Wolff, [45] Jassa Ahluwalia [46]

SDiFF2017

Kumail Nanjiani won the Auteur Award in 2017 Kumail Nanjiani 2019.jpg
Kumail Nanjiani won the Auteur Award in 2017

Oct 5, 2017 [47] | Pendry Hotel San Diego

Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz

Confirmed Festival Guests: Rian Johnson, [48] Nick Eversman (presenter)

SDiFF2016

Sept 29th, 2016 [49] [50] | Museum of Contemporary Art

Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz

Confirmed Festival Guests: Warren Beatty, [51] Kevin Pollak, [52] Josie Totah (as JJ Totah), [53] Sean Patrick Flanery, [54] Kweku Mandela [55]

Geena Davis won the Humanitarian Award in 2015 Geena Davis 2013 (cropped).jpg
Geena Davis won the Humanitarian Award in 2015

SDFF2015

Oct 1, 2015 [56] - Museum of Contemporary Art

Host: Jeffrey Lyons

Confirmed Festival Guest: Mika Haka, [57] Leslee Udwin, Roger Ross Williams, Dawn Porter [58]

American Indian Advisory Board member Saginaw Grant received the American Legacy Award in 2014 Saginaw Grant 2015.jpg
American Indian Advisory Board member Saginaw Grant received the American Legacy Award in 2014

SDFF2014

Sept 25, 2014 | Museum of Contemporary Art [59] [60] [61]

Confirmed Festival Guests: [63] Tom Berenger, Josh Duhamel, Dennis Haysbert, Stelio Savante

SDFF2013

Oct 3, 2013 | Museum of Contemporary Art [64] [65]

Confirmed Festival Guests: Michael B. Jordan, [66] Troy Duffy [67]

Gus Van Sant won the Visionary Filmmaker Award and received a film retrospective in 2012 Gus Van Sant 01.jpg
Gus Van Sant won the Visionary Filmmaker Award and received a film retrospective in 2012

SDFF2012

Sept 27, 2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art [68]

Confirmed Guests: Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, [71] Diane Ladd, [72] Anne Heche, Pennie Lane, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Martin McDonagh, [73] Mark Christopher Lawrence [74]

SDFF2011

Sep 28-Oct 2 [75]

Confirmed Guests: Will Reiser, Tom Sizemore, Lee Hirsch

SDFF2010

Sept 20, 2010 [76]

Confirmed Guests: Jenna Fischer, Kim Coates, Leland Orser, Davis Guggenheim, Jason Ritter and Elliott Gould.

SDFF2009

Confirmed Guests: [77] William Shatner, Richard Dreyfuss, James Van Der Beek, James Cromwell

SDFF2005

Joan Collins won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 Joan Collins in Stephane Rolland (1) cropped.jpg
Joan Collins won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005

Sept 24, 2005 [78] [79]

Confirmed Guests: Melissa Joan Hart, Bryan Greenberg, Ben Younger.

SDFF2004

SDFF2002

Achievement in Acting Award: [80] James Woods

Confirmed Festival Guests: [81] Kevin Smith, Jeff Anderson, Rod Lurie, Tatum O’Neal, Cliff Robertson, Joey Lauren Adams and Scott Baio

By award

Stephen Gyllenhaal directed the 2016 winner So B. It Stephen Gyllenhaal.jpg
Stephen Gyllenhaal directed the 2016 winner So B. It

Golden Eagles

Best Narrative Feature

Best Documentary

Best Animation

  • 2022: Tehura
  • 2021: Freebird
  • 2020: To: Gerard (dir. Taylor Meacham)
  • 2019: Riptide
  • 2018: The Driver is Red (dir. Randall Christopher)
  • 2017: Green Light (dir. Seong-Min Kim)
  • 2015: SOAR (dir. Alyce Tzue)
  • 2014: The Dam Keeper (dir. Robert Kondo)

Kumeyaay Eagle Award

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San Diego is in Kumeyaay Territory

for Best Native American Film

Audience Awards

Best Documentary

  • 2022: Holy Frit (dir. Justin Monroe)
  • 2021: The Disruptors (dir. Stephanie Soechtig)
  • 2020: The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
  • 2019: Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War (dir. Kerry David)
  • 2018: Soufra (dir. Thomas A. Morgan)
  • 2017: Resistance is Life (dir. Apo W. Bazidi)
  • 2016: Seed: The Untold Story (dir. Taggart Siegel)
  • 2015: Moments of Clarity (dir. Stev Elam)
  • 2014: Waiting for Mamu
  • 2011: The Highest Pass (dir. Jon Fitzgerald)
  • 2010: Waiting for Superman (dir. Davis Guggenheim)
  • 2009: Jesse's Story (dir. Mark S. Jacobs)
  • 2008: Speed & Angels (dir. Peyton Wilson)
  • 2006: The Creek Runs Red (dirs. B. Beesley, J. Brannum)
  • 2005: "Little Man," (dir. Nicole Conn )
Jason Priestley directed the winner of the 2014 Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Jason Priestley 2012.jpg
Jason Priestley directed the winner of the 2014 Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature

Best Narrative Feature

Best Narrative Short

  • 2022: Moon
  • 2021: Munkie (dir. Steven Chow)
  • 2020: Feeling Through (dir. Doug Roland)
  • 2019: Men of Vision
  • 2018: Your Call Is Important To Us
  • 2017: The Dog With the Woman (dir. P., S. Ledger-Lomas)
  • 2016: Mine (dir. Simon Berry)
  • 2015:The Gunfighter (dir. Eric Kissack)
  • 2014: Sure Thing
Malala Yousafzai starred in the Audience Choice for Best Documentary in 2015 Shinzo Abe and Malala Yousafzai (1) Cropped.jpg
Malala Yousafzai starred in the Audience Choice for Best Documentary in 2015

Best Studio/Gala Film

Gregory Peck Award

Chris Brinker Award

For best first time director.

Cinema Vanguard Award

Humanitarian Award

Fairbanks Award

Virtuoso Award

Kenny Loggins won the Music Icon Award in 2018 Kenny Loggins (5113182254).jpg
Kenny Loggins won the Music Icon Award in 2018

Auteur Award

Music Icon Award

Spotlight Award

Rising Star Award

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