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.
Oct 18-22, 2023 [1]
Audience Choice Awards:
Oct 19-23, 2022 [2]
Audience Choice Awards:
Oct 14-24, 2021 [3]
Audience Choice Awards:
Oct 15-18, 2020 [4]
Audience Choice Awards:
Audience Choice Awards:
Oct 10-14, 2018 [7] | Jury Awards:
Audience Choice Awards:
Oct 4-8, 2017 [8] |Jury Awards:
Audience Choice Awards:
Sept 28-Oct 2, 2016 [9] |Jury Awards:
Audience Choice Awards:
Sep 30-Oct 4, 2015 [10] |Jury Awards:
Audience Choice:
Sep 24-28, 2014 [11] [12] | Jury Awards:
Audience Choice:
Oct 2-6, 2013 [13] | Jury Awards:
Audience Choice:
Audience Choice:
Audience Choice:
Audience Choice:
Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2006 [22] [23]
Audience Choice:
Sept 21-25, 2005 [24]
Audience Choice:
Sept 29 - Oct 4, 2004 [25]
Oct 20, 2022 [27] [28] [29] | The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla
Confirmed Festival Guests: Jung Ryeo-won, [30] District Attorney Summer Stephan [31]
Oct 14-24, 2021
No awards banquet was held in 2021 due to COVID-19 protocols about social distancing.
No awards banquet was held in 2020 due to COVID-19 protocols about social distancing.
Oct 18, 2019 [32] [33] [34] | Pendry Hotel San Diego
Host: Scott Mantz
Confirmed Festival Guests: Stephen Gyllenhaal, [37] Cindy Marten. [38]
Oct 11, 2018 [39] [40] [41] | Pendry Hotel San Diego
Host: Scott Mantz
Confirmed Festival Guests: Hal Linden, [42] Nat Wolff, [43] Jassa Ahluwalia [44]
Oct 5, 2017 [45] | Pendry Hotel San Diego
Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz
Confirmed Festival Guests: Rian Johnson, [46] Nick Eversman (presenter)
Sept 29th, 2016 [47] [48] | Museum of Contemporary Art
Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz
Confirmed Festival Guests: Warren Beatty, [49] Kevin Pollak, [50] Josie Totah (as JJ Totah), [51] Sean Patrick Flanery, [52] Kweku Mandela [53]
Oct 1, 2015 [54] - Museum of Contemporary Art
Host: Jeffrey Lyons
Confirmed Festival Guest: Mika Haka, [55] Leslee Udwin, Roger Ross Williams, Dawn Porter [56]
Sept 25, 2014 | Museum of Contemporary Art [57] [58] [59]
Confirmed Festival Guests: [61] Tom Berenger, Josh Duhamel, Dennis Haysbert, Stelio Savante
Oct 3, 2013 | Museum of Contemporary Art [62] [63]
Confirmed Festival Guests: Michael B. Jordan, [64] Troy Duffy [65]
Sept 27, 2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art [66]
Confirmed Guests: Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, [69] Diane Ladd, [70] Anne Heche, Pennie Lane, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Martin McDonagh, [71] Mark Christopher Lawrence [72]
Sep 28-Oct 2 [73]
Confirmed Guests: Will Reiser, Tom Sizemore, Lee Hirsch
Sept 20, 2010 [74]
Confirmed Guests: Jenna Fischer, Kim Coates, Leland Orser, Davis Guggenheim, Jason Ritter and Elliott Gould.
Confirmed Guests: [75] William Shatner, Richard Dreyfuss, James Van Der Beek, James Cromwell
Confirmed Guests: Melissa Joan Hart, Bryan Greenberg, Ben Younger.
Achievement in Acting Award: [78] James Woods
Confirmed Festival Guests: [79] Kevin Smith, Jeff Anderson, Rod Lurie, Tatum O’Neal, Cliff Robertson, Joey Lauren Adams and Scott Baio
for Best Native American Film
For best first time director.
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