The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC), formerly known as San Francisco Film Critics Circle, was founded in 2002 as an organization of film journalists and critics from San Francisco, California based publications.
Included in its membership are journalists from San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , Oakland Tribune , Contra Costa Times , San Francisco Bay Guardian , SF Weekly , East Bay Express , San Jose Metro , Palo Alto Weekly , NorthBay biz, The San Francisco Examiner , KRON-TV , Variety , Bleeding Cool , CultureVulture.net, Splicedwire.com, and CombustibleCelluloid.com.[ citation needed ]
In December of each year, the SFFCC meets to vote on the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards for the films released in the same calendar year.[ citation needed ]
Categories of awards include:
The Marlon Riggs award is a category named after Black gay filmmaker, educator, poet, and activist Marlon Riggs and is awarded to "Bay Area filmmaker(s) or individual(s) who represents courage and innovation in the world of cinema." [1] Established in, the first winner was filmmaker Sam Green for his Academy Award nominated film, The Weather Underground . The winner are: