List of San Diego International Film Festival award winners
The following is a list of San Diego International Film Festival award winners by year, celebrity and by award.
Film Competition Award Winners By Year
SDiFF2020
Oct 15-18, 2020[1]
- Best Narrative Feature: Drunk Bus (dir. John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke)
- Best Documentary: MLK/FBI (dir. Sam Pollard)
- Best International Feature: 150 Million Magical Sparrows (dirs. Brahmanand S. Singh, Tanvi Jain)
- Best Thriller Feature: Through the Glass Darkly (dir. Lauren Fash)
- Best Drama Feature: Farewell Amor (dir. Ekwa Msangi)
- Best Comedy Feature: Eat Wheaties! (dir. Scott Abramovitch)
- Best Ensemble Cast: Before/During/After (dir. Stephen Kunken, Jack Lewars)
- Best Short Documentary: Panthoot (dir. Richard Reens)
- Best Short Narrative: Last Queen on Earth (dir. Michael Shumway)
- Best International Short Film: Chen Chen (dir. Kargo Chen)
- Best Animation: To: Gerard (dir. Taylor Meacham)
- Kumeyaay Award: Invasion: The Unist'ot'en's Fight for Sovereignty (dirs. Michael Toledano, Sam Vinal)
- Best Local Film: Anna (dir. Rich Underwood)
- Chris Brinker Award: The MisEducation of Bindu (dir. Prarthana Mohan)
- Artistic Director's Award: You Asked for the Facts: Bobby Kennedy at the Univ of Mississippi
Audience Choice Awards:
SDiFF2019
- Best Narrative Feature : The Steed (dir. Erdenebileg Ganbold)
- Best Documentary: Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War (dir. Kerry David)
- Best Short Film: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller (dir. Nora Kirkpatrick)
- Best International Short Film: Portraitist (dir. Cyrus Neshvad)
- Best Animation: Riptide
- Best Global Cinema: Philophobia (dir. Guy Davies)
- Kumeyaay Award: Angelique's Isle (dir. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michelle Derosier)
- Best Ensemble Cast: Inside Game (dir. Randall Batinkoff)
- Best Original Screenplay: Love in Kilnerry (dir. Daniel Keith)
- Best World Premiere: 100 Days to Live (dir. Ravin Gandhi)
- Best Student Film: Sonora
- Best Local Film: Flourish (dir. Christopher Allan Francis, Nicole Franco)
- Best Comedy Film: Babysplitters (dir. Sam Friedlander)
- Best Thriller: Safe Inside (dir. Renata Gabryjelska)
- Litecoin Filmmaker Award: Philophobia
- Artistic Director's Award: Safe Spaces (dir. Daniel Schechter)
Audience Choice Awards:
- Studio Film: Marriage Story (dir. Noah Baumbach)
- Feature Film: Carol of the Bells (dir. Joey Travolta)
- Documentary: Breaking Their Silence, Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War (dir. Kerry David)
- Short Film: Men of Vision (dir. Frank Todaro)
SDiFF2018
Oct 10-14, 2018[4] | Jury Awards:
- Best Animation: The Driver is Red (dir. Randall Christopher)
- Best Student Film: Learning to Swim
- Best Global Cinema: My Name is "Batlir", Not Butler (dir. Stare Yildirim)
- Kumeyaay Award: Indian Horse
- Most Inspirational Film: The Push (dir. Grant Korgan, Brian Niles)
- Best World Premiere: Electric Love (dir. Aaron Fradkin)
- Best Local Film: Daisy Belle (dir. William Wall)
- Best Local Breakout: Romance is Dead (dir. Todd Jackson)
- Best Short Film: Akeda (dir. Dan Bronfield)
- Best Short Comedy Film: Hero (dir. Drew and Nate Garcia)
- Best Documentary: Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War
- Best Thriller: Rust Creek
- Best Breakout Feature: I May Regret (dir. Graham Streeter)
- Best Feature Film: Tiger
- Artistic Directors' Award: Soufra (dir. Thomas A. Morgan)
Audience Choice Awards:
- Best Documentary: Soufra
- Best Feature: I May Regret
- Best Short: Your Call Is Important To Us
- Best Studio: Boy Erased
SDiFF2017
Oct 4-8, 2017[5] | Jury Awards:
- Best Narrative Feature: The Bachelors (dir. Kurt Voelker)
- Best Documentary: The Last Animals
- Best Short Film: The Foster Portfolio
- Best Foreign Short: Ostoja Will Move Your Piano
- Best Animated Short: Green Light (dir. Seong-Min Kim)
- Best Global Cinema: The Divine Order
- Kumeyayy Eagle Award: Waabooz (dir. Molly Katagiri)
- Best Military Film: Apache Warrior (dir. David Salzberg, Christian Tureaud)
- Best Ensemble Film: Butterfly Caught (dir. Manny Rodriguez Jr.)
- Best World Premiere: Dismissed (dir. Benjamin Arfmann)
- Best Comedy Feature: The Lonely Italian (dir. Lee Farber)
- Best Breakthrough Feature: Selling Isobel
- Chairman's Award: Dog Years (dir. Adam Rifkin)
Audience Choice Awards:
- Best Documentary: Resistance is Life (dir. Apo W. Bazidi)
- Best Feature: Life Hack
- Best Short: The Dog With the Woman (dir. Phoebe Arnstein, Stephen Ledger-Lomas)
- Best Studio: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SDiFF2016
Sept 28-Oct 2, 2016 | Jury Awards:
- Best Narrative Short: Bon Voyage (dir. Marc Raymond Wilkin)
- Best Comedy: The Late Bloomer (dir. Kevin Pollak)
- Best Military Film: Railway Spine (dir. Samuel Gonzalez, Jr.)
- Kumeyayy Eagle Award: Te Ata (dir. Nathan Frankowski)
- Best Documentary: Political Animals
- Best International Film: Julieta (dir. Pedro Almodovar)
- Breakthrough Feature: Po
- Chairman's Award: Citizen Soldier (dir. David Salzberg, Christian Tureaud)
- Best Narrative Feature: So B. It
- Breakthrough Documentary: In Utero
Audience Choice Awards:
- Best Documentary: Seed: The Untold Story
- Best International Film: The Cliff (Acantilado)
- Best Narrative Feature: Dead Draw (dir. Brian Klemesrud)
- Best Narrative Short: Mine (dir. Simon Berry)
SDFF2015
Sep 30-Oct 4, 2015[6] | Jury Awards:
- Best Narrative Feature – Diablo
- Best Documentary – India's Daughter
- Best International Film – Victoria
- Best Narrative Short – SubRosa (dir. Thora Hilmarsdottir)
- Best Animated Film – SOAR (dir. Alyce Tzue)
- Best Military Film – No Greater Love (dir. Justin Roberts)
- Kumeyaay Award – For Blood (dir. Chadwick Pelletier, John T. Connor)
- Chairman's Award – Kidnap Capital
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature – Moments of Clarity
- Best Documentary – Return to Dak To
- Best Short – The Gunfighter (dir. Eric Kissack)
- Best Gala – He Named Me Malala
SDFF2014
Sep 24-28, 2014[7][8] | Jury Awards:
- Best Narrative Feature: Where the Road Runs Out (dir. Rudolf Buitendach)
- Best Documentary: Waiting for Mamu
- Best International: Schimbarev (dir. Álex Sampayo)
- Best Narrative Short: The Bravest, The Boldest (dir. Moon Molson)
- Best Animated Film: The Dam Keeper
- Kumeyaay Award: Sycuan: Our People. Our Culture. Our History.
- U-T San Diego Award: Where the Road Runs Out
- Chairman's Award: The Hornet's Nest
Audience Choice:
- Best Gala Film: The Imitation Game
- Best Feature: Cas & Dylan
- Best Documentary: Waiting for Mamu
- Best Short: Sure Thing
- Best International: Noble
SDFF2013
Oct 2-6, 2013[9] | Jury Awards:
- Best Narrative Feature: Autumn Blood[10]
- Best Latin Feature: Dirty Hearts[11]
SDFF2011
- Best Narrative Feature - East Fifth Bliss (dir. Michael Knowles)
- Best Documentary - Semper Fi: Always Faithful (dir. Tony Hardmon & Rachel Libert)
- Best Short Film - It Takes Balls (dir. Benoit Lach)
- Best San Diego Film - Repeat After Me (dir. Bryan Bangerter)
- Best Screenplay - James Westby (Rid of Me)
- Best Actor - John Turturro, (Somewhere Tonight)
- Best Actress - Rachel Boston (The Pill)
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature - Like Crazy (dir. Drake Doremus)
- Best Documentary - The Highest Pass, dir. Jon Fitzgerald
SDFF2010
- Best Narrative Feature - A Little Help
- Best Documentary - Waiting for Superman
- Best Short Film - Touch
- Best San Diego Film - This is Charlotte King, dir. Jeffrey Durkin
- Best Actor - Drew Fuller (The Kane Files: Life in Trial)
- Best Actress - Emily VanCamp (Norman)
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature - Nowhere Boy
- Best Documentary - Waiting for Superman
SDFF2009
- Best Narrative Feature - Formosa Betrayed (dir. Adam Kane)
- Best Documentary - American Harmony
- Best Short Film - True Beauty This Night
- Best Music Video - Reilly's "Sunlight" (Dir. David Altrogge)
- Best San Diego Film - Wyland Earth Day (Dir. Chris Marrow)
- Best Screenplay - Shem Bitterman (The Job)
- Best Actor - James Van Der Beek (Formosa Betrayed)
- Best Actress - Mira Sorvino (Like Dandelion Dust)
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature - Reach for Me (dir. LeVar Burton)
- Best Documentary - Jesse's Story (dir. Mark S. Jacobs)
SDFF2008
- Best Feature - Summerhood (dir. Jacob Medjuck)
- Best Actress - Sasha Alexander - The Last Lullaby
- Best Actor - Michael Tassoni - The Appearance of a Man (dir. Daniel Pace)
- Heineken Red Star Award - The Appearance of a Man
- Physical Graffiti Best Action Sports Story - Against the Grain
- Best Short - In the Name of the Son
- Best Documentary - Uncounted (dir. David Earnhardt)
- Best Music Video - Greg Laswell - How the Day Sounds
- Best San Diego Short - Residue
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature - The Last Lullaby
- Best Documentary - Speed & Angels (dir. Peyton Wilson)
SDFF2007
- Best Feature Film: Intervention (dir. Mary McGuckian)
- Best Documentary - Kurt Cobain: About A Son
- Best Short - Rory Kindersley, “Slingers”
- Best Director - Alfredo De Villa, Adrift in Manhattan
- Best Screenplay - The Walker, written by Paul Schrader
- Best Cinematography - The Northern Kingdom, Mark Schwartzbard
- Best Actor - Brian Petersen, Coyote
- Best Actress - Dominique Swain, The Pacific & Eddy | Best Actress - Jennifer Tilly (Intervention)[17]
- Best Female Filmmaker - Annie Sunderberg, The Devil Came on Horseback
- Best San Diego Filmmaker - Greg Durbin, “Passing Through”
- Best Music Video - "Paramount" by Deadarm, Cleopatra, Kb. Directed by Carlos Florez
- Heineken Red Star Award - Killing Zelda Sparks
SDFF2006
Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2006[18][19]
- Best Feature Film - Danika
- Best Director - Jordan Albertsen, The Standard
- Best Screenplay - Tim Boughn, Neo Ned
- Best Documentary --Chasing the Horizon
- Best Short - "Olyver Brody"
- Best Female Filmmaker - Heather MacAllister, The Narrow Gate
- Best Actor - Ryan Donowho, The Favor
- Best Actress - Regina Hall, Danika
- San Diego Filmmaker - "Nothing To Do With Amy"
- Best Music Video - "Just Go", Misdirection
- Best Music Video Director—Fernando Apodaca, "Life Wasted", Pearl Jam
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature - Neo Ned
- Best Documentary - The Creek Runs Red
SDFF2005
Sept 21-25, 2005[20]
- Best Feature Film - "Innocent Voices," (dir. Luis Mandoki)
- Best Documentary - "Earthlings," (dir.Shaun Monson)
- Best Short Film - "Apartment 206," (dir. Gregory Zymet)
- Best Screenplay - "When Do We Eat," (dir. Nina Davidovich & Salvador Litvak)
- Best Actor - Carlos Padilla Lenero, "Innocent Voices"
- Best Actress - Felicity Huffman, "Transamerica"
- Best Director - Christopher Jaymes, "In Memory of My Father"
- San Diego Feature Film - "Everyone Their Grain of Sand", (dir. Elizabeth Bird)
- San Diego Filmmaker - Canaan Brumley, "Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click."
- Crystal Vision - Gable-Cook-Schmid Public Relations
Audience Choice:
- Best Feature - "The Matador," (dir. Richard Shepard)
- Best Documentary - "Little Man," (dir. Nicole Conn )
SDFF2004
Sept 29 - Oct 4, 2004[21]
- Best Feature - Around the Bend, dir. Jordan Roberts
- Best Documentary - Sonny Boy, Soleil Moon Frye
- Best Short - American Made, dir. Sharat Raju
- Best Director - Black Cloud, Rick Shroeder
- Best Screenplay - Celeste Davis (Purgatory House)
- SD Screenwriting Contest Winner - "Whitefish", George Olson
- Best Actor - James Russo (The Box)
- Best Actress - Sally Andrews (Her Majesty)[22]
- Best San Diego Feature Film - Never Been Done, (dir. Matthew Powers)
- Best San Diego Filmmaker - Devin Scott
Night of the Stars Honorees
SDiFF2020
No awards banquet was held in 2020 due to COVID-19 protocols about social distancing.
SDiFF2019
Oct 18, 2019[23][24][25] | Pendry Hotel San Diego
Host: Scott Mantz
- Gregory Peck Award: Laurence Fishburne[26]
- Humanitarian Award: Lindsay Wagner
- Cinema Vanguard: Jared Harris
- Music Icon Award: Pitbull
- Fairbanks Award: Jillian Bell
- Rising Star Award: Camila Morrone
- Chris Brinker Award: Ravin Gandhi[27]
Confirmed Festival Guests: Stephen Gyllenhaal[28]
SDiFF2018
Oct 11, 2018[29][30][31] | Pendry Hotel San Diego
Host: Scott Mantz
- Gregory Peck Award: Keith Carradine
- Music Icon Award: Kenny Loggins
- Cinema Vanguard Award: Topher Grace
- Fairbanks Award: Kathryn Hahn
- Nemeth Humanitarian Award: Zachary Levi
- Spotlight Award: John Cho
- Auteur Award: Alex Wolff
- Rising Star Award: Christian Navarro
- Chris Brinker Award: Stare Yildirim
Confirmed Festival Guests: Hal Linden,[32] Nat Wolff,[33] Jassa Ahluwalia[34]
SDiFF2017
Oct 5, 2017[35] | Pendry Hotel San Diego
Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz
- Gregory Peck Award: Patrick Stewart
- Auteur Award: Kumail Nanjiani
- Virtuoso Award: Heather Graham
- Visionary Filmmaker Award: Taran Killam
- Rising Star Award: Blake Jenner
- Chris Brinker Award: Manny Rodriguez
Confirmed Festival Guests: Rian Johnson,[36] Nick Eversman (presenter)
SDiFF2016
Sept 29th, 2016[37][38] | Museum of Contemporary Art
Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz
- Gregory Peck Award: Annette Bening
- Auteur Award: Simon Helberg
- Cinema Vanguard Award: Kate Beckinsale
- Rising Star Award: Jason Mitchell
- Chris Brinker Award: Anne Hamilton
Confirmed Festival Guests: Warren Beatty,[39] Kevin Pollak,[40] Josie Totah (as JJ Totah),[41] Sean Patrick Flanery,[42] Kweku Mandela[43]
SDFF2015
Oct 1, 2015[44] - Museum of Contemporary Art
Host: Jeffrey Lyons
- Reframed Humanitarian Award: Geena Davis
- Cinema Vanguard Award: Adrien Brody
- Auteur Award: Brit Marling
- Rising Star Award: John Boyega
- Chris Brinker Award: Jack Robbins
Confirmed Festival Guest: Mika Haka,[45] Leslee Udwin, Roger Ross Williams, Dawn Porter[46]
SDFF2014
Sept 25, 2014 | Museum of Contemporary Art[47][48][49]
- Gregory Peck Award: Alan Arkin
- Cinema Vanguard Award: Beau Bridges[50]
- Excellence In Acting: Michele Monaghan
- Visionary Filmmaker Award: Eli Roth
- Virtuoso Award: Alison Pill
- American Legacy Award: Saginaw Grant
- Chris Brinker Award: John Hill
Confirmed Festival Guests:[51] Tom Berenger, Josh Duhamel, Dennis Haysbert, Stelio Savante
SDFF2013
Oct 3, 2013 | Museum of Contemporary Art[52][53]
- Humanitarian Award: Mariel Hemingway
- Visionary Filmmaker Award: Judd Apatow
- Emerging Producer Award: Justin Nappi
Confirmed Festival Guests: Michael B. Jordan,[54] Troy Duffy[55]
SDFF2012
Sept 27, 2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art[56]
- Visionary Filmmaker Award: Gus Van Sant[57]
Confirmed Guests: Robin Williams, Ben Affleck,[58] Diane Ladd,[59] Anne Heche, Pennie Lane, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Martin McDonagh,[60] Mark Christopher Lawrence[61]
SDFF2010
Sept 20, 2010[63]
Confirmed Guests: Jenna Fischer, Kim Coates, Leland Orser, Davis Guggenheim, Jason Ritter and Elliott Gould.
SDFF2009
- Indie Icon Award - Seymour Cassel
Confirmed Guests:[64] William Shatner, Richard Dreyfuss, James Van Der Beek, James Cromwell
SDFF2005
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Joan Collins
- Humanitarian Award: Joaquin Phoenix
- David Angell Humanitarian Award: John Walsh
- Soaring Star Award: Colin Hanks
- Discover Screenwriter Award: Paul Haggis
Confirmed Guests: Melissa Joan Hart, Bryan Greenberg, Ben Younger.
SDFF2004
- Lifetime Achievement Award - Cliff Robertson
- Governor's Award - Phyllis Diller
SDFF2002
Achievement in Acting Award:[67] James Woods
Confirmed Festival Guests:[68] Kevin Smith, Jeff Anderson, Rod Lurie, Tatum O’Neal, Cliff Robertson, Joey Lauren Adams and Scott Baio
By award
Best Narrative Feature
- 2020: Drunk Bus (dir. John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke)
- 2019: The Steed (dir. Erdenebileg Ganbold)
- 2018: Tiger (dir. Alisteir Grierson)
- 2017: The Bachelors (dir. Kurt Voelker)
- 2016: So B. It (dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal)
- 2015: Diablo (dir. Lawrence Roeck)
- 2014: Where the Road Runs Out (dir. Rudolf Buitendach)
Best Documentary
- 2020: MLK/FBI
- 2019: Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War (dir. Kerry David)
- 2018: Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War (dir. Susan Scott)
- 2017: The Last Animals (dir. Kate Brooks)
- 2016: Political Animals (dirs. Tracy Wares, Jonah Markowitz)
- 2015: India's Daughter (dir. Leslee Udwin)
- 2014: Waiting for Mamu (dir. Thomas A. Morgan)
Best Animation
- 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
for Best Native American Film
- 2020: Invasion: The Unist'ot'en's Fight for Sovereignty (dirs. Michael Toledano, Sam Vinal)
- 2019: Angelique's Isle (dir. Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michelle Derosier)
- 2018: Indian Horse (dir. Stephen Campanelli)
- 2017: Waabooz (dir. Molly Katagiri)
- 2016: Te Ata (dir. Nathan Frankowski)
- 2015: For Blood (dir. Chadwick Pelletier, J.T. Connor)
- 2014: Sycuan: Our People. Our Culture. Our History.
Best Documentary
- 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 )
Best Narrative Feature
- 2020: Drunk Bus
- 2019: Carol of the Bells (dir. Joey Travolta)
- 2018: I May Regret
- 2017: Life Hack
- 2016: Dead Draw (dir. Brian Klemesrud)
- 2015: Moments of Clarity (dir. Stev Elam)
- 2014: Cas & Dylan (dir. Jason Priestley)
- 2013: Autumn Blood (dir. Markus Blunder)
- 2011: Like Crazy (dir. Drake Doremus)
- 2010: Nowhere Boy (dir. Sam Taylor-Johnston)
- 2009: Reach for Me (dir. LeVar Burton)
- 2008: The Last Lullaby (dir. Jeffrey Goodman)
- 2006: Neo Ned (dir. Van Fischer)
- 2005: The Matador (dir. Richard Shepard)
Best Narrative Short
- 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
Best Studio/Gala Film
- 2020: Nomadland (dir. Chloe Zhao)
- 2019: Marriage Story (dir. Noah Baumbach)
- 2018: Boy Erased (dir. Joel Edgerton)
- 2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)
- 2015: He Named Me Malala (dir. Davis Guggenheim)
- 2014: The Imitation Game (dir. Morten Tyldum)
Gregory Peck Award
Chris Brinker Award
For best first time director.
- 2020: Prarthana Mohan
- 2019: Ravin Gandhi
- 2018: Stare Yildirim
- 2017: Manny Rodriguez
- 2016: Anne Hamilton
- 2015: Jack Robbins
- 2014: John Hill
Cinema Vanguard Award
- 2019: Jared Harris
- 2018: Topher Grace
- 2016: Kate Beckinsale
- 2015: Adrien Brody
- 2014: Beau Bridges
Humanitarian Award
- 2019: Lindsay Wagner
- 2018: Zachary Levi
- 2015: Geena Davis
- 2013: Muriel Hemingway
- 2005: Joaquin Phoenix
Auteur Award
- 2018: Alex Wolff
- 2017: Kumail Nanjiani
- 2016: Simon Helberg
- 2015: Brit Marling
Music Icon Award
- 2019: Pitbull
- 2018: Kenny Loggins
Rising Star Award
- 2019: Camila Morrone
- 2018: Christian Navarro
- 2017: Blake Jenner
- 2016: Jason Mitchell
- 2015: John Boyega
- 2005: Colin Hanks (Soaring Star)
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