List of San Diego International Film Festival award winners

Oct 20, 2022[28][29][30] | The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla Confirmed Festival Guests: Jung Ryeo-won,[31] District Attorney Summer Stephan[32] Oct 14-24, 2021 No awards banquet was held in 2021 due to COVID-19 protocols about social distancing.

Oct 18, 2019[33][34][35] | Pendry Hotel San Diego Host: Scott Mantz Confirmed Festival Guests: Stephen Gyllenhaal,[38] Cindy Marten.

[39] Oct 11, 2018[40][41][42] | Pendry Hotel San Diego Host: Scott Mantz Confirmed Festival Guests: Hal Linden,[43] Nat Wolff,[44] Jassa Ahluwalia[45] Oct 5, 2017[46] | Pendry Hotel San Diego Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz Confirmed Festival Guests: Rian Johnson,[47] Nick Eversman (presenter) Sept 29th, 2016[48][49] | Museum of Contemporary Art Host: Jeffrey Lyons Co-hosts: Ben Lyons, Scott Mantz Confirmed Festival Guests: Warren Beatty,[50] Kevin Pollak,[51] Josie Totah (as JJ Totah),[52] Sean Patrick Flanery,[53] Kweku Mandela[54] Oct 1, 2015[55] - Museum of Contemporary Art Host: Jeffrey Lyons Confirmed Festival Guest: Mika Haka,[56] Leslee Udwin, Roger Ross Williams, Dawn Porter[57] Sept 25, 2014 | Museum of Contemporary Art[58][59][60] Confirmed Festival Guests:[62] Tom Berenger, Josh Duhamel, Dennis Haysbert, Stelio Savante Oct 3, 2013 | Museum of Contemporary Art[63][64] Confirmed Festival Guests: Michael B. Jordan,[65] Troy Duffy[66] Sept 27, 2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art[67] Confirmed Guests: Robin Williams, Ben Affleck,[70] Diane Ladd,[71] Anne Heche, Pennie Lane, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Martin McDonagh,[72] Mark Christopher Lawrence[73] Sep 28-Oct 2[74] Confirmed Guests: Will Reiser, Tom Sizemore, Lee Hirsch Sept 20, 2010[75] Confirmed Guests: Jenna Fischer, Kim Coates, Leland Orser, Davis Guggenheim, Jason Ritter and Elliott Gould.

Confirmed Guests:[76] William Shatner, Richard Dreyfuss, James Van Der Beek, James Cromwell Sept 24, 2005[77][78] Confirmed Guests: Melissa Joan Hart, Bryan Greenberg, Ben Younger.

Achievement in Acting Award:[79] James Woods Confirmed Festival Guests:[80] 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.

Joey Travolta directed Carol of the Belles, Winner of the 2019 Audience Award for Best Feature Film Award
Garrard Conley & Joel Edgerton , writer and director of Boy Erased
Audience Choice Award Winner for Best Studio Film
Kevin Pollak accepted the Best Comedy Award in 2016 for The Late Bloomer which he directed.
John Turturro won Best Actor Award in 2011
Mira Sorvino won the Best Actress Award in 2009
Paul Schrader won Best Screenplay in 2007
Felicity Huffman won Best Actress in 2005
Soleil Moon Frye directed the Best Documentary Winner in 2004
Andy Garcia received the Gregory Peck Award on October 20, 2022
Laurence Fishburne won the Gregory Peck Award in 2019
John Cho won the Spotlight Award in 2018
Kumail Nanjiani won the Auteur Award in 2017
Geena Davis won the Humanitarian Award in 2015
American Indian Advisory Board member Saginaw Grant received the American Legacy Award in 2014
Gus Van Sant won the Visionary Filmmaker Award and received a film retrospective in 2012
Joan Collins won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005
Stephen Gyllenhaal directed the 2016 winner So B. It
San Diego is in Kumeyaay Territory
Jason Priestley directed the winner of the 2014 Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
Malala Yousafzai starred in the Audience Choice for Best Documentary in 2015
Regina Hall will receive the Cinema Vanguard Award on October 20, 2022
Lindsay Wagner won the Humanitarian Award in 2019
Kenny Loggins won the Music Icon Award in 2018