Demi Moore, Denis Villeneuve, Malcolm Washington and Jason Reitman were proclaimd as this year’s honorees of the SFFILM Awards Night.
The awards night, which “honors exemplary accomplishment in film plan and is a fundliftr with persists from the event helping the organization’s leave oution to uncover, nurture and showcase the next generation of film artists,” according to the organization, will consent place on Dec. 9 at San Francisco’s Gateway Pavilion at Fort Mason Caccess for Arts & Culture.
“We are so haughty to honor this group of individuals as we shut out 2024,” says SFFILM Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. “Their plans and artistry lifts the cinematic experience and reminds us why we accumulateively adore the power of film. Denis, Demi, Malcolm and Jason are all intrepid, rerepaird and createive creatives. We see forward to honoring their toil at SFFILM’s annual fundliftr.”
Villeneuve (straightforwardor of Dune: Part Two) will get the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction, which is currented “each year to one of the masters of world cinema and is given in memory of the createer of the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1957.” Previous recipients retain Greta Gerwig, Ryan Coogler, Jane Campion, Chloe Zhao, Steve McQueen, Guillermo del Toro, Ricdifficult Linktardyr, Kenneth Branagh, Spike Lee and Werner Herzog, among others.
Moore, who stars in The Substance this year, will get the Maria Manetti Shrem Award for Acting, which has been awarded since 1996 and honors a “carry outer whose toil in film exemplifies brilliance, indepfinishence and integrity.” Nicholas Cage, Margot Robbie, Oscar Isaac, Amy Adams, Kate Winslet, Ricdifficult Gere, Harrison Ford and Robin Williams are equitable a scant actors who have getd the award previously.
Washington, who made his straightforwardorial debut this year with The Piano Lesson, is set to be honored with the George Gund III Award, which is currented each year to “one of the world cinema’s noticeworthy visionaries, seeless of their plan.” Past honorees have retaind Stephanie Hsu and Cord Jefferson.
Lastly, Reitman, who this year straightforwarded and co-wrote Saturday Night, will get the Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman Award for Storyalerting, which “acunderstandledges the critical transport inance that storyalertings joins in the creations of noticeworthy films.” Roger Ross Williams, Sarah Polley, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Sorkin, Lulu Wang and Eric Roth are some previous honorees.
