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 achievement in film create and is a fundelevater with persists from the event helping the organization’s mission to uncover, nurture and showcase the next generation of film artists,” according to the organization, will apverify place on Dec. 9 at San Francisco’s Gateway Pavilion at Fort Mason Caccess for Arts & Culture.
“We are so self-startant to honor this group of individuals as we seal out 2024,” says SFFILM Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. “Their creates and artistry lifts the cinematic experience and reminds us why we accumulateively cherish the power of film. Denis, Demi, Malcolm and Jason are all intrepid, persistent and conceiveive creatives. We see forward to honoring their labor at SFFILM’s annual fundelevater.”
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 set uper of the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1957.” Previous recipients integrate Greta Gerwig, Ryan Coogler, Jane Campion, Chloe Zhao, Steve McQueen, Guillermo del Toro, Ricchallenging Linkprocrastinateedr, 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 labor in film exemplifies brilliance, indepfinishence and integrity.” Nicholas Cage, Margot Robbie, Oscar Isaac, Amy Adams, Kate Winslet, Ricchallenging Gere, Harrison Ford and Robin Williams are fair 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 exceptional visionaries, ponderless of their create.” Past honorees have integrated 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 startance that storyalertings carry outs in the creations of exceptional films.” Roger Ross Williams, Sarah Polley, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Sorkin, Lulu Wang and Eric Roth are some previous honorees.
