Chloé Zhao, Aaron Sorkin announced as first SFFILM Awards Night honorees

SFFILM Awards Night has quickly become one of the top stops of an ever-growing awards season and this year is no different.

The 2020 edition of SFFILM Awards Night, the org’s annual fundraising celebration honoring achievement in filmmaking craft, is taking place on December 9 as a live online event — which means everyone’s invited. SFFILM pays tribute to some of the most important film artists of today, while raising funds in support of SFFILM’s work to cultivate the film artists of tomorrow. 

Confirmed to attend this year’s event are Aaron Sorkin, recipient of the Kanbar Award for Storytelling; and Chloé Zhao, recipient of the Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction. The recipients of additional Awards Night honors, including the SFFILM Award for Acting, will be announced soon.

Last year’s honorees included Adam Driver, Lulu Wang, Marielle Heller and Chinonye Chukwu.

The SFFILM Awards Night is SFFILM’s annual fundraiser. The 2020 live virtual event will bring together this year’s most notable film talent with the Bay Area film community to celebrate the power of storytelling.

Grab your tickets today and get in on this opportunity to check out SFFILM’s most exciting event of the year from home, while also supporting their year-round work in film exhibition, youth education, and artist development.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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