Greta Gerwig, Roger Ross Williams, Cord Jefferson, Nicolas Cage to Receive SFFILM Awards

Barbie director Greta Gerwig, filmmakers Roger Ross Williams and Cord Jefferson and Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage are set to receive honors at the SFFILM Awards Night on Dec. 4 in San Francisco, organizers said on Wednesday.

The event honors achievement in film and its fundraising proceeds support the organization’s mission to “discover, nurture and showcase the next generation of film artists.”

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The awards season event at the city’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will see the Oscar-nominated Gerwig receive the Irving M. Levin Award for film direction from Barbie co-star Ryan Gosling and the Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman Award for Storytelling go to Stamped from the Beginning director Roger Ross Williams, an honor to be introduced by actor Raúl Castillo.

Barbie, which Gerwig penned with Noah Baumbach and stars Margot Robbie, has been a critical and box office success for Gerwig and is getting awards buzz.

In other SFFILM prize-giving, the George Gund III for Virtuosity Award will go to Cord Jefferson and be given to the American Fiction writer-director by actor John Ortiz. And Nicolas Cage will be honored with the Maria Manetti Shrem Lifetime Achievement Award for acting. Cage’s latest movie role is in Dream Scenario from director Kristoffer Borgli and A24.

“Greta, Roger, Cord and Nicolas all wear many creative hats, develop bold new ideas and are distinguished in more than one field. We selected these four individuals because each person brings a fearlessness to the craft of cinema, pushing the art form and offering incisive commentary on the world. We need their voices now more than ever,” SFFILM director of programming Jessie Fairbanks said in a statement.

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