The Society's online archive databases contain listings of the over 5,000 films and hundreds of awards, tributes and in-person guests from the Festival's entire history.

Festival Films Past
A searchable database with over 5,000 films that contains credits, descriptions and print sources.

Festival Guests Past
A searchable database of over 1,000 prominent guests who have attended the Festival, the year they attended and the film they attended in connection with

Festival Tributes Past
A searchable database of the Festival's major award and tribute recipients, including the Akira Kurosawa Award, Peter J. Owens Award, Mel Novikoff Award, Skyy Prize, Persistence of Vision Award, The Unvanquished, Piper-Heidsieck Award, New Directors and numerous other tributes and retrospectives. Golden Gate Award winners are listed with the films under Festival Films Past.

The databases will be updated with more complete data. You can help by reporting any errors or omissions you notice.

The task of preparing this information for publication is being carried out by volunteers in the Film Society's History Project. The History Project needs volunteers. If you would like to help with research, fact-checking, data entry, filing or scanning photos, please contact Jennifer Preissel.