The Marlon Riggs Award is a category of the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards program named after Black gay filmmaker, educator, poet, and activist Marlon Riggs and is awarded to "Bay Area filmmaker(s) or individual(s) who represents courage and innovation in the world of cinema."
Established in 2003 by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle, the first winner of the Marlon Riggs Award was filmmaker Sam Green for his Academy Award nominated film, "The Weather Underground".