Career
At the time of his death, he was executive director of the San Francisco Film Society. As noted by the Independent Feature Project"s Gotham Independent Film Awards, "New to the Gotham Awards this year is the Bingham Ray Award, an award bestowed upon an emerging filmmaker whose work exemplifies a distinctive creative vision and stylistic adventurousness that stands apart from the mainstream and warrants championing. The goal is to bring additional attention to new artists whose work could be seen as conceivably joining the ranks of filmmakers championed by industry veteran Bingham Ray, who died in January."
Oden Roberts, Director and Writer, "A Fighting Season" was awarded the SFFS Korea Research Foundation grant by Bingham in December of 2011.
Benh Zeitlin, director and co-writer of Beasts of the Southern Wild, was the inaugural recipient of the Bingham Ray Award.
The 39th Telluride Film Festival in 2013 was dedicated to him.
