The 50th Telluride Film Festival took place between August 31 and September 4, 2023, in Telluride, Colorado. Marking the fiftieth edition of the festival, Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Curtis, Ethan Hawke, Rachel Kushner, Steve McQueen, and Mira Nair, all of them past guests, were invited to return as Guest Directors. The poster for Telluride Film Festival's fiftieth anniversary, designed by Luke Dorman, was released in July 2023. Dorman is the Principal Graphic Designer at Meow Wolf.^[1]

The event's program was revealed one day before its start, as customary,^[2] though it was entirely possible to predict some of the event's films based on their premiere status shared by other festivals, such as the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. The marketing material for Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers also shared its place on the selection a few days before being officially confirmed by the festival's line-up.

Filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos, Alice Rohrwacher and Wim Wenders were this year's recipients of the Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion, while Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation was the winner of the Special Medallion.