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SXSW Grand Jury Award

Animated Short

Winner
Glove
7.2 (31)
Alexa Lim Haas
Bernardo Britto
Accidents, Blunders and Calamities
7.1 (169)
James Cunningham
Deer Flower
6.5 (76)
Kangmin Kim
Edmond
7.1 (329)
Nina Gantz
Geist
7.0 (191)
Ben Harper
Sean Mullen
Alex Sherwood
Heila Ormur
Rose Stark
Love
7.2 (187)
Réka Bucsi
Pombo Loves You
7.0 (56)
Steve Warne
Shiny
7.8 (265)
Daniel 'Cloud' Campos
Spencer Susser
Snowfall
7.7 (14)
Conor Whelan
Trash Cat
6.5 (37)
Kelsey Goldych

Documentary Feature

Winner
Tower
7.9 (8.5K)
Keith Maitland
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
7.6 (1.2K)
Matthew Ornstein
Alive and Kicking
7.2 (524)
Susan Glatzer
Best and Most Beautiful Things
6.4 (184)
Garrett Zevgetis
Goodnight Brooklyn - The Story of Death by Audio
7.9 (85)
Matthew Conboy
The Liberators
7.0 (71)
Cassie Hay
Orange Sunshine
7.3 (649)
William A. Kirkley
Ovarian Psycos
7.2 (58)
Joanna Sokolowski
Kate Trumbull-LaValle
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
7.2 (150)
Laura Dunn
The Space in Between: Marina Abramovic and Brazil
7.1 (498)
Marco Del Fiol

Documentary Short

Winner
These C*cksucking Tears
7.7 (40)
Dan Taberski
Alive & Kicking: The Soccer Grannies of South Africa
7.8 (6)
Lara-Ann de Wet
Another Kind of Girl
7.3 (21)
Khaldiya Jibawi
Bacon & God's Wrath
7.0 (97)
Sol Friedman
Like
5.8 (52)
Garrett Bradley
Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings
8.0 (43)
James Scott
MissMe: The Artful Vandal
Mohammad Gorjestani
Phil's Camino
8.8 (20)
Jessica Lewis
Annie O'Neil
The Provider
Maya Cueva
Leah Galant
The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere
8.0 (103)
Mickey Duzyj
The Black Belt
5.8 (10)
Margaret Brown
Dollhouse
6.5 (8)
Corey Creasey(as Terri Timely)
Ian Kibbey(as Terri Timely)

Midnight Short

Winner
Manoman
7.0 (201)
Simon Cartwright
An Arm's Length
7.1 (8)
Max Weiland
Okaasan ni naisho
6.0 (29)
Sawako Kabuki
Eat My Shit
4.7 (574)
Eduardo Casanova
Gwilliam
5.7 (145)
Brian Lonano
Night of the Slasher
6.4 (419)
Shant Hamassian
Night Stalker
5.9 (44)
Mike Anderson
Ryan Dickie
Abigail Horton
The Procedure
5.5 (294)
Calvin Lee Reeder
A Reasonable Request
6.7 (319)
Andrew Laurich
Seth
7.8 (82)
Zach Lasry
The Smiling Man
6.2 (1.4K)
A.J. Briones
Snatchers
7.0 (28)
Stephen Cedars
Benji Kleiman
The Smiling Man
6.2 (1.4K)
Tefft Smith(producer)

Music Video

Winner
Childish Gambino: Sober
8.6 (652)
Hiro Murai

Narrative Feature

Winner
The Arbalest
5.7 (96)
Adam Pinney
Before the Sun Explodes
5.7 (190)
Debra Eisenstadt
Claire in Motion
4.4 (759)
Annie J. Howell
Lisa Robinson
Collective: Unconscious
5.7 (197)
Lily Baldwin
Nuotama Bodomo
Daniel Patrick Carbone
Josephine Decker
Lauren Wolkstein
Donald Cried
6.6 (1.4K)
Kris Avedisian
Hunter Gatherer
6.2 (690)
Josh Locy
Miss Stevens
6.5 (8.2K)
Julia Hart
The Other Half
5.3 (949)
Joey Klein
A Stray
8.5 (59)
Musa Syeed
Transpecos
5.8 (3.1K)
Greg Kwedar

Narrative Short

Winner
How Was Your Day?
7.7 (85)
Damien O'Donnell
Barry
6.8 (44)
Jay Rondot
Pojkarna
7.1 (33)
Isabella Carbonell
Crooked 180
6.7 (23)
Kevin Boitelle
Dastaar
6.8 (22)
Javian Ashton Le
Ernestine & Kit
7.5 (26)
Simon Bird
The First Men
5.9 (30)
Benjamin Kegan
Greener Grass
6.6 (304)
Paul Briganti
Her Friend Adam
6.6 (205)
Ben Petrie
Homeful Bliss
6.9 (7)
Jan van Dyck
Hip Hip Hooray
6.4 (39)
Lizzy Born
Homebodies
5.8 (84)
Yianni Warnock
Quelques secondes
5.7 (8)
Nora el Hourch
She Stoops to Conquer
7.7 (22)
Zachary Russell
Thunder Road
7.7 (2K)
Jim Cummings
Too Legit
5.7 (147)
Frankie Shaw
Victor XX
6.5 (56)
Ian de la Rosa
Where You Are
7.0 (109)
Graham Parkes
Woman in Deep
5.9 (135)
Janicza Bravo
Home
6.7 (450)
Daniel Mulloy
Jumpers
7.2 (9)
Anonymous
Greener Grass
Jocelyn DeBoer
Dawn Luebbe

Texas High School Short

Winner
Lady of Paint Creek
Alexia Salingaros

Texas Short

Winner
The Send-Off
6.8 (25)
Patrick Bresnan
Ivete Lucas
1985
6.8 (85)
Yen Tan
Joan on the Phone
Kayla Galang
The Mink Catcher
7.7 (24)
Samantha Buck
Minor Setback
5.7 (7)
Augustine Frizzell
The Superlative Light
Ben Steinbauer
Thunder P
Steve Collins
Two Cities
Darius Clark Monroe

Special Jury Award

Animated Short

Winner
Pombo Loves You
7.0 (56)
Steve Warne

Best Actor - Narrative Feature

Winner
Andre Royo
Hunter Gatherer

Best Actress - Narrative Feature

Winner
Lily Rabe
Miss Stevens

Documentary Feature

Winner
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
7.6 (1.2K)
Matthew Ornstein
For portrait documentary.
Winner
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
7.2 (150)
Lee Daniel
For cinematography.

Documentary Short

Winner
Dollhouse
6.5 (8)
Corey Creasey(as Terri Timely)
Ian Kibbey(as Terri Timely)

Midnight Short

Winner
Okaasan ni naisho
6.0 (29)
Sawako Kabuki

Narrative Short

Winner
Thunder Road
7.7 (2K)
Jim Cummings
For acting.
Winner
Greener Grass
6.6 (304)
Paul Briganti

Texas High School Short

Winner
The Archer Hadley Story
Ben Root
Alex Treviño

Texas Short

Winner
1985
6.8 (85)
Lindsay Pulsipher
For acting.

Audience Award

24 Beats Per Second

Winner
Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke
8.2 (20)
Sam Wainwright Douglas
Brenda Mitchell

Documentary Feature

Winner
Tower
7.9 (8.5K)
Keith Maitland

Documentary Spotlight

Winner
Mr Gaga, sur les pas d'Ohad Naharin
7.5 (974)
Tomer Heymann

Episodic

Winner
Vice Principals
8.0 (36K)
David Gordon Green
Jody Hill
Danny McBride

Excellence in Title Design

Winner
We Are X
7.5 (1.1K)
Allison Brownmoore

Festival Favorites

Winner
Gleason
8.3 (3.2K)
Clay Tweel

Headliners

Winner
Demolition
7.0 (124K)
Jean-Marc Vallée

Midnighters

Winner
I Am a Hero
6.7 (8.3K)
Shinsuke Satô
My Father Die
5.6 (1.1K)

Narrative Feature

Winner
Transpecos
5.8 (3.1K)
Greg Kwedar

Narrative Spotlight

Winner
From Nowhere
6.7 (417)
Matthew Newton

SXGlobal

Winner
Ghostland: The View of the Ju'Hoansi
7.3 (167)
Simon Stadler

Visions

Winner
O Roubo da Taça
6.6 (655)
Caito Ortiz
Loev
5.9 (2.9K)
Sudhanshu Saria
Four Line Films
Bombay Berlin Film Productions

Best Documentary

Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
7.4 (171)
Scott D. Rosenbaum(Director, Writer)
Jasin Cadic(Writer, Producer)
Tony Grazia(Producer)
Red Hawk Films

Louis Black/Lone Star Award

Winner
Tower
7.9 (8.5K)
Keith Maitland

Gamechanger Emergent Woman Director Award

We Believe in You Award

Operator
6.0 (2.1K)
Logan Kibens
Cruze & Company

Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship

Winner
Eileen Meyer

SXSW Gamechanger Award

Winner
My Blind Brother
6.1 (4.9K)
Sophie Goodhart
Before the Sun Explodes
5.7 (190)
Debra Eisenstadt
Claire in Motion
4.4 (759)
Annie J. Howell
Lisa Robinson
Collective: Unconscious
5.7 (197)
Lily Baldwin
Nuotama Bodomo
Josephine Decker
Lauren Wolkstein
Miss Stevens
6.5 (8.2K)
Julia Hart
Alive and Kicking
7.2 (524)
Susan Glatzer
The Liberators
7.0 (71)
Cassie Hay
Ovarian Psycos
7.2 (58)
Joanna Sokolowski
Kate Trumbull-LaValle
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
7.2 (150)
Laura Dunn
Jean of the Joneses
6.4 (555)
Stella Meghie
Qui a peur du Slenderman?
6.2 (8.7K)
Irene Taylor
Chicken People
7.0 (969)
Nicole Lucas Haimes
Fantastic Lies
8.0 (1.3K)
Marina Zenovich
Seven Songs for a Long Life
7.3 (39)
Amy Hardie
American Fable
5.8 (4.7K)
Anne Hamilton
My Beautiful Broken Brain
7.0 (2.5K)
Sophie Robinson
Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke
8.2 (20)
Brenda Mitchell
Miss Sharon Jones!
7.3 (715)
Barbara Kopple
The Smart Studios Story
7.6 (48)
Wendy Schneider
Mate-me por favor
5.8 (804)
Anita Rocha da Silveira
Papagajka
6.7 (68)
Emma Rozanski
Semana Santa
6.0 (249)
Alejandra Márquez Abella
UIO: Sácame a Pasear
5.6 (202)
Micaela Rueda
Yarn
6.2 (98)
Una Lorenzen
Heather Millard
Cameraperson
7.4 (3.5K)
Kirsten Johnson
Chevalier
6.2 (5.2K)
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Newtown
6.9 (1.7K)
Kim A. Snyder
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
7.3 (444)
Karen Bernstein
Trapped
7.2 (272)
Dawn Porter
Search Party
7.6 (15K)
Sarah-Violet Bliss
You Me Her
7.0 (11K)
Nisha Ganatra

SXSW Film Design Award

Excellence in Poster Design

Winner
MissMe: The Artful Vandal
MissMe

Excellence in Title Design

Winner
Sunstone
Aimée Duchamp
2001: An Edm Odyssey
Josh James Lim
Avengers : L'Ère d'Ultron
7.3 (967K)
Perception
Crimson Peak
6.5 (164K)
Ron Gervais
Dave Greene
Daredevil
8.6 (510K)
Patrick Clair
Dina Foxx: Tödlicher Kontakt
6.4 (7)
Martin Hess
Niko Tziopanos
The Expanse
8.5 (185K)
Breeder
Will Reid
FITC Toronto 2015 - Evolution
Flesh and Bone
7.8 (12K)
Angus Wall
Hickey
4.0 (266)
Karin Fong
Shannon Hoyne
Imagine - Motion Response by Visual Playground for Pause Fest 2015
J. Kessels
5.8 (530)
David de Winter
The Leftovers
8.3 (123K)
Angus Wall
Season 2
Measuring Evil: Britain's Worst Killers
7.6 (14)
Clemens Wirth
Opération Muppets
6.4 (38K)
William Lebeda
David Midgen
Iris Azadi
James Coulson
Nitehawk Shorts Festival Opening Titles
Raoul Marks
Semi-Permanent 2015
007 Spectre
6.8 (483K)
William Bartlett
Daniel Kleinman
Suburban Cowboy
6.3 (123)
Zsombor Huszka
TURN: Washington's Spies
8.1 (24K)
Michael Riley
Bob Swensen
Aaron Bjork
Eddie Moreno
Versailles
7.9 (20K)
Charles Bertrand
Visitantes
4.9 (375)
Maribel Martinez Galindo
Wayward Pines
7.3 (63K)
William Lebeda
Cecilia de Jesus
We Are X
7.5 (1.1K)
Allison Brownmoore
Anthony Brownmoore
Patrick Clair
Wired by Design 2014
You are the Canvas
Jean-Paul Frenay
Zoolander No. 2
4.7 (80K)
Kyle Cooper

SXSW Film Design Award - Special Jury Recognition

Excellence in Poster Design

Winner
Eat My Shit
4.7 (574)
Octavio Terol Bernabé
Winner
Night Stalker
5.9 (44)
New Media Ltd.

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