170 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press, sponsor and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 68 films each.

Most Liked

1. Departures
2. North Face
3. Tears of April
4. Séraphine
5. Necessities of Life
6. The Hurt Locker
7. That Evening Sun
8. Troubled Water
9. Moon
10. Kabei – Our Mother

Top Documentaries

1. Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country
2. Every Little Step
3. The Beaches of Agnès
4. Sweet Crude

Top Archival

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. The Third Man
4. Dodsworth

The Special Category Award Winners

Category	Person and/or Film
Best Director	Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Script	a tie between Lynn Shelton for Humpday and Kundo Koyama for Departures.
Best Cinematographer	Kolja Brandt for North Face
Best Music	Osvaldo Golijov for Tetro
Best Actor	Natar Ungalaaq for Necessities of Life
Best Actress	Yolande Moreau for Séraphine
Best Guilty Pleasure	a tie between ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction and Black Dynamite

 

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