2007 Awards
167 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 69 films each.
Most Liked
- Emma’s Bliss
- Sounds of Sand
- La vie en rose
- Four Minutes
- Getting Home
- Paris je t’aime – A Collective Feature Film
- Tell No One
- Vitus
- Prague
- The Life of Reilly
Top Documentaries
- For The Bible Tells Me So
- In the Shadow of the Moon
- Ballets Russes
- The Devil Came on Horseback
Top Archival Presentations
- Max Havelaar
- Berlin: Symphony of a City
- Remains of the Day
- Scaramouche
Special Category Awards
Category | Winner |
Best Director | Tie: Zabou Breitman (The Man of My Life), Olivier Dahan (La vie en rose) |
Best Script | Gillaume Canet and Phillippe Lefebvre (Tell No One) |
Best Cinematographer | Zhang Li (The Banquet) |
Best Music | Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Once) |
Best Actor | Christian Bale (Rescue Dawn) |
Best Actress | Marion Cotillard (La vie en rose) |
Best Guilty Pleasure | Black Sheep |
2006 Awards
171 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 70 films each.
Most Liked
- Elsa & Fred
- Mother of Mine
- I Am
- Iberia
- The Hidden Blade
- Snow Cake
- The Road To Guantanamo
- So Close, So Far
- The Cave Of The Yellow Dog
- Secret Festival #2
Top Documentaries
- The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
- Sentenced Home
- The World According to Sesame Street
- The Heart of the Game
Top Archival Presentations
- Black Orpheus
- Rome, Open City
- The Scarlett Letter
- The Window
Special Category Awards were not presented this year.
2005 Awards
163 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 68 films each.
Most Liked
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- Banlieue 13
- The Lizard
- The Ninth Day
- Yes
- Forgiveness
- Our Own
- 3-Iron
- Machuca
- Unconscious
Top Documentaries
- The Heart of the Game
- The Real Dirt on Farmer John
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Touch the Sound
Top Archival Presentations
- The Circus
- Gorky Trilogy 2: My Apprenticeship
- Gorky Trilogy 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
- The Peach Girl
Special Category Awards were not presented this year.
2004 Awards
193 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 69 films each.
Most Liked
- The Twilight Samurai
- Snow Walker
- Since Otar Left
- Hero
- Take My Eyes
- The Story of the Weeping Camel
- Dear Frankie
- The Best Of Youth: Part 2
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story
- Untold Scandal
Top Documentaries
- The Corporation
- Heir To an Execution
- Big City Dick
- Paper Clips
Top Archival Presentations
- Playtime
- The Man on the Train
- The Widow of Saint-Pierre
- The Girl on the Bridge
Special Category Awards
Category | Film |
Best Director | Zhang Yimou (Hero) |
Best Script | Shane Carruth (Primer) tied with Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama (The Twilight Samurai) |
Best Cinematographer | Christopher Doyle (Hero) |
Best Music | Tan Dun (Hero) |
Best Actor | Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes) |
Best Actress | Since Otar Left |
Best Guilty Pleasure | Danny Deckchair |
2003 Awards
236 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 63 films each.
Most Liked
- Oasis
- The Cuckoo
- Whale Rider
- Chaos
- Autumn Spring
- Magdalene Sisters
- Together
- Secret Festival #4
- A Soldier’s Girl
- Song For a Raggy Boy
Top Documentaries
- Capturing The Friedmans
- Winged Migration
- To Be and To Have
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Top Archival Presentations
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
- Le Cercle Rouge
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Come Drink With Me
Special Category Awards
Category | Film |
Best Director | Niki Caro (Whale Rider) |
Best Script | Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) |
Best Cinematographer | Gergely Pohárnok (Hukkle) |
Best Music | Zhao Lin (Together) |
Best Actor | Seol Kyung-gu (Oasis) |
Best Actress | Moon So-ri (Oasis) |
Best Guilty Pleasure | So Close |
2002 Fool Serious Awards
214 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 62 films each.
Most Liked
- The Fast Runner
- Das Experiment
- Elling
- Minoes
- Mostly Martha
- Sex and Lucia
- A Song for Martin
- Read My Lips
- Door To Door
- Malunde
Top Documentaries
- My Voyage to Italy
- Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
- Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War
- Smith Family
Top Archival Presentations
- Chinatown
- Joint Security Area
- Days of Heaven
- Sweet Smell of Success
Special Category Awards
Category | Film |
Best Director | Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia) |
Best Script | Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia) |
Best Cinematographer | Norman Cohn (Fast Runner) |
Best Music | Liz Gallacher (24 Hour Party People) |
Best Actor | William Macy (Door To Door) |
Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) |
Best Guilty Pleasure | Happiness of the Hatakuris |
2001 Awards
241 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 63 films each.
Most Liked
- Divided We Fall
- The Road Home
- Before The Storm
- The New Country
- Joint Security Area
- Bread and Tulips
- The Closet
- National 7
- Together
- Ali Zaoua
Top Documentaries
- Endurance
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
- Scratch
- Southern Comfort
Top Archival Presentations
- Diva
- The Bonnie Parker Story
- Betty Blue L’Integral
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
2000 Awards
219 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 63 films each.
Most Liked
- When the Rain Lifts
- Shower
- Under the Sun
- Butterfly
- I’m the One that I Want
- Solas
- The Five Senses
- Kirikou & the Sorceress
- Flowers From Another World
- Girl On the Bridge
Top Documentaries
- Long Nights Journey Into Day
- Sound and Fury
- Dark Days
- Keep the River
Top Archival Presentations
- Raging Bull
- Blood Simple
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Gallipoli
1999 (Tenth Annual) Awards
210 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 59 films each.
Most Favorite (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Run Lola Run
- Battleship Potemkin
- Return With Honor
- The Third Man
- Limbo
- Lovers of the Arctic Circle
- Earth
- Beseiged
- Some Like It Hot
- The Red Violin
Most Liked (highest scores)
- Run Lola Run
- Return With Honor
- Some Like It Hot
- Battleship Potemkin
- Earth
- The Third Man
- Limbo
- The Assault
- The Interview
1998 (9th Annual) Awards
209 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 58 films each.
Most Favorite (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Nights of Cabiria
- Lea
- Kingdom I
- Gods and Monsters
- The Hanging Garden
- Wilde
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Smoke Signals
- Kingdom II
Most Liked (highest scores)
- Nights of Cabiria
- Kingdom I
- Gods and Monsters
- Lea
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Perfect Circle
- The Children of Heaven
- God Said Ha!
- Smoke Signals
1997 (8th Annual) Awards
171 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 62 films each.
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- The Full Monty
- Earth
- The Pillow Book
- Shall We Dance?
- Comrades, Almost a Love Story
- The Children of the Revolution
- La Promesse
- Love Serenade
Most Liked films (highest scores)
- Paul Monette
- Shall We Dance?
- The Designated Mourner
- The Full Monty
- Coup de Torchon
- Sick: Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
- The Emperor’s Shadow
- The Unknown
1996 (7th Annual) Awards
142 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 60 films each.
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Lone Star
- The King of the Masks
- Trainspotting
- The Whole Wide World
- Angel Baby
- Man with a Movie Camera
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
Most Liked films (those with the highest weighted average vote)
- Lone Star
- The King of the Masks
- A Feast at Midnight
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Dadetown
- Margaret’s Museum
- Man with a Movie Camera
1995 (6th Annual) Awards
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- The Usual Suspects
- Smoke
- The Postman
- Burnt by the Sun
- The Kingdom
1994 (5th Annual) Awards
110 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 57 films each.
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Eat Drink Man Woman
- Clerks
- Fresh
- Love and Human Remains
1993 (4th Annual) Awards
157 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 52 films each.
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- The Wedding Banquet
- House of Angels
- Un Coeur en Hiver
- Orlando
- Sofie
1992 (3rd Annual) Awards
93 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 56 films each.
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Butterfly Wings
- Secret Festival #2
- IP5
- Betty Blue l’Integrale
- Martha and I
1991 (2nd Annual) Awards
92 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 60 films each.
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Strangers in Good Company
- La Gloire de Mon Pere
- Le Chateau de Ma Mere
- Secret Festival #2
- Halfaouine — Boy of the Terraces
1990 (1st Annual) Awards
Most Favorite films (those rated Most Favorite by the highest percentage of those who saw it, and by at least 10 voters)
- Jesus of Montreal
- May Fools
- Mystery Premiere
- A Handful of Time
- The Spider’s Web
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