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

1. Emma’s Bliss
2. Sounds of Sand
3. La vie en rose
4. Four Minutes
5. Getting Home
6. Paris je t’aime – A Collective Feature Film
7. Tell No One
8. Vitus
9. Prague
10. The Life of Reilly

Top Documentaries

1. For The Bible Tells Me So
2. In the Shadow of the Moon
3. Ballets Russes
4. The Devil Came on Horseback

Top Archival Presentations

1. Max Havelaar
2. Berlin: Symphony of a City
3. Remains of the Day
4. 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

1. Elsa & Fred
2. Mother of Mine
3. I Am
4. Iberia
5. The Hidden Blade
6. Snow Cake
7. The Road To Guantanamo
8. So Close, So Far
9. The Cave Of The Yellow Dog
10. Secret Festival #2

Top Documentaries

1. The Power Of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
2. Sentenced Home
3. The World According to Sesame Street
4. The Heart of the Game

Top Archival Presentations

1. Black Orpheus
2. Rome, Open City
3. The Scarlett Letter
4. 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

1. Howl’s Moving Castle
2. Banlieue 13
3. The Lizard
4. The Ninth Day
5. Yes
6. Forgiveness
7. Our Own
8. 3-Iron
9. Machuca
10. Unconscious

Top Documentaries

1. The Heart of the Game
2. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
3. Mad Hot Ballroom
4. Touch the Sound

Top Archival Presentations

1. The Circus
2. Gorky Trilogy 2: My Apprenticeship
3. Gorky Trilogy 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
4. 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

1. The Twilight Samurai
2. Snow Walker
3. Since Otar Left
4. Hero
5. Take My Eyes
6. The Story of the Weeping Camel
7. Dear Frankie
8. The Best Of Youth: Part 2
9. The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story
10. Untold Scandal

Top Documentaries

1. The Corporation
2. Heir To an Execution
3. Big City Dick
4. Paper Clips

Top Archival Presentations

1. Playtime
2. The Man on the Train
3. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
4. 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

1. Oasis
2. The Cuckoo
3. Whale Rider
4. Chaos
5. Autumn Spring
6. Magdalene Sisters
7. Together
8. Secret Festival #4
9. A Soldier’s Girl
10. Song For a Raggy Boy

Top Documentaries

1. Capturing The Friedmans
2. Winged Migration
3. To Be and To Have
4. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Top Archival Presentations

1. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
2. Le Cercle Rouge
3. Jason and the Argonauts
4. 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

1. The Fast Runner
2. Das Experiment
3. Elling
4. Minoes
5. Mostly Martha
6. Sex and Lucia
7. A Song for Martin
8. Read My Lips
9. Door To Door
10. Malunde

Top Documentaries

1. My Voyage to Italy
2. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
3. Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War
4. Smith Family

Top Archival Presentations

1. Chinatown
2. Joint Security Area
3. Days of Heaven
4. 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

1. Divided We Fall
2. The Road Home
3. Before The Storm
4. The New Country
5. Joint Security Area
6. Bread and Tulips
7. The Closet
8. National 7
9. Together
10. Ali Zaoua

Top Documentaries

1. Endurance
2. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
3. Scratch
4. Southern Comfort

Top Archival Presentations

1. Diva
2. The Bonnie Parker Story
3. Betty Blue L’Integral
4. 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

1. When the Rain Lifts
2. Shower
3. Under the Sun
4. Butterfly
5. I’m the One that I Want
6. Solas
7. The Five Senses
8. Kirikou & the Sorceress
9. Flowers From Another World
10. Girl On the Bridge

Top Documentaries

1. Long Nights Journey Into Day
2. Sound and Fury
3. Dark Days
4. Keep the River

Top Archival Presentations

1. Raging Bull
2. Blood Simple
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
4. 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)

1. Run Lola Run
2. Battleship Potemkin
3. Return With Honor
4. The Third Man
5. Limbo
6. Lovers of the Arctic Circle
7. Earth
8. Beseiged
9. Some Like It Hot
10. The Red Violin

Most Liked (highest scores)

1. Run Lola Run
2. Return With Honor
3. Some Like It Hot
4. Battleship Potemkin
5. Earth
6. The Third Man
7. Limbo
8. The Assault
9. 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)

1. Nights of Cabiria
2. Lea
3. Kingdom I
4. Gods and Monsters
5. The Hanging Garden
6. Wilde
7. Frank Lloyd Wright
8. Smoke Signals
9. Kingdom II

Most Liked (highest scores)

1. Nights of Cabiria
2. Kingdom I
3. Gods and Monsters
4. Lea
5. Frank Lloyd Wright
6. Perfect Circle
7. The Children of Heaven
8. God Said Ha!
9. 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)

1. The Full Monty
2. Earth
3. The Pillow Book
4. Shall We Dance?
5. Comrades, Almost a Love Story
6. The Children of the Revolution
7. La Promesse
8. Love Serenade

Most Liked films (highest scores)

1. Paul Monette
2. Shall We Dance?
3. The Designated Mourner
4. The Full Monty
5. Coup de Torchon
6. Sick: Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
7. The Emperor’s Shadow
8. 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)

1. Lone Star
2. The King of the Masks
3. Trainspotting
4. The Whole Wide World
5. Angel Baby
6. Man with a Movie Camera
7. Welcome to the Dollhouse

Most Liked films (those with the highest weighted average vote)

1. Lone Star
2. The King of the Masks
3. A Feast at Midnight
4. Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Dadetown
6. Margaret’s Museum
7. 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)

1. The Usual Suspects
2. Smoke
3. The Postman
4. Burnt by the Sun
5. 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)

1. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
2. Eat Drink Man Woman
3. Clerks
4. Fresh
5. 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)

1. The Wedding Banquet
2. House of Angels
3. Un Coeur en Hiver
4. Orlando
5. 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)

1. Butterfly Wings
2. Secret Festival #2
3. IP5
4. Betty Blue l’Integrale
5. 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)

1. Strangers in Good Company
2. La Gloire de Mon Pere
3. Le Chateau de Ma Mere
4. Secret Festival #2
5. 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)

1. Jesus of Montreal
2. May Fools
3. Mystery Premiere
4. A Handful of Time
5. The Spider’s Web

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