Audience Award
Winner: A Boy and His Samurai
Runners-up: You’re Next, Juan of the Dead
AMD & Dell ‘Next Wave’ Spotlight Competition
Best Picture: Bullhead
Best Director: Michael R. Roskam (Bullhead)
Best Screenplay: Josh MacDonald (The Corridor)
Best Actor: Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead)
Best Actress: Jessica Cole (Aardvark)
Special Jury Award for Boldness Of Vision: Beyond the Black Rainbow
Horror Features
Best Picture: You’re Next
Best Director: Adam Wingard (You’re Next)
Best Screenplay: Simon Barrett (You’re Next)
Best Actor: Sean Harris (A Lonely Place To Die)
Best Actress: Sharni Vinson (You’re Next)
Fantastic Features
Best Picture: Milocrorze: A Love Story
Best Director: Noboru Iguchi (Karate Robo Zaborgar)
Best Screenplay: Olafur Egilsson, Grimur Haonarson (Summerland)
Best Actor: Julián Villagrán (Extraterrestrial)
Best Actress: Sawa Masaki (Underwater Love)
Gutbuster Comedy Features
Best Picture: Clown
Best Director: Steffen Haars, Flip Van Der Kuil (New Kids Turbo)
Best Screenplay: Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam (Clown)
Short Fuse: Horror Shorts
Winner: “How To Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused by You”
Runner-up: “The Unliving”
Special Jury Award for Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects and General Badassery: “Brutal Relax”
Fantastic Shorts
Best Fantastic Short: “Decapoda Shock”
Runner-up: “All Men Are Called Robert”
Special Jury Mention for Acting: Robert Picardo (“The Candidate”)
Drawn and Quartered: Animated Shorts
Best Animated Short: “Last Norwegian Troll”
Runner-up: “Lazarov”
For more dispatches from Fantastic Fest, see austinchronicle.com/fantastic-fest.
This article appears in September 30 • 2011.