Eugene Mirman hosted the SXSW Film Awards tonight. After the jump, find out who went home happy …
JURY AWARDS
Documentary Feature
Winner: Marwencol (D: Jeff Malmberg)
Runner-up: War Don Don (D: Rebecca Richman Cohen)
Narrative Feature
Winner: Tiny Furniture (D: Lena Durham)
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble: Myth of the American Sleepover
Special Jury Award for Best Individual Performance: Brian Hasenfus in Phillip the Fossil
Narrative Shorts
Winner: “Cigarette Candy” (D: Lauren Wolkstein)
Runner-up: “Teleglobal Dreamin’” (D: Eric Flanagan
Documentary Shorts
Winner: “Quadrangle” (D: Amy Grappell)
Runner-up: “White Lines and the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug” (D: Travis Senger)
Animated Shorts
Winner: “The Orange” (D: Nick Fox-Gieg)
Runner-up: “One Square Mile of Earth” (D: Jeff Drew)
Experimental Shorts
Winner: “Night Mayor” (D: Guy Maddin)
Runner-up: “Kids Might Fly” (D: Alex Taylor)
Music Videos
Winner: Cinnamon Chasers, “Luv Deluxe” (D: Saman Keshavarz
Runner-up: Grizzly Baer, “Forest” (D: Alison Schulnik)
Texas Shorts
Winner: “Petting Sharks” (D: Craig Elrod)
Runner-up: “The Big Bends” (D: Jason William Marlow)
Time Warner Cable & Ovation Young Filmmaker Scholarship for Texas High School Short
Winner: “Give the Dog a Bone” (D: Edward Kelley)
Runner-up: “The Sleep Project” (D: Whitney Bennett & Matthew Cunningham)
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Documentary Feature
Winner: For Once in My Life (D: Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann)
Narrative Feature
Winner: Brotherhood (D: Will Cannon)
SXSW FILM DESIGN AWARDS
Excellence in Poster Design
Winner: Feeder (Designer: Joseph Ernst)
Runner-up: Amer (Designer: Gilles Vranckx)
Audience Award Winner: Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission (Designer: Michael Anderson)
Special Jury Award: Equestrian Sexual Response (Designers: Martim Vian & Zeke Hawkins)
Excellence in Title Design
Winner: Zombieland (Designer: Ben Conrad)
Runner-Up: earthwork (Designer: Stan Herd)
Audience Award Winner: earthwork (Designer: Stan Herd)
Special Jury Award: Enter the Void (Desingers: Gaspar Noé and Tom Karm)
SXSW SPECIAL AWARDS
SXSW Wholphin Award
Winner: “Quadrangle” (D: Amy Grappell)
SXSW Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award
Winner: Lena Durham for Tiny Furniture
Special Award – The Chicken & Egg Pictures “We Believe in You” Award: Martha Stephens for Passenger Pigeons
JURORS Narrative Feature Competition: Peter Debruge, Karen Durbin, Joshua Leonard; Documentary Feature Competition: Nelson George, Karina Longworth, Thom Powers; Narrative Shorts: Amy Dotson, Christian Gaines, Todd Luoto; Documentary Shorts: Don R. Lewis, Ron Mann, Finlay Pretsell; Experimental Shorts: Spencer Parsons, Esther Robinson, Kelly Sears; Animated Shorts: Emily Hubley, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Nathan Zellner; Music Videos: Margaret Brown, Philip Harder, James Kochalka; Texas Shorts: Christopher Holland, Chris Mass, Anne Walker-McBay; Texas High School Shorts: Marcy Garriott, Delicia Harvey, Bart Weiss; Title Design: Ian Albinson, Alexander Ulloa, Susan Bradley, Karin Fong, Ron Pippin, Remko Vlaanderen.
This article appears in March 12 • 2010.
