Huge congratulations to the Dardenne Brothers' Two Days, One Night, winner of the Sydney Film Festival Prize and Festival Director Nashen Moodley for programming another fantastic festival.
To wrap it all up, here are some personal awards I’d like to honour
some of the very best with:
Best Feature Film: Mommy
Runner/s Up: What We Do In the Shadows, Tom at the Farm and Snowpiercer
Best Documentary: The Possibilities Are Endless
Runner/s Up: Jodorowsky's Dune and 20,000 Days on Earth
Best Debut Feature: Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Him and Her)
Runner/s Up: Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard, 20,000 Days on Earth
Best Actor: Brendon Gleeson, Calvary
Runner/s Up: Antoine Olivier-Pinon, Mommy and Jack O'Connell, Starred Up
Best Actress: Anne Dorval, Mommy
Runner/s Up: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night and Jessica Chastain, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her.
Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Clement, Mommy
Runner/s Up: Demet Akbag, Winter Sleep, Viola Davis, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Best Supporting Actor: Jemaine Clement, What We Do In The Shadows
Runner/s Up: Ethan Hawke, Boyhood, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Tom at the Farm
Best Director: Xavier Dolan, Mommy and Tom at the Farm
Runner/s Up: Joon-Ho Bong, Snowpiercer, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Two Days One Night
Best Screenplay: John Michael McDonagh, Calvary
Runner/s Up: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep and Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Best Cinematography: Mommy
Runner/s Up: Winter Sleep and Black Coal, Thin Ice
Best Editing: Boyhood
Runner/s Up: 20,000 Days on Earth, Snowpiercer
Best Score: Tom at the Farm
Runner/s Up: What We Do In The Shadows, Snowpiercer
Weirdest Film (In a Good Way): Of Horses and Men and Snowpiercer *tie*
Best Scene: 'A vision of the future' in Mommy, 'a colleague full of regret' in Two Days, One Night and 'packing the apartment' in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him.
Final Rankings:
Top 10: Mommy, What We Do in the Shadows, The Possibilities Are Endless, Tom at the Farm, Snowpiercer, Two Days, One Night, Boyhood, Jodorowsky's Dune, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and Winter Sleep.