It was interesting to see how the Official Competition were rated, and whether the Sydney Film Prize and Audience Award winners fared as well here. Some films were very divisive (The Rover and Snowpiercer covered almost every grade), others were almost unanimously praised or panned.
There were quite a lot of films that received a two or less votes, so I am going to list them here (with the average rating) and not include them in the final rankings: All This Mayhem (4.5), Beijing Ants (2.5), Black Panther Woman (5), Concerning Violence (3.25), Dancing in the Room (2), Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead (3), Demonstration (3), Faith Connections (3.5), Goal of the Dead (2.75), If You Don't, I Will (3.25), Ilo Ilo (3.75), Iranian (4), Jimi: All Is By My Side (2.5), Keep on Keepin' On (3.5), Love Eternal (3), Love Marriage in Kabul (4), Mothers (2.25), Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (3.5), Once My Mother (4), Stop The Pounding Heart (3.5), Tender (3.5), The Battered Bastards of Baseball (3.5), The Gold Spinners (3), The Little Death (1), The Referee (3.25), The Second Game (3.5), Ukraine is not a Brothel (3.25), When Animals Dream (3.25), Till Madness Do Us Part (3.5), Up in the Wind (2), The Salt of the Earth (4.5) and The Fake (2).
And here are this year's Retrospectives (Robert Altman, Studio Ghibli and James Benning) and the Classics Restored, which also received limited votes: American Dreams (Lost and Found) (4.5), Deseret (3.88), Grave of the Fireflies (2.75), Hiroshima Mon Amour (5), M*A*S*H (5), McCabe and Mrs Miller (4.75), My Neighbour Totoro (4.5), Nashville (5), Nightfall (4.33), Rebel Without A Cause (4.5), That Cold Day in the Park (3.25), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (3.75) and Wedding, A (4).
Finally, here is a tally of the films with three or more votes from the contributors from the Official Competition, the Documentary Australia Foundation Award, Special Presentations at the State, Features, The Box Set, International Documentaries, Sounds On Screen, China: Rebels Ghosts and Romantics and the Freak Me Out sections of the program.
