Awards - Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) - 2014-2023

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now (Fox Maxy)

Best Fiction Short Film

• I Promise You Paradise (Morad Mostafa)

Best Animated Short Film

• 27 (Flóra Anna Buda)

Best Documentary Short Film

• Dipped in Black (Derik Lynch, Matthew Thorne)

Best Experimental Short Film

• Mast-Del (Maryam Tafakory)

Best Australian Short Film

• Katele (Mudskipper) (John Harvey)

Bright Horizons Award

• Banel & Adama (Ramata-Toulaye Sy)

Bright Horizons Special Jury Mention

• Tótem (Lila Avilés)

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• Annelise Hickey (Hafekasi)

Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award

• Soda_Jerk (Hello Dankness)

First Nations Film Creative Award

• Kindred (Gillian Moody, Adrian Russell Wills)

Audience Award

• This Is Going to Be Big (Thomas Charles Hyland)

MIFF Schools Youth Jury Award

• This Is Going to Be Big (Thomas Charles Hyland)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Murmurs of the Jungle (Sohil Vaidya)

Best Short Film

• Trumpets in the Sky (Rakan Mayasi)

Best Fiction Short Film

• Moshari (Nuhash Humayun)

Best Animated Short Film

• Ice Merchants (João Gonzalez)

Best Documentary Short Film

• Will You Look at Me (Shuli Huang)

Best Experimental Short Film

• Nazarbazi (Maryam Tafakory)

Best Australian Short Film

• An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (Lachlan Pendragon)

Bright Horizons Award

• Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams)

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard (Tremor)

Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award

• Jub Clerc (Sweet As)

Grand Prix - Feature Film

• Madalena (Madiano Marcheti)

Best Short Film

• The Game (Roman Hodel)

Best Fiction Short Film

• Nina (Hristo Simeonov)

Best Documentary Short Film

• Listen to the Beat of Our Images (Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime Jean-Baptiste)

Best Experimental Short Film

• Happy Valley (Simon Liu)

Best Australian Short Film

• Baltasar (Brietta Hague)

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• Jordan Giusti (Reptile)

MIFF XR

• Bridge to Sovietopia (Marie Alice Wolfszahn)

Grand Prix - Feature Film

• Digger (Georgis Grigorakis)

Best Documentary Short Film

• 3 Logical Exits (Mahdi Fleifel)

Best Australian Short Film

• The Moogai (Jon Bell)

City of Melbourne Award - Best Short Fiction

• Good Night (Anthony Nti)

City of Melbourne Award - Best Short Documentary

• The Weight of All the Beauty (Eeva Mägi)

City of Melbourne Award - Best Short Animation

• Inès (Elodie Dermange)

City of Melbourne Award - Best Cinematography

• Nevena Desivojevic, Cristina Hanes (Outside the Oranges Are Blooming)

Jury Award for Outstanding Performance

• Matilda Enchil (Good Night)

Grand Prix - Feature Film

• Once in Trubchevsk (Larisa Sadilova)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Tattoo (Farhad Delaram)

Best Fiction Short Film

• The Field (Sandhya Suri)

Best Experimental Short Film

• Altiplano (Malena Szlam)

Best Australian Short Film

• The Egg (Jane Cho)

City of Melbourne Award

• Brotherhood (Meryam Joobeur)

People's Choice Award - Best Narrative Feature

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)

People's Choice Award - Best Documentary

• The Australian Dream (Daniel Gordon)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Prisoner of Society (Rati Tsiteladze)

Best Short Film

• Matria (Álvaro Gago Díaz)

Best Fiction Short Film

• Helen (Ji Hyun Kim)

Best Australian Short Film

• All These Creatures (Elise Trenorden, Charles Williams)

Best Documentary

• Momentum Generation (Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist)

City of Melbourne Award

• Three Centimetres (Lara Zeidan)

City of Melbourne Award - Best Short Fiction

• Fauve (Jérémy Comte)

Best Australian Feature Film

• Acute Misfortune (Thomas M. Wright)

People's Choice Award - Best Narrative Feature

• Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)

People's Choice Award - Best Documentary

• Backtrack Boys (Catherine Scott)
• The Dawn Wall (Josh Lowell, Philipp Manderla, Peter Mortimer)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Fry Day (Laura Moss)
• Pria (Yudho Aditya)
• A Gentle Night (Qiu Yang)

Best Short Film

• Fry Day (Laura Moss)

Best Fiction Short Film

• The World in Your Window (Zoe McIntosh, Hamish Mortland)
• A Drowning Man (Mahdi Fleifel)
• Small Town (Diogo Costa Amarante)

Best Animated Short Film

• My Burden (Niki Lindroth von Bahr)
• Drop by Drop (Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires)

Best Documentary Short Film

• The Rabbit Hunt (Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas)

Best Australian Short Film

• Mrs McCutcheon (André Lima, John Sheedy, Jenny Vila)

Best Australian Feature Film

• Ali's Wedding

People's Choice Award - Best Narrative Feature

• Call Me by Your Name
• Ali's Wedding
• The Party
• Brigsby Bear
• Ethel & Ernest
• Lucky
• Loving Vincent
• That's Not Me
• Top of the Lake - China Girl
• A Fantastic Woman

People's Choice Award - Best Documentary

• All for One
• Unrest
• The Song Keepers
• City of Ghosts
• Mountain
• I Am Not Your Negro
• Pecking Order
• Roller Dreams
• Step
• Faces Places

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• Julietta Boscolo (Lets See How Fast This Baby Will Go)

Special Jury Mention - Short Film

• Lost Property Office (Daniel Agdag, Liz Kearney)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Mrs. Metro (Aggelos Papantoniou)
• Problem Play (Matthew Moore)
• The Dam (Brendon McDonall)

Best Short Film

• The Silence (Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi)

Best Fiction Short Film

• In the Year of Monkey (Wregas Bhanuteja)

Best Animated Short Film

• Deer Flower (Kangmin Kim)

Best Documentary Short Film

• Fairy Tales (Rongfei Guo)
• A Man Returned (Mahdi Fleifel)
• The diver (Esteban Arrangoiz)

Best Experimental Short Film

• Nightlife (Cyprien Gaillard, Sprueth Magers, Simone Manwarring)

Best Australian Short Film

• Trespass (Mirrah Foulkes, Alex White)
• Tinseltown (Bethany Bruce, Corrie Chen)

Most Popular Feature Film

• My Life as a Zucchini
• The Handmaiden
• EMO the Musical
• Train to Busan
• Happy Hour
• The Salesman
• A War
• Mahana
• Captain Fantastic
• Toni Erdmann

Best Australian Feature Film

• Girl Asleep

Most Popular Documentary

• Zach's Ceremony
• The Eagle Huntress
• The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe
• Destination Arnold
• Life, Animated
• Reset
• Servant or Slave
• Sonita
• The Music of Strangers
• Tickled

People's Choice Award - Best Narrative Feature

• Elle

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• Luci Schroder (Slapper)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Everything Will Be Okay (Patrick Vollrath)
• Hole (Martin Edralin)
• Under the Sun (Qiu Yang)

Best Short Film

• The Baby (Ali Asgari)
• Ramona (Andrei Cretulescu)

Best Fiction Short Film

• When the Dogs Talked (Elizabeth Povinelli)

Best Animated Short Film

• We Can't Live Without Cosmos (Alexander Boyarsky, Sergey Selyanov, Константин Бронзит)

Best Documentary Short Film

• Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island (Lukas Schrank)

Best Experimental Short Film

• Tehran-Geles (Arash Nassiri, Eric Prigent)

Best Australian Short Film

• Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose (Del Kathryn Barton, Angie Fielder, Brendan Fletcher)

Most Popular Feature Film

• Song of the Sea
• Holding the Man
• In the Crosswind
• Sweet Red Bean Paste
• Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
• Mustang
• Pawno
• A Perfect Day
• Taxi Tehran
• Victoria

Most Popular Documentary

• Graceful Girls
• The Look of Silence
• Putuparri and the Rainmakers
• My Love, Don't Cross That River
• Palio
• Racing Extinction
• She's Beautiful When She's Angry
• Sherpa
• The Ground We Won
• Toto and His Sisters

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• David Easteal (Monaco)

Grand Prix - Best Short Film

• Grey Bull (Eddy Bell, Khoby Rowe)

Best Short Film

• Leidi (Simón Mesa Soto)
• The World (Qiu Yang)

Best Fiction Short Film

• Océan (Emmanuel Laborie)

Best Animated Short Film

• Symphony No. 42 (Réka Bucsi, József Fülöp)

Best Documentary Short Film

• The Last Days of Peter Bergmann (Morgan Bushe, Ciaran Cassidy)
• Xenos (Mahdi Fleifel)

Best Experimental Short Film

• The Dark, Krystle (Michael Robinson)

Best Australian Short Film

• Grey Bull (Eddy Bell, Khoby Rowe)

City of Melbourne Award - Best Short Fiction

• Grey Bull (Eddy Bell, Khoby Rowe)

Most Popular Documentary

• My Name is Salt (Farida Pacha)

People's Choice Award - Best Narrative Feature

• Boyhood
• Obvious Child
• Housebound
• Fantail
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• Mommy
• In Order of Disappearance
• Wages of Fear (za zrestaurovanou verzi)
• Starred Up
• What We Do in the Shadows

People's Choice Award - Best Documentary

• Jalanan
• Keep on Keepin' On
• Virunga
• Dior and I
• Don't Throw Stones
• I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
• Memory of the Camps
• My Name is Salt
• The Case Against 8
• The Salt of the Earth

Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award

• Ben Briand (Blood Pulls a Gun)