List of South by Southwest Film Festival award winners

2024 SXSW Film Awards

• Narrative Feature Competition Jury Award – Bob Trevino Likes It, directed by Tracie Laymon
• Narrative Spotlight Audience Award — My Dead Friend Zoe, directed by Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
• Narrative Feature Competition Special Jury Award for Filmmaking – We Were Dangerous, by Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
• Narrative Feature Competition Special Jury Award for Performance – Maria Rodríguez Soto in Mamifera
• Documentary Feature Competition Jury Award — Grand Theft Hamlet, written and directed by Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane
• Documentary Feature Competition Special Jury Award for bravery and empathy — We Can Be Heroes, directed by Carina Mia Wong and Alex Simmons.
• Janet Pierson Champion Award — Kara Durrett, President of Pinky Promise Films
• Kickstarter NextGen Award — Family, written and directed by Benjamin Finkel
• Best of Texas Award — Preconceived, directed by Sabrine Keane and Kate
• XR Experience Competition Award — The Golden Key, directed by Marc Da Costa and Matthew Niederhauser
• XR Experience Competition Special Jury Award — Soul Paint, directed by Sarah Ticho and Niki Smit
• Poster Design Competition Award — 7 Beats per Minute, designed by John Godfrey
• Poster Design Competition Special Jury Award — If I Die in America, designed by Andrei Captan
• Narrative Short Competition Jury Award — Dissolution, written and directed by Anthony Saxe
• Narrative Short Competition Special Jury Award — Trapped, directed Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz
• Documentary Short Competition Jury — Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too, written and directed by Shannet Clemmings and Urša Kastelic
• Documentary Short Competition Special Jury Award — Frank, directed by David Gauvey Herbert
• Animated Shorts Competition Jury Award — Wander to Wonder , directed by Nina Gantz
• Animated Shorts Competition Special Jury Award — Bug Diner, directed by Phoebe Jane Hart
• Midnight Shorts Competition Award — Transylvanie, directed by Rodrigue Huart
• Midnight Shorts Competition Special Jury Award — Meat Puppet, directed by Eros V
• Music Video Competition Special Jury Award for technical wizardry — Joe Nicolosi, for The Burning Hell - 'All I Need.'
• Music Video Competition Award — Célen — “Mom told you so”, written and directed by Cécile Cournelle
• Texas Shorts Competition Award — Jedo's Dead, written and directed by Sara Nimeh
• Texas Shorts Competition Special Jury Award — Hair Care, directed by Fatima Wardy
• Independent TV Pilot Competition Jury Award — Marvin Is Sorry, directed by Clint Pang
• Independent TV Pilot Competition Special Jury Award — Halfrican American, directed by Zeke Nicholson

  2023 SXSW Film Awards

• Headliner Audience Award—Flamin' Hot, directed by Eva Longoria
• Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award—Mustache, directed and written by Imran J. Khan
• Documentary Feature Competition Audience Award—Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life, directed and written by Dan Covert
• Narrative Spotlight Audience Award—The Long Game, directed by Julio Quintana
• Documentary Spotlight Audience Award—The Herricanes, directed by Olivia Kuan
• Visions Audience Award—Tobacco Barns, directed and written by Rocío Mesa
• Midnighter Audience Award—It Lives Inside, directed by Bishal Dutta
• Global Audience Award—Ek Jagah Apni, directed by Ektara Collective
• 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award—Louder Than You Think, directed by Jed I. Rosenberg
• Festival Favorite Audience Award—No Ordinary Campaign, directed by Christopher Burke
• Narrative Short Competition Audience Award—Closing Dynasty, directed and written by Lloyd Lee Choi
• Documentary Short Competition Audience Award—Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, directed by Sean Wang
• Animated Short Competition Audience Award—Sandwich Cat, directed and written by David Fidalgo
• Midnight Short Competition Audience Award—Dead Enders, directed by Fidel Ruiz-Healy, Tyler Walker
• Texas Short Competition Audience Award—Breaking Silence, directed by Amy Bench, Annie Silverstein
• Music Video Competition Audience Award—Drew Ashby - 'HER', directed by Chris Scholar, Bevin Brown
• TV Premiere Audience Award—The Luckiest Guy in the World, directed by Steve James
• TV Spotlight Audience Award—Blindspotting Season 2 Premiere, directed by Rafael Casal
• Independent TV Pilot Competition Audience Award—Notarize Me, directed by Erika Rankin
• XR Experience Competition Audience Award—JFK Memento, directed by Chloé Rochereuil

• Narrative Feature Competition Jury Award—Raging Grace, directed and written by Paris Zarcilla
• Documentary Feature Competition Jury Award—Angel Applicant, directed and written by Ken August Meyer
• Narrative Short Competition Jury Award—It Turns Blue, directed and written by Shadi Karamroudi
• Narrative Short Competition Special Jury Award—Flores del Otro Patio, directed by Jorge Cadena
• Documentary Short Competition Jury Award—Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó, directed by Sean Wang
• Documentary Short Competition Special Jury Award—Suddenly TV, directed by Roopa Gogineni
• Midnight Shorts Competition Jury Award—The Flute, directed by Nick Roney
• Midnight Shorts Competition Special Jury Award—Pennies from Heaven, directed by Sandy Honig
• Animated Short Competition Jury Award—The Debutante, directed and written by Elizabeth Hobbs
• Music Video Competition Jury Award—Amanda Sum, "Different Than Before", directed and written by Mayumi Yoshida
• Music Video Competition Special Jury Award—Residente - 'This is Not America ft. Ibeyi', directed by Grégory Ohrel
• Texas Short Competition Jury Award—Breaking Silence, directed by Amy Bench and Annie Silverstein
• Texas Short Competition Special Jury Award—When You Left Me On That Boulevard, directed and written by Kayla Abuda Galang
• TV Pilot Competition Jury Award—Grown, directed and written by Jocko Sims
• TV Pilot Competition Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance—Josh Fadem in Harbor Island
• Poster Design Competition Jury Award—Eyestring, designed by Javier Devitt
• Poster Design Competition Special Jury Award—Riders on the Storm, designed by Casey Moore
• XR Experience Competition Jury Award—Consensus Gentium, directed and written by Karen Palmer
• XR Experience Competition Special Jury Award—Body of Mine, directed and written by Cameron Kostopoulos
• Janet Pierson Champion Award—Lizzie Shapiro
• Louis Black "Lone Star" Award—The Lady Bird Diaries, directed by Dawn Porter
• Louis Black "Lone Star" Award Special Jury Award—The Herricanes, directed by Olivia Kuan
• Thunderbird Rising Award—Paris Zarcilla for Raging Grace
• Thunderbird Rising Special Award—Brittany Snow for Parachute
• The Hope Award—Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim
• The Hope Special Award—Confessions of a Good Samaritan, directed by Penny Lane
• Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award—Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, directed and written by Tomas Gomez Bustillo
• ZEISS Cinematography Award—Fancy Dance, cinematography by Carolina Costa

  2022 SXSW Film Awards

• Narrative Feature Competition Jury Award—I Love My Dad, directed and written by James Morosini
• Narrative Feature Competition Special Jury Recognition for Extraordinary Cinematic Vision—Cast and Crew of It is In Us All
• Narrative Feature Competition Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Performance—Elizaveta Yankovskaya in Nika
• Documentary Feature Competition Jury Award—Master of Light, directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten
• Documentary Feature Competition Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling—Bad Axe, directed by David Siev
• Documentary Feature Competition Special Jury Recognition for Acting in a Documentary—Steve Glew in Pez Outlaw

• Narrative Short Competition Jury Award—All the Crows in the World, directed and written by Tang Yi
• Narrative Short Competition Special Jury Recognition for Directing and Community Filmmaking—Glitter Ain’t Gold, directed and written by Christian Nolan Jones
• Narrative Short Competition Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Performances—Aphrodite Armstrong, Kyle Riggs in West By God
• Documentary Short Competition Jury Award—Long Line of Ladies, directed by Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome
• Documentary Short Competition Special Jury Recognition for Visual Reflection—not even for a moment do things stand still, directed by Jamie Meltzer
• Midnight Shorts Jury Award—Moshari, directed and written by Nuhash Humayun
• Midnight Shorts Special Jury Recognition for Powerful "Short Trip"—Omi, directed by Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
• Animated Shorts Jury Award—Bestia, directed by Hugo Covarrubias
• Animated Shorts Special Jury Recognition for Unexpected Emotion—Les Larmes de la Seine, directed by Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard
• Animated Shorts Special Jury Recognition for Visceral Storytelling—Something in the Garden, directed and produced by Marcos Sánchez

• Music Video Competition Jury Award—Desirée Dawson - ‘Meet You At the Light’, directed by Alexander Farah
• Music Video Competition Special Jury Recognition for Going the Extra Mile—Myd - ‘Let You Speak’, directed by Dan Carr

• Texas Shorts Jury Award—Folk Frontera, directed by Alejandra Vasquez, Sam Osborn
• Texas Shorts Special Jury Recognition for Vision—Birds, directed by Katherine Propper

• Texas High School Shorts Jury Award—Honeybee, directed by Emilio Vazquez Reyes
• Texas High School Shorts Special Jury Recognition for Artistic Expression—It’s Getting Bad Again, directed by Sarah Reyes

• Episodic Pilot Competition Jury Award—Something Undone, directed by Nicole Dorsey
• Episodic Pilot Competition Special Jury Recognition for Unique Vision in Writing and Directing—My Year of Dicks, showrunner Pamela Ribon

• Poster Design Competition Jury Award—More Than I Remember, designer: Yen Tan, Maya Edelman
• Poster Design Competition Special Jury Recognition—The Sentence of Michael Thompson, designer: Juan Miguel Marin
• Title Design Competition Jury Award—Foundation Title Sequence, designer: Ronnie Koff
• Title Design Competition Special Jury Recognition—The White Lotus Title Sequence, designers: Katrina Crawford, Mark Bashore

• XR Experience Competition Jury Award—On the Morning You Wake , directed by Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart
• XR Experience Competition Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Storytelling—story of a Painting: The Light in the Shadow, directed by Quentin Darras, Gaëlle Mourre

• Fandor New Voices Award—What We Leave Behind, directed by Iliana Sosa
• Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award—Chee$e, directed and written by Damian Marcano
• Adobe Editing Award—Everything Everywhere All at Once, editor: Paul Rogers
• Louis Black "Lone Star" Award—What We Leave Behind, directed by Iliana Sosa
• ZEISS Cinematography Award— Gio Park for A Vanishing Fog
• Mailchimp Support the Shorts Award—The Voice Actress, directed and written by Anna J. Takayama
• 40 Years of Massive Talent Award—Presented to Nicolas Cage