BOYHOOD WINS BIG AT SEATTLE FEST

From almost 90,000 submitted votes, five audience awards for feature-length films were distributed between three films at the Seattle International Film Festival earlier this week. Richard Linklater's highly-hyped Boyhood took home three awards; the expansive drama opens in the British Isles and in North America alike on the 11th of July - a month from today. The most-popular female-directed film wins the Lena Sharpe Award, while jury awards, including a FIPRESCI prize, were considerably more broad in their outlook than the audience ones.

Jury Awards

SIFF 2014 Best Documentary

Grand Jury Prize

Marmato (Mark Grieco)

Special Jury Mention

Dior and I (Frederic Tcheng)

Garden Lovers (Virpi Suutari)

SIFF 2014 Best New Director

Grand Jury Prize

Carlos Marques-Marcet (10,000KM)

Special Jury Mention

B for Boy (Chika Anadu)

FIPRESCI Prize - SIFF 2014 Best New American Cinema

Grand Jury Prize

Red Knot (Scott Cohen)

Youth Jury Award for Best Futurewave Feature

Grand Jury Prize

Dear White People (Justin Simien)

Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature

Grand Jury Prize

Belle & Sebastien (Nicolas Vanier)

Special Jury Mention

Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (Oskar Santos)

Futurewave Wavemaker Award for Excellence in Youth Filmmaking

Grand Jury Prize

Black Rock Creek (Malone Lumarda)

Futurewave Prodigy Camp Scholarship

Khidr Joseph (Clapping for the Wrong Reasons)

Audience Awards

Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film

1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
2. Life Feels Good (Maciej Pieprzyca)
3. How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois)
4. The Fault in Our Stars (Josh Boone)
5. Big in Japan (John Jeffcoat)

Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director

1. Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
2. Maciej Pieprzyca (Life Feels Good)
3. Zaza Urushadze (Tangerines)
4. Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida)
5. Sara Colangelo (Little Accidents)

Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actor

1. Dawid Ogrodnik (Life Feels Good)
2. Guillaume Gallienne (Me, Myself and Mum)
3. Matt Smith (My Last Year with the Nuns)
4. Felix Bossuet (Belle & Sebastien)
5. Igor Samobor (Class Enemy)

Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress

1. Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
2. Juliette Binoche (A Thousand Times Good Night)
3. Agata Kuleza (Ida)
4. Jenny Slate (Obvious Child)
5. Jordis Triebel (West)

Golden Space Needle Award for Best Documentary

1. Keep On Keepin' On (Alan Hicks)
2. Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory (Michael Rossato-Bennett)
3. I Am Big Bird: The Carroll Spinney Story (Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker)
4. Strictly Sacred: The Story of Girl Trouble (Isaac Olsen)
5. The Case Against 8 (Ben Cotner and Ryan White)

Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision

Bound: Africans Versus African Americans (Peres Owino)

Golden Space Needle Award for Best Short Film

1. Fool's Day (Cody Blue Snider)
2. The Hero Pose (Mischak Jakupcak)
3. Strings (Pedro Solis)
4. Mr. Invisible (Greg Ash)
5. Adam + Khorshid (Darwin Serink)

Futurewave Shorts Audience Award

While We're Asleep (Summer Matthews)