Narrative Competition Sponsored by Bridgestone

Bridgestone Grand Jury Prize: "Weekend" (Andrew Haigh / UK)

Bridgestone Competition Honorable Mention: "Last Summer of La Boyita" (Julia Solomonoff/Argentina)

Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble: "Kinyarwanda" (Alrick Brown / Rwanda, USA)

Special Jury Prize for Exception Courage: "Dog Sweat" (Hossein Keshavarz / Iran)

Best Actor: Tom Cullen, "Weekend"

Best Actress: Guadalupe Alonso, "Last Summer of La Boyita"

Naxos Award for Best Film Music: Bootstraps, "Take Me Home"

Southwest Airlines Audience Award: "The First Grader" (Justin Chadwick / UK, Kenya)

Graveyard Shift Audience Award: "The Troll Hunter" (André Øvredal / Norway)

Documentary Competition Sponsored by Documentary Channel

Documentary Channel Grand Jury Prize: "If A Tree Falls" (Marshall Curry / USA)

Documentary Channel Honorable Mention: "Fambul Tok" (Sara Terry / Sierra Leone, USA)

Special Jury Prize for Achievement Artistic Vision: "A Matter of Taste" (Sally Rowe / USA)

Documentary Channel Audience Award: (tie) "Wish Me Away" (Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf / USA); "Most Valuable Players" (Matthew D. Kallis / USA)

Gibson Music Films/Music City Competition Sponsored by Gibson and Lightning 100

Gibson Impact of Music Award: "Ain’t In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm," (Jacob Hatley / USA)

Honorable Mention: "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone" (Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler / USA)

Special Jury Prize for Most Original Vision: "Broke*" (Will Gray / USA)

New Directors Competition

Grand Jury Prize: "Inuk" (Mike Magidson, Greenland/France)

Best Actor: Parker Croft, "Falling Overnight"

Best Actress: Kristýna Nováková, "Twosome"

Honorable Mention: "Twosome (Dvojka)" (Jaroslav Fuit / Czech Republic)

Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance by an Actor: Gaba Petersen, "Inuk"

Short Film Competition

Best Narrative Short (Academy Qualifier): "Mary Last Seen" (Sean Durkin / USA)

Honorable Mention: "Darryn Exists" (Jamie Lawrence / New Zealand)

Best Animated Short (Academy Qualifier): "Something Left, Something Taken" (Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata / USA)

Honorable Mention: "Mobile" (Verena Fels / Germany)

Special Jury Prize for Imaginative Storytelling: "The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore" (Brandon Oldenburg, William Joyce / USA)

Best Documentary Short: "Bye Bye Now!" (Aideen O’Sullivan / Ireland)

Honorable Mention: "Mr. Happy Man" (Matt Morris / USA)

Special Jury Prize for Social Awareness: "Save the Farm" (Michael Kuehnert / USA)

Best Experimental Short: "All Flowers in Time" (Jonathan Caouette / Canada)

Honorable Mention: "Who By Fire" (Aleisa Moussa / USA)

Honorable Mention II: "just a meaning you attribute to it" (Bernadette Anzengruber / Austria)

Vanderbilt Golden Opportunity Award: "Deeper Than Yesterday" (Ariel Kleiman / Australia)

Runner-Up: "On Leave" (Asat Saban / Isreal)

Watkins Young Filmmaker Award: Finding My Way (Emma Strebel / USA)

Additional Awards

Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Feature Film: "Jess+Moss" (Clay Jeter / USA)

Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Feature Film: "Swing" (Matt Schosser & Shane Bartlett / USA)

Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Documentary Film: "Nashville Rises" (Zac Adams / USA)

Black Filmmaker Award: "Kinyarwanda" (Alrick Brown / USA, Rwanda)

NAHCC Hispanic Filmmaker Award: “My Life with Carlos” (Germán Berger-Hertz / Chile)

NAHCC Hispanic Filmmaker Award Honorable Mention: “Musica Campesina” (Alberto Fuguet / Chile, USA)

NPT Human Spirit Award: "Fambul Tok" (Sara Terry / Sierra Leone, USA)

Women in Film & TV Prize for Best Film by A Woman Director: "The Last Summer of La Boyita" (Julia Solomonoff / Argentina)

Film Musicians Secondary Market Fund Prize for Best Director / Composer Collaboration: "Falling Overnight"

NaFF Career Achievement Award: Kris Kristofferson

Coleman Sinking Creek Award: Monte Hellman

Mike Curb Career Achievement for Film Music: Gustavo Santaolalla

Governor's Award: Clay Jeter

Louise LeQuire Award for Screenwriting: John Patrick Shanley