2018 SXSW Film Festival Announces Audience Awards Winners

The SXSW Film Festival announced the Audience Awards winners from the Narrative Feature Competition, Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Midnighters, Episodic, 24 Beats Per Second, Global, Festival Favorites, and Design Award categories. Headliners will be announced on Monday, March 19. Audience Awards results for all categories were certified by the accounting firm of Maxwell Locke & Ritter. The SXSW Film Awards are presented by FilmStruck.

The Audience Awards follow the previously announced 2018 Jury Awards, which included Grand Jury Winners Thunder Road for Narrative Feature and People’s Republic of Desire for Documentary Feature.

2018 SXSW Film Festival Audience Awards Winners:

Narrative Feature Competition: First Match

Director: Olivia Newman

Documentary Feature Competition: TransMilitary

Directors: Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson

Narrative Spotlight: All Square

Director: John Hyams

Documentary Spotlight: The Dawn Wall

Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer

Visions: Profile

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Midnighters: Upgrade

Director: Leigh Whannell

Episodic: Vida

Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, So Yong Kim

24 Beats Per Second: Ruben Blades Is Not My Name

Director: Abner Benaim

Global: Virus Tropical

Director: Santiago Caicedo

Festival Favorite: Science Fair

Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster

Excellence in Title Design: #19 – Offf Barcelona 2017

Directors: Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallee 

Documentary Shorts Award winners for This One’s For The Ladies Gene Graham and Paul Rowley, Documentary Feature Award winner for Garry Winograng: All Things are Photographable Sasha Waters Freyer, Documentary Feature Award winner for People’s Republic of Desire Hao Wu, Violet Lucca, and April Wolfe attends the SXSW Film Awards Show 2018. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images