Audience Award
Audience Award
All the films presented during the Warsaw International Film Festival take part in the Audience Poll for the best film. Before each screening, members of the audience receive a coupon on which they mark the film as “very good”, “good”, “so-so”, “poor”, „bad”.
The coupons are collected after the screening.
The poll results are announced once all the votes have been counted. The winner is the film given the highest marks by audiences. The winning film receives the Audience Award; this is not a cash prize.
The Audience Award is an important indicator for film distributors. For some years now, films chosen by the festival’s audiences have always found Polish distributors and have been shown at cinemas all over the country.
Winners of the Audience Award:
2009
feature films category – ex aequo:
"The Dark House" / „Dom zły” by Wojciech Smarzowski, Poland
"Welcome" by Philippe Lioret, France
documentary films category:
"Defamation" / „Hashmatsa” by Yoav Shamir, Israel / Denmark / Austria / USA
short films category:
"The Pig" / „Grisen” by Dorte W. Hogh, Denmark
2008
feature films category: „Waltz with Bashir” by Ari Folman, Israel / Germany / France
documentary films category:
„Young@Heart” by Stephen Walker, UK
2007
"The Band's Visit" / "Bikur Ha-Tizmoret" by Eran Kolirin, Israel / France / USA
2006
"The Lives of Others" / „Das Leben der Anderen” by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany
2005
"Adam's Apples" / „Adams æbler” by Anders Thomas, Denmark
2004
„Control” / „Kontroll” by Nimród Antal, Hungary
2003
“Buddy“ by Morten Tyldum, Norway
2002
"Elling" by Petter Naess, Norway
2001
"Italian for Beginners" / „Italiensk for begyndere” by Lone Scherfig, Denmark / Sweden
2000
"Loners" / "Samotari" by David Ondricek, Czech Republic
1999
"Children of Heaven" / „Bacheha-Ye aseman” by Majid Majidi, Iran
1998
"Life Is Beautiful" / "La vita e bella" by Roberto Benigni, Italy
1997
"The Full Monty" by Peter Cattaneo, UK
1996
"Trainspotting" by Danny Boyle, UK
1995
"Before the Rain" by Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia
1994
"Arizona Dream" by Emir Kusturica, France / USA
1993
"Coffee and Cigarettes (Somewhere in California)" by Jim Jarmusch, USA
1992
"Prospero's Books" by Peter Greenaway, UK
1991
„The Double Life of Veronique” / „La double vie de Veronique” by Krzysztof Kieślowski, France / Poland
1990
"Dead Poets Society" by Peter Weir, USA
1989
"Drowning by Numbers" by Peter Greenaway, UK
1988
“Koyaanisqatsi“ by Godfrey Reggio, USA
1987
"Birdy" by Alan Parker, USA
