Richard Linklater‘s 12-year filmmaking experiment Boyhood won the Golden Space Needle Best Picture award along with Best Director and Best Actress at the Seattle International Film Festival. Keep on Keepin’ On, directed by Alan Hicks, won the Golden Space Needle for best documentary. Other notable winners from the sprawling 25-day festival include Dawid Ogrodnik for best actor in Life Feels Good; Fool’s Day for best short film; and other competition awards for 10,000 KM, Marmato and Red Knot. The Golden Space Needle Awards are chosen by festival audiences.
Linklater’s film, which is set for a July 11 release, continued to build momentum for Oscar season, after grabbing the Silver Bear and two other awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and another at South By Southwest. Linklater began shooting Boyhood when its protagonist, played by Ellar Coltrane, was 5 and continued to film off and on for the next dozen years as Coltrane and his character eventually grew into an adult. Patricia Arquette won the Seattle festival’s Golden Space Needle award as best actress, and Linklater won for best director. One other note of minor disclosure: Brian Brooks, who writes Deadline’s weekly coverage on specialty film box office, was on the festival’s documentary jury.
Below are all the awards from the festival:
| GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST FILM Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater (USA 2014)First runner-up: Life Feels Good, directed by Maciej Pieprzyca (Poland 2013)
Second runner-up: How to Train Your Dragon 2, directed by Dean DeBlois (USA 2014) Third runner-up: The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone (USA 2014) Fourth runner-up: Big in Japan, directed by John Jeffcoat (USA 2014) GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST DOCUMENTARYKeep On Keepin’ On, directed by Alan Hicks (USA 2014) First runner-up: Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett (USA 2014)
Second runner-up: I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, directed by Dave LaMattina, Chad Walker (USA 2014) Third runner-up: Strictly Sacred: The Story of Girl Trouble, directed by Isaac Olsen (USA 2014) Fourth runner-up: The Case Against 8, directed by Ben Cotner, Ryan White (USA 2014) GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST DIRECTOR Richard Linklater, Boyhood (USA 2014) First runner-up: Maciej Pieprzyca, Life Feels Good (Poland 2013) Second runner-up: Zaza Urushadze, Tangerines (Estonia/Georgia 2013) Third runner-up: Pawel Pawlikowski, Ida (Poland 2013) Fourth runner-up: Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents (USA 2014) GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST ACTOR Dawid Ogrodnik, Life Feels Good (Poland 2013) First runner-up: Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum (Belgium/France/Spain 2013) Second runner-up: Matt Smith, My Last Year With the Nuns (USA 2014) Third runner-up: Felix Bossuet, Belle & Sebastien (France 2013) Fourth runner-up: Igor Samobor, Class Enemy (Slovenia 2013) GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST ACTRESS Patricia Arquette, Boyhood (USA 2014) First runner-up: Juliette Binoche, 1,000 Times Good Night (Norway 2013) Second runner-up: Agata Kulesza, Ida (Poland 2013) Third runner-up: Jenny Slate, Obvious Child (USA 2014) Fourth runner-up: Jördis Triebel, West (Germany 2013) GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST SHORT FILM Fool’s Day, directed by Cody Blue Snider (USA 2013) First runner-up: The Hero Pose, directed by Mischa Jakupcak (USA 2013) Second runner-up: Strings, directed by Pedro Solis (Spain 2013) Third runner-up: Mr. Invisible, directed by Greg Ash (United Kingdom 2014) Fourth runner-up: Aban + Khorshid, directed by Darwin Serink (USA 2014) LENA SHARPE AWARD FOR PERSISTENCE OF VISION Bound: Africans Versus African Americans, directed by Peres Owino (USA 2014) |
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COMPETITION AWARDS SIFF 2014 BEST NEW DIRECTOR GRAND JURY PRIZE 10,000KM,directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spain/USA 2014) SPECIAL JURY MENTION B For Boy, directed by Chika Anadu (Nigeria 2013) SIFF 2014 BEST DOCUMENTARY GRAND JURY PRIZE Marmato, directed by Mark Grieco (Colombia/USA 2014) SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS Dior and I,directed by Frédéric Tcheng (France 2014) and Garden Lovers, directed by Virpi Suutari (Finland 2014) SIFF 2014 BEST NEW AMERICAN CINEMA GRAND JURY PRIZE Red Knot,directed by Scott Cohen (USA/Argentina/Antarctica 2014) |
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FUTUREWAVE AND YOUTH JURY AWARDS YOUTH JURY AWARD FOR BEST FUTUREWAVE FEATURE GRAND JURY PRIZE Dear White People, directed by Justin Simien (USA) YOUTH JURY AWARD FOR BEST FILMS4FAMILIES FEATURE GRAND JURY PRIZE Belle & Sebastien, directed by Nicolas Vanier (France) SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang, directed by Óskar Santos (Spain) FUTUREWAVE WAVEMAKER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN YOUTH FILMMAKING GRAND JURY PRIZE Malone Lumarda, Black Rock Creek (USA) FUTUREWAVE SHORTS AUDIENCE AWARD While We’re Asleep, directed by Summer Matthews (USA) FUTUREWAVE PRODIGY CAMP SCHOLARSHIP Khidr Joseph, Clapping for the Wrong Reasons (USA) |
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SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS LIVE ACTION GRAND JURY PRIZE Twaaga, directed by Cédric Ido (Burkina Faso/France) SPECIAL JURY MENTION Aban + Khorshid, directed by Darwin Serink (USA) DOCUMENTARY GRAND JURY PRIZE Maikaru, directed by Amanda Harryman (USA) SPECIAL JURY MENTION The Queen (La Reina), directed by Manuel Abramovich (Argentina) ANIMATION GRAND JURY PRIZE Rhino Full Throttle, directed by Erik Schmitt (Germany) |
