Feature Film Jury Awards
NARRATIVE FEATURE
- Winner: Natural Selection
- Director: Robbie Pickering
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Winner: Natural Selection
- Director: Robbie Pickering
Breakthrough Performances:
- Evan Ross – 96 Minutes
- Rachael Harris – Natural Selection
- Matt O’Leary – Natural Selection
- Best Screenplay: Natural Selection
Writer: Robbie Pickering
- Best Editing: Natural Selection
Editor: Michelle Tesoro
- Best Cinematography: A Year in Mooring
Director of Photography: Elliot Davis
Best Score/Music: Natural Selection
Music by: iZLER, Curt Schneider
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Winner: Dragonslayer
- Director: Tristan Patterson
- Best Editing: Where Soldiers Come From
- Editors: Kyle Henry & Heather Courtney
- Best Cinematography: Dragonslayer
- Director of Photography: Eric Koretz
- Best Score/Music: The City Dark
Music by: The Fishermen Three, Ben Fries
Feature Film Audience Awards
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- Winner: Kumaré
- Director: Vikram Gandhi
SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES
- Winner: Becoming Santa
- Director: Jeff Myers
EMERGING VISIONS
- Winner: Weekend
- Director: Andrew Haigh
*Audience Awards for 24 Beats Per Second, Lone Star States, and Midnighters sections will be announced on Saturday, March 19, 2011.
Short Film Jury Awards
NARRATIVE SHORTS
- Winner: Pioneer
- Director: David Lowery
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
- Winner: Mothersbane
- Director: Jason Jakaitis
ANIMATED SHORTS
- Winner: THE WONDER HOSPITAL
- Director: Beomsik Shimbe Shim
MUSIC VIDEOS
- Winner: Hollerado, “Americanarama”
- Director: Greg Jardin
TEXAS SHORTS
- Winner: 8
- Director: Julie Gould & Daniel Laabs
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- Winner: ( __ )
- Director: Chad Werner
SXSW Film Design Awards
EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN
- Winner: Silver Bullets
- Designer: Yann Legendre
- Audience Award Winner: Green
- Designer: Adrian Kolarczyk
EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
- Winner: Blue Valentine
- Designer: Jim Helton
- Audience Award Winner: Blue Valentine
- Designer: Jim Helton
SXSW Special Awards
SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARD
- Winner: The Eagleman Stag
- Director: Mikey Please
SXSW CHICKEN & EGG EMERGENT NARRATIVE WOMAN DIRECTOR AWARD
- Winner: Sophia Takal for Green
LOUIS BLACK / LONE STAR AWARD
- Winner: INCENDIARY: The Willingham Case
- Directors: Steve Mims & Joe Bailey, Jr.
KAREN SCHMEER FILM EDITING FELLOWSHIP
- Presented to: Erin Casper
The 2011 SXSW Film Festival Juries consisted of:
- Narrative Feature Competition: Roger Ebert, Logan Hill, Michelle Satter
- Documentary Feature Competition: Mark Olsen, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Sky Sitney
- Narrative Shorts: Jon Korn, Jay Van Hoy, Rose Vincelli
- Documentary Shorts: Brad Beesley, Jay Duplass, Amanda Micheli
- Animated Shorts: Austin Kleon, Bill Plympton, Alison Willmore
- Music Videos: Tom Blankenship, John Kunz, Ron Mann
- Texas Shorts: Victor Diaz, Megan Gilbride, Adam Roffman
- Texas High School Shorts: Cole Dabney, Marcy Garriott, Bart Weiss
- Title Design: Ian Albinson, Jenny Lee, Tommy Pallota, Ron Pippin, Kurt Volk
- Poster Design: Craig Crutchfield, Craig Denham, Marc English, Tim League, Charlie Loft, Danny Parker
- Louis Black / Lone Star: Marjorie Baumgarten, Elvis Mitchell, Robert Wilonsky
