2014 Sydney Film Festival Awards

Huge congratulations to the Dardenne Brothers' Two Days, One Night, winner of the Sydney Film Festival Prize and Festival Director Nashen Moodley for programming another fantastic festival.

To wrap it all up, here are some personal awards I’d like to honour some of the very best with:

Best Feature Film: Mommy

Runner/s Up: What We Do In the Shadows, Tom at the Farm and Snowpiercer

Best Documentary: The Possibilities Are Endless

Runner/s Up: Jodorowsky's Dune and 20,000 Days on Earth

Best Debut Feature: Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Him and Her)

Runner/s Up: Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard, 20,000 Days on Earth

Best Actor: Brendon Gleeson, Calvary

Runner/s Up: Antoine Olivier-Pinon, Mommy and Jack O'Connell, Starred Up

Best Actress: Anne Dorval, Mommy

Runner/s Up: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night and Jessica Chastain, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her.

Best Supporting Actress: Suzanne Clement, Mommy

Runner/s Up: Demet Akbag, Winter Sleep, Viola Davis, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

Best Supporting Actor: Jemaine Clement, What We Do In The Shadows

Runner/s Up: Ethan Hawke, Boyhood, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Tom at the Farm

Best Director: Xavier Dolan, Mommy and Tom at the Farm

Runner/s Up: Joon-Ho Bong, Snowpiercer, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Two Days One Night

Best Screenplay: John Michael McDonagh, Calvary

Runner/s Up: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Winter Sleep and Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

Best Cinematography: Mommy

Runner/s Up: Winter Sleep and Black Coal, Thin Ice

Best Editing: Boyhood

Runner/s Up: 20,000 Days on Earth, Snowpiercer

Best Score: Tom at the Farm

  

Runner/s Up: What We Do In The Shadows, Snowpiercer

Weirdest Film (In a Good Way): Of Horses and Men and Snowpiercer *tie*

Best Scene: 'A vision of the future' in Mommy, 'a colleague full of regret' in Two Days, One Night and 'packing the apartment' in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him.

Final Rankings:

Top 10: Mommy, What We Do in the Shadows, The Possibilities Are Endless, Tom at the Farm, Snowpiercer, Two Days, One Night, Boyhood, Jodorowsky's Dune, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and Winter Sleep.