Sydney Film Festival Public Poll Results

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this Sydney Film Festival poll. I really appreciate the time it took to consider each of the films you saw. No doubt some of them are still stewing. In the end I had about 40 people send me their ratings (I lost track after a little while), and we covered well over 100 films. Most of the contributors saw more than 15 films (and many in the vicinity of 25/30), so this turned out to be worth all the effort.

It was interesting to see how the Official Competition were rated, and whether the Sydney Film Prize and Audience Award winners fared as well here. Some films were very divisive (The Rover and Snowpiercer covered almost every grade), others were almost unanimously praised or panned.  

There were quite a lot of films that received a two or less votes, so I am going to list them here (with the average rating) and not include them in the final rankings: All This Mayhem (4.5), Beijing Ants (2.5), Black Panther Woman (5), Concerning Violence (3.25), Dancing in the Room (2), Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead (3), Demonstration (3), Faith Connections (3.5), Goal of the Dead (2.75), If You Don't, I Will (3.25), Ilo Ilo (3.75), Iranian (4), Jimi: All Is By My Side (2.5), Keep on Keepin' On (3.5), Love Eternal (3), Love Marriage in Kabul (4), Mothers (2.25), Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me (3.5), Once My Mother (4), Stop The Pounding Heart (3.5), Tender (3.5), The Battered Bastards of Baseball (3.5), The Gold Spinners (3), The Little Death (1), The Referee (3.25), The Second Game (3.5), Ukraine is not a Brothel (3.25), When Animals Dream (3.25), Till Madness Do Us Part (3.5), Up in the Wind (2), The Salt of the Earth (4.5) and The Fake (2).

And here are this year's Retrospectives (Robert Altman, Studio Ghibli and James Benning) and the Classics Restored, which also received limited votes: American Dreams (Lost and Found) (4.5), Deseret (3.88), Grave of the Fireflies (2.75), Hiroshima Mon Amour (5), M*A*S*H (5), McCabe and Mrs Miller (4.75), My Neighbour Totoro (4.5), Nashville (5), Nightfall (4.33), Rebel Without A Cause (4.5), That Cold Day in the Park (3.25), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (3.75) and Wedding, A (4).

Finally, here is a tally of the films with three or more votes from the contributors from the Official Competition, the Documentary Australia Foundation Award, Special Presentations at the State, Features, The Box Set, International Documentaries, Sounds On Screen, China: Rebels Ghosts and Romantics and the Freak Me Out sections of the program.

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Title (A-Z)	Votes	Average (/5)
20, 000 Days On Earth	15	3.57
Abuse of Weakness	7	2.88
Appropriate Behaviour	13	3.58
At Berkeley	6	3.42
Babylon	4	3.13
Begin Again	6	3.50
Black Coal, Thin Ice	17	3.32
Born To Fly	5	3.10
Boyhood	28	4.18
Calvary	16	3.93
Captive, The	4	2.88
Case Against 8, The	6	3.92
Cold in July	12	2.25
Difret	4	3.75
Dinosaur 13	5	3.20
Dior and I	6	3.42
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her, The	15	3.70
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him, The	11	3.45
Double Play: Richard Linklater and James Benning	8	3.19
E-Team	3	2.33
Eastern Boys	6	3.83
Fell	9	3.61
Fish and Cat	19	3.68
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales	3	2.83
Frank	19	3.24
Gabrielle	8	3.44
God Help The Girl	4	3.25
Great Museum, The	5	3.30
Happy Christmas	15	3.50
How To Train Your Dragon 2	7	3.50
Human Capital	6	2.83
In Order of Disappearance	10	3.35
Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?	9	2.94
Jodorowsky's Dune	20	3.93
Joe	15	3.43
Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, The	11	2.36
Killers	9	3.00
Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, The	3	4.33
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter	23	3.15
Last Impresario, The	4	3.38
Life Itself	17	3.85
Locke	27	3.57
Love is Strange	14	2.82
Lunchbox, The	5	3.20
Manakamana	8	3.81
Miss Violence	9	2.28
Mommy	18	4.16
Mystery of Happiness, The	3	2.83
National Gallery	11	3.77
Ne me quitte pas	4	1.88
Next Goal Wins	3	3.83
Night Moves	11	3.50
Of Horses and Men	7	3.64
Omar	5	3.80
Overnighters, The	4	3.88
Palo Alto	12	3.00
Particle Fever	6	3.83
Possibilities Are Endless, The	6	4.25
Praia Do Futuro	5	2.30
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets	3	4.00
Reunion, The	3	3.50
Rock the Casbah	7	2.29
Rover, The	25	3.52
Ruin	10	2.55
School of Babel	3	3.16
Sepideh: Reaching For The Stars	3	3.00
Siddarth	3	3.83
Skeleton Twins, The	12	3.46
Snowpiercer	27	3.33
Something Must Break	7	2.64
Stage Fright	3	1.83
Starred Up	8	3.81
Story of Children and Film, The	3	3.50
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon	3	3.50
Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The	9	3.28
Tim's Vermeer	11	3.55
Timbuktu	6	3.92
Tom at the Farm	16	4.15
Tomako in Moratorium	4	2.75
Touch	3	2.83
Two Days One Night	24	3.92
Two Faces of January, The	9	3.39
Unknown Known, The	6	3.42
Watermark	4	3.25
We Are The Best!	8	3.88
What We Do In The Shadows	14	3.93
Willow Creek	6	3.50
Winter Sleep	14	3.79
Wish I Was Here	6	3.67
Words and Pictures	5	2.20
You're Sleeping Nicole	6	3.67
Young and Prodigious T. S Spivet, The	5	3.70
KEY
Official Competition
10+ Ratings >3.50 Ave.
Grade >3.50 Ave.
10+ Ratings >4.00 Ave.
Grade >4.00 Ave.