2026 Awards Winners: •
Pinch - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Sons of Detroit - Best Documentary Feature •
Leads - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Just One Man - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Pinch - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
2025 Awards Winners: •
Midwinter - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Lena and Vladimir - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Papercuts: My Life as an Indie Animator - Best Documentary Feature •
Never Not Yours - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
2024 Awards Winners: •
No Right Way - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
No Right Way - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film • ''L'incidente'' - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Film is Dead. Long Live Film! - Best Documentary Feature •
The Girl in The Yellow Scarf - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Darla in Space - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature •
The Girl in The Yellow Scarf - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2023 Awards Winners: •
In a Good Way - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
In a Good Way - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Derrapada - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
The Bright Path: The Johnny Bright Story - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Not Just A Picky Eater - Best Documentary Feature •
Hundreds of Beavers - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature •
Greener Pasture - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2022 Awards Winners: •
The Mirror Game - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
The Mirror Game - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
The Noise of Engines - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Dear Audrey - Best Documentary Feature •
It Happened One Weekend - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
It Happened One Weekend - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature •
The B1g Story: George Taliaferro - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2021 Awards Winners: •
The Catch - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
The Catch - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Schwarze Milk - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Belly of the Beast - Best Documentary Feature •
Welcome to Monterrey - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Workhorse Queen - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature •
El Rey de la Fiesta - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature
2020 Awards Winners: •
Breaking Fast - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Chasing Unicorns - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Down a Dark Stairwell - Best Documentary Feature •
Sleeze Lake: Vanlife at its Lowest & Best - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
2019 Awards Winners: •
Sumergida - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
Frances Ferguson - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
El Testigo - Best Documentary Feature •
Sumergida - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Qualified - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Good Feels on Wheels - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2018 Awards Winners: •
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
In the Wake of Ire - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Uma Vida Sublime - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
When We Grow Up - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Pieced Together - Audience Award, Best Feature Film •
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win - Best Documentary Feature
2017 Awards Winners: •
Pawo - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
Signature Move - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Pawo - World Cinema, Best Feature Film • ''Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland'' - Best Documentary Feature •
Signature Move - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
King Rat - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2016 Awards Winners: •
West Coast - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
Reparation - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Do Not Resist - Best Documentary Feature •
West Coast - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Under The Bridge: The Criminalization Of Homelessness - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
The Invisible Patients - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2015 Awards Winners: •
Chorus - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
For Grace - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film •
Chorus - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Night Owls - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Morphine Journey of Dreams - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2014 Awards Winners: •
Bluebird - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
Bluebird - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Confusion Through Sand - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
Beyond All Boundaries - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film •
Tarzan & Arab - Matter of Fact, Best Short Film •
You’ll Be A Man - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Grand Canal - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
Beyond All Boundaries - Audience Award, Best Feature Film •
Good Story - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2013 Awards Winners: •
Medora - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film •
Detroit Unleaded - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Mr. Bellpond - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
Medora - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film •
Slomo - Matter of Fact, Best Short Film •
Dream Team 1935 - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
More Than Two Hours - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
Medora - Audience Award, Best Feature Film •
Slomo - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2012 Awards Winners: •
Somebody Up There Likes Me - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Narcocorrido - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
Detropia - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film •
Cutting Loose - Matter of Fact, Best Short Film •
Patang - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
The Maker - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines - Audience Award, Best Feature Film •
Mondays at Racine - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2011 Awards Winners: •
Type A - Best Matter Of Fact, Short Film •
The Green Wave - Best Matter Of Fact, Feature Film •
Direk Ask - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
Small Town Murder Songs - World Cinema, Best Feature Film •
Something Left, Something Taken - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
Natural Selection - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film •
Jess + Moss - The Ima Culturally Adventurous Award •
The Green Wave - Audience Award, Best Feature Film •
The Secret Friend - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2010 Awards Winners: •
A Little Help - American Spectrum, Best Feature •
God of Love - American Spectrum, Best Short •
Ballhawks - Best Documentary Feature •
The Poodle Trainer - Best Documentary Short •
Twisted Roots - World Cinema, Best Feature •
Encuentro - World Cinema, Best Short •
LaPorte, Indiana - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Dynamic Tom - Hoosier Lens, Best Short
2009 Awards Winners: •
Racing Dreams - Audience Award, Best Feature •
Weathered - Audience Award, Best Short Film •
Sita Sings the Blues - American Spectrum, Best Feature •
True Beauty This Night - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
A Ripple of Hope - Hoosier Lens Award, Best Feature •
Chicken Cowboy - Hoosier Lens Award, Best Short •
Frankie 13 vs The World - Best Documentary Short Film •
Best Worst Movie - Best Documentary Feature •
Sinnerman - Black Expressions •
Gone Fishing - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
The Vanished Empire - World Cinema, Best Feature •
The Way We Get By - Eric Parker Social Justice Award •
Lapsus - Excellence in Animation
2008 Awards Winners: •
Mongol - Audience Award, Best Feature •
Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon - Audience Award, Best Documentary •
Spider - Audience Award, Best Short Film •
Pop Skull - American Spectrum, Best Feature •
Bitch - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
Der Ostwind - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Technical achievement to Kohl Gass •
Beyond Belief - Real Visions, Best Feature •
Kids + Money - Real Visions, Best Short Film •
The Life and Times of Robert F. Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Experimental Film to Aaron Valdez •
Cargo 200 - World Cinema, Best Feature •
Ten to Two - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
Burn the Bridges - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Irene Azuela •
Karl Rove, I Love You - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature •
Lapsus - Excellence in Animation Award
2007 Awards Winners: •
Speed Dating - Audience Award, Best Feature (Tie) •
Waitress - Audience Award, Best Feature (Tie) •
In the Shadow of the Moon - Audience Award, Best Documentary •
The Substitute (Il Supplente) - Audience Award, Best Short Film •
Adrift in Manhattan - American Spectrum, Best Feature •
Pop Foul - American Spectrum, Best Short Film •
Disappearances - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Cinematography •
Nevel Is the Devil - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Comedy •
Kidney Thieves - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Comedy •
Rain in a Dry Land - Real Visions, Best Feature • ''Angel's Fire'' - Real Visions, Best Short Film •
Heavy Metal Jr. - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Direction • ''
McLaren's Negatives'' - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Direction to Marie-Josee Sainte-Pierre •
Fraulein - World Cinema, Best Feature •
Eramos Pocos - World Cinema, Best Short Film •
Thicker Than Water - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance •
Milk and Opium - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Score •
Marrying God - Hoosier Lens Award •
Everything Will be OK - Excellence in Animation •
First on the Moon - The
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction Filmmaking
2006 Awards Winners: •
A Place Called Home: An Adoption Story - Audience Award, Best Feature •
Sugar Mountain - Audience Award, Best Short Film •
El Inmigrante - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature •
Binta and the Great Idea - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film • ''
Antonio's Breakfast'' - Grand Jury Prize, Best European Short Film •
Knocking - Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction Film •
Over the Hedge - Audience Award, Best Family Film •
Kinky Boots - Audience Award, Best Comedy •
A Place Called Home: An Adoption Story - Hoosier Lens Award for Best Indiana Film •
Before I Go - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Heidy Forster and Horst Sachtleben •
Life in Transition - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Animation •
Dirty Mary - Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Comedy to Daniele Ferraro for Writing, Producing, and Acting •
Monobloc - Special Jury Prize for Direction to Luis Ortega •
Desire - Special Jury Prize - Honorable Mention for Documentary Filmmaking to Julie Gustafson & the New Orleans Teenage Girls Documentary Project •
Binta and the Great Idea - Markey's Humanitarian Award •
Apparition of the Eternal Church - Best North American Independent Feature Film
2005 Awards Winners: •
Murderball - Audience Award, Best Feature •
West Bank Story - Audience Award, Best Short Film •
Murderball - Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction Film •
NOVEM - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature •
Solo un Cargador - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film (Tie) •
Tama Tu - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film (Tie) •
The Innocent - Grand Jury Prize, Best Non-Fiction Film •
Pearl Diver - Grand Jury Prize, Hoosier Lens Award for Best Indiana Film •
Tropical Malady - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Direction to
Apichatpong Weerasethakul •
NOVEM - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to the entire cast •
Brothers - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to
Connie Nielsen,
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Ulrich Thomsen •
9 - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Animation
2004 Awards Winners: •
The Story of the Weeping Camel - Audience Award, Best Feature •
The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja - Audience Award, Best Short Film (Tie) •
Hairless - Audience Award, Best Short Film (Tie) •
The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film •
Between the White Lines - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature Film •
Dogville - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to the entire cast •
A Slipping Down Life - Outstanding Performance to Lily Taylor & Sara Rue •
Disconcerting Symphony - Outstanding Performance to the entire cast •
Stuff That Bear! - Outstanding Cinematography to Oleg Mutu •
Everyone and Their Mother Wants to Write and Direct - Outstanding Writing ==See also==