Fantastic Fest Winners

AUDIENCE AWARD (Presented by Maxwell Locke & Ritter)

THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA (director Isao Takahata) 

"NEXT WAVE" SPOTLIGHT COMPETITION PRESENTED BY DELL PRECISION

Best Picture: IT FOLLOWS (director David Robert Mitchell)  

Best Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky (THE TRIBE) 

Best Screenplay: David Robert Mitchell (IT FOLLOWS) 

Best Actor: Lou Taylor Pucci (SPRING) 

Best Actress: Amy Everson (FELT) 

FANTASTIC FEATURES

Best Picture: ALLELUIA (director Fabrice Du Welz) 

Best Director: Fabrice Du Welz (ALLELUIA) 

Best Screenplay: Tetsuya Nakashima, Miako Tadano and Nobuhiro Monma (THE WORLD OF KANAKO) 

Best Actor: Laurent Lucas (ALLELUIA) 

Best Actress: Lola Dueñas (ALLELUIA) 

HORROR FEATURES

Best Picture: THE  BABADOOK (directed Jennifer Kent) 

Best Screenplay: Jennifer Kent (THE  BABADOOK) 

Best Director: Martín De Salvo (DARKNESS BY DAY) 

Best Actor: Noah Wiseman (THE BABADOOK)   

Best Actress: Essie Davis (THE  BABADOOK) 

GUTBUSTER COMEDY FEATURES

Best Picture: DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS DEAD  (director by Tommy Wirkola) 

Best Director: Hans Petter Moland (IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE) 

Best Screenplay: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen and Tommy Wirkola (DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS DEAD) 

Best Actor: Pål Sverre Hagen (IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE) 

Best Actress: Sylvia Hoeks (BROS BEFORE HOS) 

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Best Picture: KUNG FU ELLIOT (director Jaret Belliveau) 

Best Director: Tim Grabham, Jasper Sharp (THE CREEPING GARDEN) 

SHORT FUSE: HORROR SHORTS

Winner: THE STOMACH directed by Ben Steiner

Runner-up: INVADERS  directed by Jason Kupfer 

FANTASTIC SHORTS

Winner: THE VOICE THIEF directed by Adan Jodorowsky

Runner-up: MY FATHER IS A BIRD (director Boaz Debby) and SOLITUDO (director Alice Lowe) 

DRAWN AND QUARTERED: ANIMATED SHORTS

Winner: THE CHAPERONE (director Fraser Munden)

Runner-up: DAY 40 (director Sol Friedman) 

FANTASTIC ARCADE

Best in Show: BANANA CHALICE (developed by Kyle Reimergartin) 

MERCADO FANTASTICO

Gold Prize: HAVANA VAMPIRE TERRITORY (director Carlos Lechuga) and THE TURNED (director Andrés Rosende) 

Silver Prize: FIERCE (director Francisco Lorite) 
Bronze Prize: HURT (director Pablo Proenza) 
Special Jury Mention for "Keeping the Spirit of the 80's Alive": THE SHADOWDWELLERS (producer Erick Salomon) 
Jury Award for Work in Progress, and Chemistry Award: FRONDOSO EDEN DEL CORAZON (director Juan Manuel Fodde) 
Morbido/Latam Consultation Award: EAT ME (director David Michán) 
Invited to Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires for Blood Window / Beyond the Window Coproduction Meetings: HAVANA VAMPIRE TERRITORY (director Carlos Lechuga) and THE SHORE (director Juan Felipe Orozco) 
Invited to Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires for Blood Window / Bloody Work in Progress: SCHERZO DIABOLICO (director Adrián García Bogliano) 

KING OF SHAKEYFACE
Andrew Todd

A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to legendary film critic Leonard Maltin by Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest co-founder Tim League and his longtime friend Louis Black, co-founder of the Austin Chronicle and SXSW.