Despite the cancelation of South By Southwest, the film festival announced the 2020 award winners.
This year’s program would have had 135 feature films, including 99 world premieres and 75 films from first-time filmmakers. It also had scheduled 119 short films; 12 episodic premieres, seven special events, 14 episodic pilots, 30 title design entries, and 27 virtual cinema projects.
See the complete winners list below:
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Winner: Shithouse
Director: Cooper Raiff
Special Jury Recognition for Directing: Topside
Directors: Celine Held, Logan George
Special Jury Recognition for Acting: Really Love
Director: Angel Kristi Williams
Actors: Kofi Siriboe, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Winner: An Elephant in the Room
Director: Katrine Philp
Special Jury Recognition for Achievement in Documentary Storytelling : The Donut King
Director: Alice Gu
Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Voice: Finding Yingying
Director: Jiayan & Shi
Short Film Grand Jury Awards
Winner: White Eye
Director: Tomer Shushan
Special Jury Recognition for Acting: Dirty
Director: Matthew Puccini
Actors: Morgan Sullivan, Manny Dunn
Special Jury Recognition: Darling
Director: Saim Sadiq
Special Jury Recognition: Single
Director: Ashley Eakin
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Winner: No Crying at the Dinner Table
Director: Carol Nguyen
Special Jury Recognition: Mizuko
Directors: Katelyn Rebelo, Kira Dane
Special Jury Recognition: Día de la Madre
Directors: Ashley Brandon, Dennis Höhne
MIDNIGHT SHORTS
Winner: Regret
Director: Santiago Menghini
Special Jury Recognition: Laura Hasn’t Slept
Director: Parker Finn
Special Jury Recognition for Creature Design: Stucco
Director: Janina Gavankar, Russo Schelling
ANIMATED SHORTS
Winner: Symbiosis
Director: Director: Nadja Andrasev
Special Jury Recognition: No, I Don’t Want to Dance!
Director: Andrea Vinciguerra
Special Jury Recognition: The Shawl
Director: Sara Kiener
MUSIC VIDEOS
Winner: 070 Shake – ‘Nice to Have’
Director: Noah Lee
Special Jury Recognition for Animation: Mitski – ‘A Pearl’
Director: Saad Moosajee, Art Camp
Special Jury Recognition for Direction: The Lumineers – ‘Gloria’
Director: Kevin Phillips
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TEXAS SHORTS
Winner: Just Hold On
Director: Sam Davis, Rayka Zehtabchi
Special Jury Recognition: Coup d’etat Math
Director: Sai Selvarajan
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORTS
Winner: Wish Upon a Snowman
Director: Miu Nakata
Special Jury Recognition: Narrative
Winner: Ultimatum
Director: Kai Hashimoto
Special Jury Recognition: Documentary
Winner: Unveiled
Director: Sofia Bajwa
Special Jury Recognition: Animation
Winner: The Orchard
Director: Zeke French
EPISODIC PILOT COMPETITION
Winner: Embrace
Director: Jessica Sanders
Special Jury Recognition for Drama: Chemo Brain
Director: Kristian Håskjold
Special Jury Recognition for Comedy: Lusty Crest
Director: Kati Skelton
SXSW Film Design Awards
EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN
Winner: Laura Hasn’t Slept
Designer: Olivier Courbet
Special Jury Recognition: The Donut King
Designer: Andrew Hem & Charlie Le
EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
Winner: See
Designer: Karin Fong
Special Jury Recognition: Why We Hate
Designers: Allison Brownmoore, Anthony Brownmoore
SXSW Special Awards
Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award
Presented to: In and of Itself
Director: Frank Oz
Adobe Editing Award
Presented to: You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Editor: Paul Rogers and Additional Editing By David Darg
Final Draft Screenwriters Award
Presented to: Best Summer Ever
Screenwriters: Michael Parks Randa, Will Halby, Terra Mackintosh, Andrew Pilkington, Lauren
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Louis Black “Lone Star” Award
Winner: Miss Juneteenth
Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples
Special Jury Recognition for Acting:
Winner: Rob Morgan from Bull
Director: Annie Silverstein
Special Jury Recognition for Documentary:
Winner: Boys State
Directors: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Zeiss Cinematography Award
Winner: Echoes of the Invisible
Director: Steve Elkins
