2017 SXSW Audience Award Winners

The Audience Award winners for the 2017 South By Southwest Film Festival have been announced. For the Narrative Feature Competition, Jessica M. Thompson’s romantic drama The Light of the Moon was crowned. The well-reviewed character study focuses on a successful New York career woman whose life is dramatically altered; Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) star.

Other Audience Award winners in the differing SXSW sidebars including Edgar Wright’s anticipated upcoming feature Baby Driver, which stars Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars), Lily James (Cinderella) and Jamie Foxx (Ray) and a favorite from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, The Big Sick.

Check out the full list of Audience Award winners below:

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: The Light of the Moon
Director: Jessica M. Thompson

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: Dealt
Director: Luke Korem

HEADLINERS
Audience Award Winner: Baby Driver
Director: Edgar Wright

NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: Mr. Roosevelt
Director: Noël Wells

DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Director: Jennifer M. Kroot

VISIONS
Audience Award Winner: Becoming Bond
Director: Josh Greenbaum

MIDNIGHTERS
Audience Award Winner: 68 Kill
Director: Trent Haaga

EPISODIC
Audience Award Winner: Dear White People
Director: Justin Simien

24 BEATS PER SECOND
Audience Award Winner: May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
Directors: Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio

GLOBAL
Audience Award Winner: Divine Divas
Director: Leandra Leal

FESTIVAL FAVORITES
Audience Award Winner: The Big Sick
Director: Michael Showalter

SXSW Film Design Awards:

EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
Audience Award Winner: Into The Current
Directors: Chris R. Moberg and Jared Young

Virtual Cinema Grand Jury Awards:

VIRTUAL REALITY: ROOM-SCALE
Winner: After Solitary
Directors: Cassandra Herrman, Lauren Mucciolo

360° VIDEO
Winner: Behind the Fence
Directors: Lindsay Branham, Jonathan Olinger

Special Jury Recognition for Innovative Use of Virtual Reality Technology in the Field of Health: Reinvent
Directors: Ian Forester, Sook-lei Liew, PhD

Special Jury Recognition for Technical Excellence: Dreams of “O”
Directors: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël