Since 1984, our audience has been responsible for selecting the Audience Awards for Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature — as well as audience prizes for short films and episodics at different points in the Festival history. Audiences will be able to vote for their favorite films during the Festival.

2023 Feature: The Origin of Evil (L’origine du mal)
           Documentary: Who I Am Not

2022 Feature: Vulveeta
           Documentary: Uýra: The Rising Forest (Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta)

2021 Feature: Lola (Lola vers la mer)
           Documentary: Invisible
           Short: Sheer Qorma

2020 Feature: Rūrangi
           Documentary: Cured
           Short: These Thems: Episode 1

2019 Feature: Song Lang
           Documentary: Changing the Game
           Episodic: A Luv Tale: The Series
           Short: Bubble

2018 Feature: For Izzy
           Documentary: The Rest I Make Up
           Episodic: Giving Me Life (In the Land of the Deadass)
           Short: Masks

2017 Feature: God’s Own Country
           Documentary: Chavela
           Short: Curmudgeons

2016 Feature: Pushing Dead
           Documentary: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
           Short: Vámonos

2015 Feature: Margarita, with a Straw
           Documentary: Game Face
           Short: Adrift in Sunset

2014 Feature: The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho)
           Documentary: Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank
           Short: Black Is Blue

2013 Feature: Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras)
           Documentary: The New Black
           Short: dik

2012 Feature: Cloudburst
           Documentary: Call Me Kuchu
           Short: Tsuyako

2011 Feature: Tomboy
           Documentary: Gen Silent
           Short: Baldguy

2010 Feature: The String (Le fil)
           Documentary: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
           Short: Remember Me in Red

2009 Feature: Patrik, Age 1.5 (Patrik 1,5)
           Documentary: Training Rules
           Short: Lucha

2008 Feature: XXY
           Documentary: Pageant
           Short: No Bikini

2007 Feature: Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)
           Documentary: Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey and The Polymath
           Short: Pariah

2006 Feature: The Gymnast
           Documentary: The Believers
           Short: Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

2005 Feature: Transamerica
           Documentary: Blood, Sweat, and Glitter
           Short: In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Families

2004 Feature: Brother to Brother
           Documentary: Drag Kings on Tour
           Short: Mind if I Call You Sir?

2003 Feature: Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (Ja zuster, nee zuster)
           Documentary: Brother Outsider
           Short: Butch Mystique

2002 Feature: The Business of Fancydancing
           Documentary: Radical Harmonies
           Short: The Parlor

2001 Feature: The Iron Ladies (Satree lek)
           Documentary: Scout’s Honor
           Short: No Dumb Questions

2000 Feature: Big Eden
           Documentary: Paragraph 175
           Short: Crush

1999 Feature: Chutney Popcorn
           Documentary: Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
           Short: The Boy Next Door

1998 Feature: Edge of Seventeen
           Documentary: Dear Jesse
           Short: Sleep Come Free Me
           Animation: Dirty Baby Does Fire Island

1997 Feature: Lilies (Lilies – Les feluettes)
           Documentary: Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End
           Short: Twisted Sheets

1996 Feature: Stonewall
           Documentary: It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
           Short: Margaret Star: A Fall From Grace

1995 Features: Costa Brava and Parallel Sons
           Documentary: Fiction and Other Truths: A Documentary About Jane Rule
           Shorts: Party Favor and Trevor
           Video: Coming Out of the Iron Closet

1994 Features: Only the Brave and World and Time Enough
           Documentary: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
           Shorts: Carmelita Tropicana and A Friend of Dorothy
           Video: Sis: The Perry Watkins Story

1993 Feature: Grief
           Documentary: One Nation Under God
           Shorts: Intrepidissima and Deaf Heaven and Chicks in White Satin
           Video: Homoteens

1992 Feature: Twin Bracelets (Shuang zhuo)
           Documentary: Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
           Shorts: A Certain Grace and The Dead Boys’ Club
           Video: (In)Visible Women

1991 Feature: Together Alone
           Documentary: Thank You and Goodnight
           Short: Give AIDS the Freeze
           Video: American Fabulous

1990 Feature: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
           Documentary: Paris Is Burning
           Short: Flames of Passion
           Video: Tongues Untied

1989 Feature: The Heart Exposed (Le cœur découvert)
           Documentary: Out in Suburbia
           Short: Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
           Video: Out on Four

1988 Feature: Friends Forever (Venner for altid)
           Special Award: The Days of Greek Gods
           Short: Bertrand Missing (Bertrand disparu)
           Video: The War Widow

1987 Feature: Law of Desire (La ley del deseo)

1986 Feature: Westler: East of the Wall (Westler)
           Documentary: The AIDS Show

1985 Feature: Broken Mirrors (Gebroken spiegels)
           Documentary: The Times of Harvey Milk
           Short: David Roche Talks to You About Love

1984 Feature: Angel (Angelos)
           Documentary: Improper Conduct (Mauvaise conduite)