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.

2024 Feature: All Shall Be Well (從今以後)
           Documentary: The World According to Allee Willis

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 (Skallamann)

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 (สตรีเหล็ก)
           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 (雙鐲)
           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 (Άγγελος)
           Documentary: Improper Conduct (Mauvaise conduite)