Edinburgh International Film Festival Awards acknowledge both national and international filmmaker talent and are recognised in the industry for rewarding and promoting excellence.

2007 Winners

Standard Life Audience Award 2007
We Are Together

The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film 2007
Control, Directed by Anton Corbijn

Skillset New Directors Award 2007
Lucia Puenzo for XXY

UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film 2007
James Griffiths for The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island. Special mention for Paddy Considine for Dog Altogether.

The McLaren Award for New British Animation in Partnership with BBC Film Network 2007
Peter Baynton for Over The Hill

Edinburgh Nomination European Film Academy Short Film 2007 - Prix UIP
Soft by Simon Ellis. Special mention to Final Journey by Lars Zimmermann and Ottica Zero by Maja Borg

Short Scottish Documentary Award supported by Baillie Gifford
Breadmakers by Yasmin Fedda. Special mention to How To Save a Fish From Drowning by Kelly Neal.

Sky Movies Best Documentary Award
Billy The Kid by Jennifer Venditti. Special Jury Commendation to The Monastery: Mr Vig and The Nun by Pernille Rose Gronkjaer

PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film
Sam Riley for Control

Standard Life Audience Award

Sponsored by Standard Life, the winner is chosen by audience votes from in the Gala and British sections. The award celebrates mainstream cinema delights: narrative skill, characterisation, suspense, spectacle, comedy, etc.

Past Winners:

2006

Clerks II

2005

Tsotsi

2004

Inside I'm Dancing

2003

Afterlife

2002

Rabbit Proof Fence

2001

Amelie

2000

Billy Elliot

1999

Buena Vista Social Club

1998

The Full Monty

1997

Get Real

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UK Film Council Kodak Award for Best British Short Film

Judged by an international jury and including a cash prize, the Best British Short Film Award is again supported by Kodak and the UK Film Council. This award recognises new talent in UK filmmaking.

The 2007 winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and Kodak film stock.

Past Short Film Award winners:

2006

Dictynna Hood for 'The Other Man'

2005

John Williams for 'Hibernation'

2004

Ian B MacDonald for 'Billy's Day Out' and Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor for 'Who Killed Brown Owl'

2003

Duane Hopkins for 'Love Me or Leave Me Alone'

2002

Joachim Trier for 'Procter'

2001

Alicia Duffy for 'Crow Stone', Brian Percival for 'About a Girl'

2000

Martin Radich for 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find', Alnoor Dewshi for 'Jomeo & Ruliet'

1999

Morag McKinnon for 'Home', Joern Utkilen for 'My Job' and Martin Radich for 'In Memory of Dorothy Bennett'

1998

Jamie Thraves for 'I Just Want to Kiss You', Matt Hulse for 'Wee Three'.

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Edinburgh Nomination European Film Academy
Short Film 2007 - Prix UIP

The European Film Academy Short Film 2007 - Prix UIP was inaugurated in 1998 within the framework of the annual European Film Awards. At thirteen festivals in Europe, EFA and UIP present a Prix UIP to a talented, new European filmmaker. The winners from thirteen festivals go forward as nominations for the European Film Academy Short Film - Prix UIP, which is presented at the European Film Awards in December and carries a prize of €10,000. The selection of the winning film at Edinburgh is made by a jury and the Award includes a financial donation of €2000.

The partnership with EIFF underpins the international spirit of discovery in filmmaking that Edinburgh pursues.

Past EIFF winners:

2006

'Zakaria' by Gianluca De Serio & Massimiliano De Serio

2005

Ruben Östlund for 'Autobiographical Scene Number 6882'

2004

Richard Jordan for 'Cleopatra's Nose' (La Nariz de Cleopatra)

2003

Brigitte Staermose for 'Small Avalanches' (SMA SKRED)

2002

EIFF nomination: Joachim 'Trier for Procter'

2001

EIFF nomination: Slawomir Fabicki for 'A Man Thing'

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The Michael Powell Award
For Best New British Feature Film

Named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers and inaugurated in 1993, the Michael Powell Award is sponsored by the UK Film Council . Rewarding imagination and creativity in British film making, the Award is judged by an international jury and carries a substantial cash prize.

Previous winners:

2006

Brothers of the Head (Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe)

2005

Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)

2004

My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)

2003

Young Adam (David MacKenzie)

2002

Out of Control (Dominic Savage)

2001

Gas Attack (Kenny Glenaan)

2000

Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski)

1999

The War Zone (Tim Roth)

1998

Love Is The Devil (John Maybury)

1997

Under The Skin (Carine Adler)

1996

Jude (Michael Winterbottom)

1995

Small Faces (Gillies Mackinnon)

1994

Priest (Antonia Bird)

1993

Blue (Derek Jarman)

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The McLaren Award for New British Animation
in partnership with BBC Film Network

The award is named after Stirling born and Glasgow School of Art trained Norman McLaren. Well-known for his innovative work with the GPO film unit in London , McLaren was a true pioneer. Throughout his career, he experimented with ideas and animation techniques, such as drawing images directly onto film and even drawing on the soundtrack. So it is particularly apt that McLaren should be remembered with this award, which provides a focus for new British animation and recognises the free spirit of creativity. This award will be supported in 2007 for the second year in  with BBC Film Network.

Past winners:

2006

Run Wrake for 'Rabbit'

2005

Elizabeth Hobbs for 'The True Story of Sawney Beane'

2004

Shynola for 'Blur's Good Song' and John-Paul Harney for 'Brand Spanking'

2003

Stephen McCollum for 'Pullin' the Devil by the Tail'

2002

Shynola with Ruth Lingford for 'An Eye for an Eye'

2001

Suzie Templeton for 'Dog'

2000

John Williams for 'Robots, The Animated Docu-Soap'

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Short Scottish Documentary Award
supported by Baillie Gifford

Supporting Scottish talent, this award will reward first and second time short documentary filmmakers either working in, or from, Scotland.

Winners:

2006

Edward Brooke Hitching for 'The Really Terrible Orchestra'

2005

Simon Hynd for 'Arts: The Catalyst'

2004

Jim Hickey for 'And So Goodbye'

2003

Craig Collinson for 'She Toon: City of Bingo'

2002

Anna Jones for 'Sky High'

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Skillset New Directors Award

This award is to acknowledge new interpretation and innovation in filmmaking and underlines one of the basic tenets of the Film Festival, which is to be a Festival of discovery. The award, to be judged by jury, is selected from first and second time filmmakers in the Rosebud and British Gala sections.

Winners:

2006

Paul Andrew Williams for 'London to Brighton'

2005

Mike Mills for 'Thumbsucker'

2004

Morgan Spurlock for 'Super Size Me'

2003

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini for 'American Splendor'

2002

Carlos Reygadas for 'Japón'

2001

Joint winners Michael Cuesta for 'L.I.E.' and Zacharias Kunuk for 'Atanarjuat The Fast Runner'

2000

Alejandro González Iñárritu for 'Amores Perros'

1999

Lynne Ramsay for 'Ratcatcher'

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Sky Movies Best Documentary Award

In 2006 EIFF introduced an award for Best Documentary Feature. This year the award is sponsored by Sky Movies and the winner will receive a substantial cash prize.

The award will recognise a singular and compelling achievement in non-fiction filmmaking and is intended to honour work which reveals a fascination with a particular subject, rendered onscreen with style, truthfulness and integrity to its sources. It celebrates the act of filmmaking for its own sake, divorced from commercial considerations, and driven instead by the desire to represent some aspect of life or experience, and, in so doing, to expand the horizons of its audience.

Feature length documentaries are eligible for this Award.

2006

Jake Clennell for 'The Great Happiness Space: Tale of An Osaka Love Thief'

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PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film

In spite of the illustrious guest list over the past 60 festivals, EIFF has never had an acting award. Thanks to the generous support of PPG, 2007 sees the launch of a new award to honour the best performance in a British Feature Film. The award will be judged by the Michael Powell Award jury.

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