Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Tel Aviv on Fire
Sameh Zoabi
2018 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham
2017 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
At the End of the Tunnel
Rodrigo Grande
2016 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Captain Fantastic
Matt Ross
2015 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
The Dark Horse
James Napier Robertson
2014 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2013 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola
Henk Pretorius
2012 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Any Day Now
Travis Fine
2011 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Face to Face
Leanne Hanley
2010 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
The Hedgehog
Mona Achache
2009 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Black Dynamite
Scott Sanders
2008 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Cherry Blossoms
Doris Dörrie
2007 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Outsourced
John Jeffcoat
2006 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Michel Hazanavicius
2005 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Innocent Voices
2004 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Facing Windows
2003 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Whale Rider
2002 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Elling
2001 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Finder’s Fee
2000 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Shower
1999 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Run Lola Run
1998 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
God Said, ‘Ha!’
1997 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
1996 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Trainspotting
1995 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
The Kingdom
1994 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1993 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
The Wedding Banquet
1992 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
1991 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
My Father’s Glory
1991 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
My Mother’s Castle
1990 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Pump Up the Volume
1989 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Apartment Zero
Martin Donovan
1989 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Apartment Zero
1988 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
Bagdad Cafe
1987 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
My Life as a Dog
1986 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
The Assault
1985 Seattle International Film Festival – Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film
