With the closing of the Sydney Film Festival last Sunday, the audience awards for best narrative feature and best documentary have just been announced.

Audience members were invited to rate the film after each screening via an app-based voting system.


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Ziad Doueiri’s, Oscar-nominated drama, The Insult, took out best feature and Australian documentary Backtrack Boys by Catherine Scott was the favourite documentary.

Check out the full list below and see how the voting compared to the judges verdict here.

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE

1st — The Insult

2nd — Searching

3rd — Rafiki 

4th — An Elephant Sitting Still 

Equal 5th — Aga and Leave No Trace

audience award for best documentary 

1st — Backtrack Boys

2nd — Teach A Man To Fish

3rd — I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story 

4th — Oyster

5th — Jill Bilcock: Dancing The Invisible 

 



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