The 60th Melbourne International Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2011 People’s Choice Awards, as voted by festival patrons.
Mirroring the recent Sydney Film Festival Prize, the People’s Choice award for Fiction went to Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation. The Documentary Award went to the phenomenally popular Senna, based on the life of controversial race car driver Ayrton Senna.
The full list of winners is as follows:
FICTION
- A Separation
- Face to Face
- Our Idiot Brother
- Red Dog
- Troll Hunter
- Beginners
- Melancholia
- Le Havre
- The Slap
- Submarine
- The Kid with a Bike
- Toomelah
- The Eye of the Storm
- Falling for Sahara
- Tiny Furniture
- The Future
- Good Bye
- Essential Killing
- X
- 13 Assassins
DOCUMENTARY
- Senna
- Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
- I Am Eleven
- Life in Movement
- Fire in Babylon
- Page One: Inside the New York Times
- Life in a Day
- Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
- Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
- The Bengali Detective
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place
- Bobby Fischer Against the World
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
- El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
- Into Eternity
- Persecution Blues: The Battle for the Tote
- Tabloid
- Detroit Wild City