Melbourne International Film Festival 2011: People’s Choice Awards

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

1. A Separation
2. Face to Face
3. Our Idiot Brother
4. Red Dog
5. Troll Hunter
6. Beginners
7. Melancholia
8. Le Havre
9. The Slap
10. Submarine
11. The Kid with a Bike
12. Toomelah
13. The Eye of the Storm
14. Falling for Sahara
15. Tiny Furniture
16. The Future
17. Good Bye
18. Essential Killing
19. X
20. 13 Assassins

DOCUMENTARY

1. Senna
2. Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
3. I Am Eleven
4. Life in Movement
5. Fire in Babylon
6. Page One: Inside the New York Times
7. Life in a Day
8. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
9. Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
10. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
11. The Bengali Detective
12. Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place
13. Bobby Fischer Against the World
14. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
15.  Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
16. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
17. Into Eternity
18. Persecution Blues: The Battle for the Tote
19. Tabloid
20. Detroit Wild City