Whistler Film Festival Audience Award

The Audience Award is an annual award given by the Whistler Film Festival to the most popular film voted by festival audiences.

Winners

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref
2002	Flower & Garnet	Keith Behrman	[1]
2003	In the Shadow of the Chief	Ivan Hughes	[2]
2004	Crazy Canucks	Randy Bradshaw	[3]
2005	Love Is Work	John Kalangis	[4]
2006	Mystic Ball	Greg Hamilton	[5]
2007	Amal	Richie Mehta	[6]
2008	RiP!: A Remix Manifesto	Brett Gaylor	[7]
2009	Suck	Rob Stefaniuk	[8]
2010	The Whistleblower	Larysa Kondracki	[9]
2011	Monsieur Lazhar	Philippe Falardeau	[10]
2012	My Awkward Sexual Adventure	Sean Garrity	[11]
2013	Cas & Dylan	Jason Priestley	[12]
2014	A Most Violent Year	J. C. Chandor	[13]
2015	Carol	Todd Haynes	[14]
2016	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	[15]
2017	Darkest Hour	Joe Wright	[16]
2018	On the Basis of Sex	Mimi Leder	[17]
2019	A Call to Spy	Lydia Dean Pilcher	[18]
2020	The Paper Man (Lafortune en papier)	Tanya Lapointe	[19]
2021	Drinkwater	Stephen Campanelli	[20]
2022	Gringa	E.J. Foerster, Marny Eng	[21]
2023	500 Days in the Wild	Dianne Whelan	[22]
2024	Blue Rodeo: Lost Together	Dale Heslip	[23]

References

1. Dana Michell, "Film fest favourites announced". Pique Newsmagazine , December 19, 2002.
2. "Film on Vancouver street life wins at Whistler". The Globe and Mail , December 10, 2003.
3. "Whistler Film Fest winners". Vancouver Courier , December 8, 2004.
4. Ilona Berks, "Industry turns out for Whistler". Playback , January 9, 2006.
5. "Myanmar film people's choice". Kamloops Daily News , December 8, 2006.
6. Michael Kissinger, "Whistler Film Festival a wrap; Moguls and movie-goers mingle at mountaintop meet-and-greet". Vancouver Courier , December 5, 2007.
7. Fred Lee, "Whistler fest shines on Canadian films; Justice gala supports first responders". National Post , December 13, 2008.
8. "Les Signes Vitaux wins Borsos". Pique Newsmagazine , December 11, 2009.
9. Graeme McRanor, "It's a wrap for 10th anniversary of Whistler Film Festival; Highlights included a chat with filmmakers Monte Hellman, Bruce McDonald and Atom Egoyan and a new home for the film fest". Vancouver Sun , December 6, 2010.
10. "Oscar hopeful voted audience favourite at Whistler Film Fest". Prince George Citizen , December 7, 2011.
11. Martin Knelman, "Bed head: Jonas Chernick ponders sexual hang-ups in latest film". Toronto Star , January 5, 2013.
12. Cassandra Szklarski, "Dreyfuss gushes over Canuck co-star Maslany in odd-couple road movie". Canadian Press, March 31, 2014.
13. Cathryn Atkinson, "Quebec drama Félix et Meira sweeps Borsos Awards at WFF 2014". Pique Newsmagazine , December 10, 2014.
14. Craig Takeuchi, "WFF 2015 photos: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle, and award winners". The Georgia Straight , December 8, 2015.
15. Cathryn Atkinson, "Quebec's Before the Streets wins Borsos Best Film Award at Whistler Film Festival". Pique Newsmagazine , December 7, 2016.
16. Etan Vlessing, "Evan Rachel Wood Wins Best Performance at Whistler Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter , December 3, 2017.
17. Pat Mullen, "‘Hugh Hefner’s After Dark’ Tops Whistler Winners". Point of View , December 6, 2018.
18. Alyssa Noel, "Whistler Film Festival hands out awards". Pique Newsmagazine , December 14, 2019.
19. Pat Mullen, "The Paper Man Wins Audience Award at Whistler Film Fest". Point of View , December 28, 2020.
20. Brandon Barrett, "Coming-of-age film Drinkwater wins Audience Award at WFF". Pique Newsmagazine , December 28, 2021.
21. "GRINGA Starring Steve Zahn Wins Audience Award at 2022 Whistler Film Festival". Vimooz, December 28, 2022.
22. Emily Lyth, "At Whistler Film Festival, 500 Days in the Wild wins this year's Audience Award". Stir, December 12, 2023.
23. Jamie Casemore, "Dale Heslip’s Blue Rodeo doc wins over Whistler audiences". Playback , December 16, 2024.

External links

• Official website