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2009 Awards
170 holders of SIFF passes (full series, platinum, press, sponsor and staff) rated every SIFF film they saw, averaging 68 films each.
Most Liked
The Most Liked films (those with the highest weighted average vote) are:
- Departures
- North Face
- Tears of April
- Séraphine
- Necessities of Life
- The Hurt Locker
- That Evening Sun
- Troubled Water
- Moon
- Kabei - Our Mother
Top Documentaries
The Top Documentary films (those with the highest weighted average vote) are:
- Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country
- Every Little Step
- The Beaches of Agnès
- Sweet Crude
Top Archival
The Top Archival films (those with the highest weighted average vote) are:
- Sunset Boulevard
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The Third Man
- Dodsworth
The Special Category Award Winners
The Special Category Award Winners are:
| Category | Person and/or Film |
| Best Director | Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker |
| Best Script | a tie between Lynn Shelton for Humpday and Kundo Koyama for Departures. |
| Best Cinematographer | Kolja Brandt for North Face |
| Best Music | Osvaldo Golijov for Tetro |
| Best Actor | Natar Ungalaaq for Necessities of Life |
| Best Actress | Yolande Moreau for Séraphine |
| Best Guilty Pleasure | a tie between ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction and Black Dynamite |
Copyright
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