2009 Edinburgh Film Festival Awards
2009 Edinburgh Film Festival: June 17-28, 2009
After spending three years at a moon base extracting a gas needed to reverse Earth's energy crisis, an astronaut (Sam Rockwell) is about to return to his home planet when he starts seeing and hearing things. His company has apparently come up with an eerie retirement plan of their own.
Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film: Moon directed by Duncan Jones
Best Performance in a British Feature Film: Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank
Best New International Feature: Easier with Practice by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Best Documentary: Boris Ryzhy by Aliona van der Horst
Best British Short Film: After Tomorrow by Emma Sullivan
Best International Short Film: Princess Margaret BLVD directed by Kazik Radwanksi
Scottish Short Documentary Award: Peter in Radioland by Johanna Wagner
McLaren Award for New British Animation: Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill
New Directors Award: Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre
Audience Award: The Secret of Kells directed by Tomm Moore
Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award: Humpday directed by Lynn Shelton
Jury: Director Joe Wright (president); film critic Claudia Puig; actress Sacha Horler; journalist and author Janet Street-Porter; and actor Frank Langella