Film Awards

2017 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerI, Daniel BlakeDave JohnsAfter having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.Amazon2017 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor NomineesAfterimageBoguslaw LindaAmazonAt the End of the TunnelLeonardo SbaragliaAmazonThe JourneyTimothy SpallAmazonThe Nile Hilton IncidentFares FaresAmazon

2016 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerA Man Called OveRolf LassgårdOve, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.Amazon2016 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor Nominees13 MinutesChristian FriedelAmazonBetween Sea and LandManolo CruzAmazonThe Night StalkerLou Diamond PhillipsAmazonTrumanRicardo DarínAmazon

2015 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerThe Dark HorseCliff CurtisA brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.Amazon2015 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor NomineesHenri HenriVictor Andres Turgeon-TrellesAmazonMr. HolmesIan McKellenAmazonThe End of the TourJason SegelAmazonTheebJacir Eid Al-HwietatAmazon

2014 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerLife Feels GoodDawid OgrodnikThe story of a boy suffering from cerebral palsy and his troubled growing up during Poland's transition in the 1980s and 90s.Amazon2014 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor NomineesBelle & SebastianFélix BossuetAmazonClass EnemyIgor SamoborAmazonMe, Myself and MumGuillaume GallienneAmazonMy Last Year with the NunsMatt SmithAmazon

2013 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerStill MineJames CromwellAn elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.Amazon2013 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor NomineesAin't Them Bodies SaintsCasey AffleckAmazonImagineEdward HoggAmazonIn the ShadowIvan TrojanAmazonLudwig IISabin TambreaAmazonScrapperMichael BeachAmazonThe AttackAli SulimanAmazonThe HuntMads MikkelsenAmazonThis Is Martin BonnerPaul EenhoornAmazonUnfinished SongTerence StampAmazonYou Will Be My SonNiels ArestrupAmazon

2012 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerAny Day NowAlan CummingIn the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.Amazon2012 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor NomineesEdenMatt O'LearyAmazon

2009 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerMoonSam RockwellAstronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problemsAmazon

2008 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerBottle ShockAlan RickmanThe story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris".Amazon

2007 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Actor WinnerSalvador (Puig Antich)Daniel BrühlA profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.Amazon