Golden Space Needle Award – Best Director

1997 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerThe Pillow BookPeter GreenawayA woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.Amazon

1998 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerGods and MonstersBill CondonThe last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.Amazon

1999 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerLimboJohn SaylesIn an economically devastated Alaskan town, a fisherman with a troublesome past dates a woman whose young daughter does not approve of him. When he witnesses the murder of his shady brother, he, the woman and the kid run to the wilderness.Amazon

2000 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerShowerYang ZhangShenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family's bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da's ...Amazon

2001 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerOTim Blake NelsonAn update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with a young cast, set in an upper class prep school, & centered around basketball player Odin.Amazon

2002 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerSex and LucíaJulio MedemVarious lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.Amazon

2019 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerSons of DenmarkUlaa SalimDenmark four years into the future. After a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalization and ethnic tensions are running high, and a racist leader is leading the polls.19-year old Zakaria is afraid, wanting to do something.Amazon2019 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesAfterlifeWillem BoschAmazonFor SamaWaad Al-KateabAmazonTel Aviv on FireSameh ZoabiAmazonX.Károly Ujj MészárosAmazon

2004 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerThe Best of YouthMarco Tullio GiordanaAn Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.Amazon

2005 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerMysterious SkinGregg ArakiA teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.Amazon

2006 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerWristcutters: A Love StoryGoran DukicA film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.Amazon