Awards - Miami Film Festival - 2015-2024
National Awards
- Academy Awards
- Independent Spirit Awards
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- European Film Awards
- César Awards
- Goya Awards
- German Film Awards
- Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- Jussi Awards
- Czech Lion Awards
- Sun in a Net Awards
- Polish Film Awards
- Hungarian Motion Picture Awards (Hungarian Film Awards)
- Filmfare Awards
- Guldbagge Awards
- Amanda Awards
- AACTA International Awards
- Hong Kong Film Awards
Film Festivals
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Miami Film Festival
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF)
- Zurich Film Festival
- San Sebastián International Film Festival
- Sitges Film Festival
- Shanghai International Film Festival
- Warsaw International Film Festival
- Montreal World Film Festival
- Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
- Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- Zlín Film Festival
- FAMUfest
- Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
- Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival
Critics Awards
- Golden Globes
- Critics Choice Awards
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Czech Film Critics Awards
Genre / Special Awards
Anti-awards
2024 - 41st Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Marimbas Award
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Marimbas Award
- Los Frikis (Tyler Nilson, Mike Schwartz)
- Ezra (Tony Goldwyn)
- A Normal Family (Jin-ho Heo)
- Days of Happiness (Chloé Robichaud)
- Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
- Dear Jassi (Tarsem Singh)
- Ghostlight (Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson)
- Joika (James Napier Robertson)
- Sing Sing (Greg Kwedar)
- Out of Season (Stéphane Brizé)
- Puan (María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat)
- The Rye Horn (Jaione Camborda)
- Something Is About to Happen (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
- Sujo (Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez)
- We Grown Now (Minhal Baig)
- The Shadow of the Sun (Miguel A. Ferrer)
- Back to Life (Alfredo Hueck, Luis Carlos Hueck)
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
- Mountains (Monica Sorelle)
- A Communist Brainwashed My Daughter (Daniel Lago)
- Idol Affair (Teresa Bellón, César F. Calvillo)
- Mumble: Fate of A Lost Icon (Frankie Midnight)
- Naked Ambition (Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch)
- Resident Orca (Simon Schneider, Sarah Sharkey Pearce)
- Puffing Iron (Chris Rodriguez, Grant Rosado)
Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- Daughters (Angela Patton, Natalie Rae)
- Black Box Diaries (Shiori Itō)
- The Contestant (Clair Titley)
- En la caliente: Tales of a Reggaeton Warrior (Fabien Pisani)
- The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
- Lady Like (Luke Willis)
- Landrián (Ernesto Daranas)
- Maya and the Wave (Stephanie Johnes)
- Merchant Ivory (Stephen Soucy)
- Resident Orca (Simon Schneider, Sarah Sharkey Pearce)
- Skywalkers: A Love Story (Maria Bukhonina, Jeff Zimbalist)
- Stories from the Lighthouse (Deborah Dickson)
- Story & Pictures By (Joanna Rudnick)
- Tell Them You Love Me (Nick August-Perna)
- What's Next? (Taylor Taglianetti)
- Women of Iran (Nima Soofi)
Short Documentary Award
Reel South Short Award
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
- In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorraza)
- All the Silence (Diego del Río)
- Babes (Pamela Adlon)
- Devil Dog Road (Guillermo Polo)
- Excursion (Una Gunjak)
- The Girls Are Alright (Itsaso Arana)
- Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
- Good Bad Things (Shane D. Stanger)
- Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Ariane Louis-Seize)
- The Hypnosis (Ernst De Geer)
- La Suprema (Felipe Holguín)
- The Major Tones (Ingrid Pokropek)
- Oceans Are the Real Continents (Tommaso Santambrogio)
- The Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza)
- Salt Water (Steven Morales Pineda)
- Rain (Rodrigo García Sáiz)
- Sariri (Laura Donoso)
- Seguridad (Tamara Segura)
- Sisterhood (Nora el Hourch)
- Wild Woman (Alán González)
- Vera and the Pleasure of Others (Federico Actis, Romina Tamburello)
Cinemaslam Student Film Award
Miami International Short Film Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Audience Award - Best Documentary
Precious Gem Award
Variety Creative Vanguard Award
Variety Virtuoso Award
2023 - 40th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Marimbas Award
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Marimbas Award
- The Beasts (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber)
- Riceboy Sleeps (Anthony Shim)
- Piece of My Heart (Dana Nechushtan)
- Sanctuary (Zachary Wigon)
- Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik)
- Vicenta B. (Carlos Lechuga)
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- The Padilla Affair (Pavel Giroud)
- A Bunch of Amateurs (Kim Hopkins)
- Kite Zo A: Leave the Bones (Kaveh Nabatian)
- Little Richard: I Am Everything (Lisa Cortes)
- Stephen Curry: Underrated (Peter Nicks)
- The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi)
- Judy Blume Forever (Davina Pardo, Leah Wolchok)
- Pianoforte (Jakub Piątek)
- The Disappearance of Shere Hite (Nicole Newnham)
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
- I Like Movies (Chandler Levack)
- Everybody Wants to Be Loved (Katharina Woll)
- Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aitch Alberto)
- Carmen (Benjamin Millepied)
- Charcoal (Carolina Markowicz)
- La corriente (Ibiza Blue) (Ainara Landon, Jesús Lloveras)
- Daughter of Rage (Laura Baumeister de Montis)
- Somewhere in Queens (Ray Romano)
- Safe Place (Juraj Lerotić)
Alacran Music in Film Award
Cinemaslam Student Film Award
Miami International Short Film Award
Goya Quick Bites Short Film Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Art of Light Award
2022 - 39th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Marimbas Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Marimbas Award
- Freda (Gessica Geneus)
- The Box (Lorenzo Vigas)
- The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (Francisca Alegría)
- Drunken Birds (Ivan Grbovic)
- Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams)
- Medusa (Anita Rocha da Silveira)
- Soul of a Beast (Lorenz Merz)
- Out of Sync (Juanjo Giménez Peña)
Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- South Beach Shark Club (Robert Requejo Ramos)
- 2nd Chance (Ramin Bahrani)
- Strangers to Peace (Noah DeBonis, Laura Angel Rengifo)
- InHospitable (Sandra C. Alvarez)
- Mija (Isabel Castro)
- Keep the Cameras Rolling: The Pedro Zamora Way (William T. Horner, Stacey Woelfel)
- La guerra Civil (Eva Longoria)
- Outta the Muck (Ira McKinley, Bhawin Suchak)
- The Art of Making It (Kelcey Edwards)
- The Business of Birth Control (Abby Epstein)
Short Documentary Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
- You Resemble Me (Dina Amer)
- Amparo (Simón Mesa Soto)
- The Gravedigger's Wife (Khadar Ayderus Ahmed)
- Candela (Andrés Farías)
- Immersion (Nico Postiglione)
- Anaïs in Love (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet)
- Hatching (Hanna Bergholm)
- Master (Mariama Diallo)
Alacran Music in Film Award
Cinemaslam Student Film Award
Miami International Short Film Award
WarnerMedia Ibero-American Feature Film Award
- Carajita (Ulises Porra, Silvina Schnicer)
- Amalgama (Carlos Cuarón)
- The Unemployment Club (David Marqués)
- Estación catorce (Diana Cardozo)
- Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea (Marcel Barrena)
- The Lost Children of Jarabacoa (Rolando Díaz)
- Plaza Catedral (Abner Benaim)
- Parsley (José María Cabral)
WarnerMedia OneFifty Latino Short Film Award
Oolite Arts Miami Film Festival Poster Design Award
- Parsley (Nate Biller)
Oolite Arts Miami Film Festival Trailer Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Art of Light Award
Precious Gem Award
Precious Gem Icon Award
2021 - 38th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Marimbas Award
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Marimbas Award
- Quo vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić)
- The Wanderlust of Apu (Subhrajit Mitra)
- The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
- 1991 (Sergio Ramírez)
- Hotel Coppelia (José María Cabral)
- Sun Children (Majid Majidi)
- The Best Families (Javier Fuentes-León)
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)
- The Present (Farah Nabulsi)
- They Remained Silent (Albert Folk)
- I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face (Sameh Alaa)
- Gramercy (Pat Heywood, Jamil McGinnis)
- Kapaemahu (Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu)
- Pizza Party (Tessa Hope Slovis)
- Tacet (Maria Paula Arboleda)
- Under the Heavens (Gustavo Milan)
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
- Lorelei (Sabrina Doyle)
- The Pink Cloud (Iuli Gerbase)
- Bridges (Maria Corina Ramirez)
- Poppy Field (Eugen Jebeleanu)
- Apples (Christos Nikou)
- The Saint of the Impossible (Marc Raymond Wilkins)
- Sin La Habana (Kaveh Nabatian)
Alacran Music in Film Award
WarnerMedia Ibero-American Feature Film Award
WarnerMedia OneFifty Latino Short Film Award
Oolite Arts Miami Film Festival Poster Design Award
Oolite Arts Miami Film Festival Trailer Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Impact Award
Art of Light Award
- Aldis Hodge (One Night in Miami)
- Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
- Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Precious Gem Award
Precious Gem Master Award
Precious Gem Icon Award
2020 - 37th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Marimbas Award
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Marimbas Award
- La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante)
- Aadhaar (Suman Ghosh)
- Alelí (Leticia Jorge)
- And the Birds Rained Down (Louise Archambault)
- Arab Blues (Manele Labidi)
- Detention (John Hsu)
- Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars (Alankrita Shrivastava)
- Eduardo and Monica (René Sampaio)
- High Tide (Verónica Chen)
- Ema (Pablo Larraín)
- Pacified (Paxton Winters)
- Lara (Jan-Ole Gerster)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
- Proxima (Alice Winocour)
- Resistance (Jonathan Jakubowicz)
- Synchronic (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead)
- While at War (Alejandro Amenábar)
- The Invisible (Gracia Querejeta)
- The Sleepwalkers (Paula Hernández)
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
- When Liberty Burns (Dudley Alexis)
- Chateau Vato (Tom Musca)
- Marcus (J.R. Poli)
- List(e)n (Juliana Tafur)
- Reefa (Jessica Kavana Dornbusch)
- Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch)
- The Last Rafter (Carlos Rafael Betancourt, Oscar Ernesto Ortega)
- Us Kids (Kim A. Snyder)
Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award
- T (Keisha Rae Witherspoon)
- Third Trinity (Yara Travieso)
- The Woman Under The Tree (Karishma Kohli)
- Mango Season (Carmen Pelaez)
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- The Fight (Eli B. Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
- Bakosó: AfroBeats of Cuba (Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi)
- Boys State (Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss)
- 30 for 30 - Be Water (Bao Nguyen)
- Crip Camp (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham)
- Free Color (Alberto Arvelo Mendoza)
- Juan (Adrián Geyer)
- Whispering (Heidi Hassan, Patricia Pérez Fernández)
- Lifeline / Clyfford Still (Dennis Scholl)
- List(e)n (Juliana Tafur)
- Los Ultimos Frikis (Nicholas Brennan)
- Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back (John Carluccio)
- Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch)
- Paper Children (Alexandra Codina)
- Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (Anabel Rodriguez Rios)
- Revolution Rent (Victor Patrick Alvarez, Andres Senor)
- River City Drumbeat (Anne Flatté, Marlon Johnson)
- Some Kind of Heaven (Lance Oppenheim)
- Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf)
- Time (Garrett Bradley)
- The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi)
- Us Kids (Kim A. Snyder)
- Welcome to Chechnya (David France)
- When Liberty Burns (Dudley Alexis)
Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
- This Is Cristina (Gonzalo Maza)
- 90 Minutes (Aeden O'Connor)
- Catching Up (Bill Crossland)
- A Mother (Diógenes Cuevas)
- Grandfathers (Santiago Requejo)
- Fabulous (Mélanie Charbonneau)
- Lina from Lima (Maria Paz Gonzalez)
- Instinct (Halina Reijn)
- The Good Intentions (Ana García Blaya)
- Marcus (J.R. Poli)
- Our Mothers (Cesar Diaz)
- The Innocence (Lucía Alemany)
- Iron Bridge (Monika Jordan-Młodzianowska)
- The Last Rafter (Carlos Rafael Betancourt, Oscar Ernesto Ortega)
- Workforce (David Zonana)
- Zoros Solo (Martin Busker)
HBO Ibero-American Competition - Best Film
- The Wolves (Samuel Kishi)
- A Mother (Diógenes Cuevas)
- Eduardo and Monica (René Sampaio)
- High Tide (Verónica Chen)
- Lina from Lima (Maria Paz Gonzalez)
- La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante)
- Our Mothers (Cesar Diaz)
- Out in the Open (Benito Zambrano)
- Overnight (Manuel Ferrari)
- Pacified (Paxton Winters)
- The Innocence (Lucía Alemany)
- The Invisible (Gracia Querejeta)
- This Is Cristina (Gonzalo Maza)
- Workforce (David Zonana)
- The Sleepwalkers (Paula Hernández)
HBO Ibero-American Competition - Best Short Film
Alacran Music in Film Award
Zeno Mountain Award
- Crip Camp (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham)
- Catching Up (Bill Crossland)
- Endure the Suck (Isaac Mead-Long)
- A Mother (Diógenes Cuevas)
Oolite Arts Miami Film Festival Poster Design Award
- Ema (Daniel González Sánchez)
Oolite Arts Miami Film Festival Trailer Award
- Ema (Hands Up Paris)
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Precious Gem Award
2019 - 36th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
- Birds of Passage (Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra)
- An Affair (Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken)
- 303 (Hans Weingartner)
- Ash Is Purest White (Zhangke Jia)
- Burning (Chang-dong Lee)
- Buy Me a Gun (Julio Hernández Cordón)
- Dear Son (Mohamed Ben Attia)
- Divine Love (Gabriel Mascaro)
- Dogman (Matteo Garrone)
- Florianópolis Dream (Ana Katz)
- Golden Youth (Eva Ionesco)
- Helmet Heads (Neto Villalobos)
- The Good Girls (Alejandra Marquez Abella)
- Juanita (Leticia Tonos)
- My Daughter Yoshiko (Brian Blum)
- Magical Nights (Paolo Virzì)
- Double Lives (Olivier Assayas)
- Shadow (Yimou Zhang)
- The Accused (Gonzalo Tobal)
- The Most Beautiful Couple (Sven Taddicken)
- The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
- The Projectionist (José María Cabral)
- The Trouble with You (Pierre Salvadori)
- Tremors (Jayro Bustamante)
Knight Made in MIA Feature Film Award
- Pahokee (Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas)
- A Name Without a Place (Kenny Riches)
- Off the Rails (Damian Fitzsimmons)
- Magic City Hustle (Billy Corben)
- The Great Mother (Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker)
Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- Magic City Hustle (Billy Corben)
- Ask Dr. Ruth (Ryan White)
- Amazing Grace (Alan Elliott)
- 16 Bars (Sam Bathrick)
- Botero (Don Millar)
- Chasing the Thunder (Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin)
- Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba To The World (Cynthia Biestek, Ruben Gomez)
- Errol Flynn's Ghost: Hollywood in Havana (Gaspar González)
- I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (Jessica Leski)
- Kenbe Fem: A Haitian Story of Survival Unity & Strength (Mark Goodnow)
- Coming Home: Colombia (Eric Narciandi)
- The Great Mother (Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker)
- Los reyes (Ivan Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut)
- Last Street (Amanda Sans)
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Stanley Nelson)
- Pahokee (Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas)
- The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester)
- The Silence of Others (Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo)
- Lava (Michael Brown)
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Rob Garver)
- This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue)
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)
Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Ressler First Feature Award
- Sócrates (Alexandre Moratto)
- Dead Pigs (Cathy Yan)
- Chuskit (Priya Ramasubban)
- Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt)
- Freaks (Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein)
- Is That You? (Rudy Riverón Sánchez)
- Jasmines In Lidice (Rubén Sierra Salles)
- Journey to a Mother's Room (Celia Rico Clavellino)
- Nina (Maria Winther Olsen)
- Roads in February (Katherine Jerkovic)
- The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia (Arturo Infante)
- The Harvesters (Etienne Kallos)
HBO Ibero-American Competition - Best Film
- Fireflies (Bani Khoshnoudi)
- Breathe (Arturo Castro Godoy)
- Buy Me a Gun (Julio Hernández Cordón)
- Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Salvador Simó)
- Divine Love (Gabriel Mascaro)
- Champions (Javier Fesser)
- Florianópolis Dream (Ana Katz)
- Domingo (Fellipe Barbosa, Clara Linhart)
- Helmet Heads (Neto Villalobos)
- José (Li Cheng)
- Juanita (Leticia Tonos)
- The Good Girls (Alejandra Marquez Abella)
- Perro Bomba (Juan Cáceres)
- The Accused (Gonzalo Tobal)
- Rojo (Benjamín Naishtat)
- The Best Summer of My Life (Dani de la Orden)
- The Projectionist (José María Cabral)
- This Is Not Berlin (Hari Sama)
- Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story (Icíar Bollaín)
- Tremors (Jayro Bustamante)
- Wandering Girl (Rubén Mendoza)
HBO Ibero-American Competition - Best Short Film
Alacran Music in Film Award
Zeno Mountain Award
Cinemaslam Award - Best Director
Cinemaslam Award - Best Actor
IMDbPro Shorts Competition - Best Short Film
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Precious Gem Award
2018 - 35th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
- A Sort of Family (Diego Lerman)
- April's Daughter (Michel Franco)
- Another Story of the World (Guillermo Casanova)
- The Laws of Thermodynamics (Mateo Gil)
- Sergio and Sergei (Ernesto Daranas)
- Time Share (Sebastian Hofmann)
- The Warning (Daniel Calparsoro)
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Director
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- Amigo Skate, Cuba (Vanesa Wilkey-Escobar)
- When the Beat Drops (Jamal Sims)
- Liyana (Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp)
- 6 Weeks to Mother's Day (Marvin Blunte)
- Above the Drowning Sea (Rene Balcer, Nicola Zavaglia)
- Believer (Don Argott)
- Foreign Land (Shlomi Eldar)
- In Search of Voodoo: Roots to Heaven (Djimon Hounsou)
- The Oldies (Rosana Matecki)
- Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (Gustavo Salmerón)
- Love Means Zero (Jason Kohn)
- Nuyorican Básquet (Ricardo Olivero Lora, Julio César Torres)
- RBG (Julie Cohen, Betsy West)
- Our New President (Maxim Pozdorovkin)
- The Foreigner's Home (Rian Brown, Geoff Pingree)
- The Rest I Make Up (Michelle Memran)
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
- Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle)
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award
- Xavier Legrand (Custody)
- Michael Pearce (Beast)
- Cory Bowles (Black Cop)
- Christian Papierniak (Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town)
- Molly McGlynn (Mary Goes Round)
- Lucien Bourjeily (Heaven Without People)
- Ziyang Zhou (Old Beast)
- Ana Urushadze (Scary Mother)
- Sonja Kröner (The Garden)
- Hlynur Pálmason (Winter Brothers)
- Taylor Allen, Andrew Logan (Chappaquiddick)
HBO Ibero-American Competition - Best Film
Cinemaslam Award - Best Director
IMDbPro Shorts Competition - Best Short Film
- Mother (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
- A Drowning Man (Mahdi Fleifel)
- Broken Hill (Peter Drew)
- Emmy (Hannah Cheesman)
- (Fool Time) Job (Gilles Cuvelier)
- Mi Dulcinea (Max Barbakow)
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Precious Gem Award
Precious Gem Marquee Award
Precious Gem Master Award
Precious Gem Icon Award
2017 - 34th Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
- Family Life (Cristián Jiménez, Alicia Scherson)
- Cargo (Kareem Mortimer)
- El pampero (Matías Lucchesi)
- It's Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)
- May God Save Us (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
- Don't Blame the Kharma What Happens to You by Asshole (María Ripoll)
- Santa & Andres (Carlos Lechuga)
- Such is Life in the Tropics (Sebastián Cordero)
- Smoke & Mirrors (Alberto Rodríguez)
- The Empty Box (Claudia Sainte-Luce)
- The Night My Mother Killed My Father (Inés París)
- The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
- Zip and Zap and the Captain's Island (Oskar Santos)
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Director
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- Take My Nose... Please (Joan Kron)
- A Concrete Cinema (Luz Ruciello)
- Bending the Arc (Kief Davidson, Pedro Kos)
- Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (Matt Tyrnauer)
- Dream Empire (David Borenstein)
- Embargo (Jeri Rice)
- Mr. Chibbs (Jill Campbell)
- Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (Brian Knappenberger)
- Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan (Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger)
- Veinte Anos (Alice de Andrade)
- The Grown-Ups (Maite Alberdi)
Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)
- The Head Vanishes (Franck Dion)
- The Railroad Lady (Timo von Gunten)
- The Brindis (David Ferraro Jericoh)
- Spark (Juan Martinez Vera)
Rene Rodriguez Critics Award
Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award
- Tomás Alzamora (Little White Lie)
- Xander Robin (Are We Not Cats)
- Jorge Thielen Armand (La soledad)
- Nicholas Schutt (Chronically Metropolitan)
- Daouda Coulibaly (Wùlu)
HBO Ibero-American Competition - Best Film
- Maria and Everybody Else (Nely Reguera)
- El amparo (Rober Calzadilla)
- El inca (Ignacio Castillo Cottin)
- La soledad (Jorge Thielen Armand)
- Such is Life in the Tropics (Sebastián Cordero)
- Woodpeckers (José María Cabral)
- Zip and Zap and the Captain's Island (Oskar Santos)
Zeno Mountain Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Short Film
Precious Gem Award
- Bárbara Lennie
- Rossy de Palma
- Silvia Rios Fortun
2016 - 33rd Annual Miami Film Festival
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Audience Award - Best Feature Film
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize
- Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
- Chronic (Michel Franco)
- An Italian Name (Francesca Archibugi)
- A Monster with a Thousand Heads (Rodrigo Plá)
- Happy 140 (Gracia Querejeta)
- I Promise You Anarchy (Julio Hernández Cordón)
- Incident Light (Ariel Rotter)
- Mountains May Depart (Zhangke Jia)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
- One Breath (Christian Zübert)
- Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
- Paulina (Santiago Mitre)
- The Companion (Pavel Giroud)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- The Apostate (Federico Veiroj)
- Truman (Cesc Gay)
- The Memory of Water (Matías Bize)
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Director
Knight Competition Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance
Knight Documentary Achievement Award
- Queen of Thursdays (Orlando Rojas)
- Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper (Liz Garbus)
- Trapped (Dawn Porter)
- Zonda: folclore argentino (Carlos Saura)
Short Film Award (Shorts Competition)
- The Man of My Life (Mélanie Delloye)
- The Anklet (Guillaume Levil)
- Party Girl (Roma Zachemba)
- Najmia (Cristhian Andrews)