Golden Space Needle History 2010-2019
2010
Best Film - The Hedgehog (dir. Mona Achache, France)
Best Director - Debra Granik (Winter's Bone, USA)
Best Actress - Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone, USA)
Best Actor - Luis Tosar (Cell 211, Spain)
Best Short - Ormie (dir. Rob Silvestri, Canada)
Best Documentary - Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life (dir. Karen Stanton, USA), Waste Land (dir. Lucy Walker, UK)
Tribute - Edward Norton
Emerging Masters - Mohamed Al-Daradji, Ana Kokkinos, Valery Todorovsky
2011
Best Film - Paper Birds (dir. Emilia Aragon, Spain)
Best Director - Larysa Kondracki (The Whistleblower, Canada/Germany)
Best Actress - Natasha Petrovic (As If I Am Not There, Ireland)
Best Actor - Bill Skarsgard (Simple Simon, Sweden)
Best Short - The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, USA)
Best Documentary - To Be Heard (dir. Amy Sultan, Roland Legiardia-Laura, Edwin Martinez, and Deborah Shaffer, USA)
Tribute - Ewan McGregor
Emerging Masters - Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Reha Erdem
2012
Best Film - Any Day Now (dir. Travis Fine, USA)
Best Director - Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild, USA)
Best Actress - Jamie Chung (Eden, USA)
Best Actor - Alan Cumming (Any Day Now, USA)
Best Short - CatCam (dir. Seth Kael, USA)
Best Documentary - The Invisible War (dir. Kirby Dick, USA)
Tribute - Sissy Spacek, William Friedkin
Emerging Masters - Andrea Arnold, Alain Gomis
2013
Best Film - Fanie Fourie's Lobola (dir. Henk Pretorius, South Africa)
Best Director - Nabil Ayouch (Horses of God, Morocco)
Best Actress - Samantha Morton (Decoding Annie Parker, USA)
Best Actor - James Cromwell (Still Mine, Canada)
Best Short - Spooners (dir. Bryan Horch, USA)
Best Documentary - 20 Feet From Stardom (dir. Morgan Neville, USA)
Tribute - Kyle MacLachlan
2014
Best Film - Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater, USA)
Best Director - Richard Linklater (Boyhood, USA)
Best Actress - Patricia Arquette (Boyhood, USA)
Best Actor - Dawid Ogrodnik (Life Feels Good, Poland)
Best Short - Fool's Day (dir. Cody Blue Snider, USA)
Best Documentary - Keep On Keepin' On (dir. Alan Hicks, USA)
Tribute - Laura Dern, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Quincy Jones
2015
Best Film - Dark Horse (dir. James Napier Robertson, New Zealand)
Best Director - Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, USA)
Best Actress - Nina Hoss (Phoenix, Germany)
Best Actor - Cliff Curtis (Dark Horse, New Zealand)
Best Short - Even the Walls (dir. Sarah Kuck, Saman Maydani, USA)
Best Documentary - Romeo is Bleeding (dir. Jason Zeldes, USA)
Tribute - Kevin Bacon
2016
Best Film - Captain Fantastic (dir. Matt Ross, USA)
Best Director - Javier Ruiz Caldera (Spy Time, Spain)
Best Actress - Vicky Hernandez (Between Sea and Land, Colombia)
Best Actor - Rolf Lassgard (A Man Called Ove, Sweden)
Best Short - Alive & Kicking: The Soccer Grannies of South Africa (dir. Lara-Ann de Wet, USA/South Africa)
Best Documentary - Gleason (dir. Clay Tweel, USA)
Tribute - Viggo Mortensen
2017
Best Film - At the End of the Tunnel (dir. Rodrigo Grande, Spain)
Best Director - Rodrigo Grande (At the End of the Tunnel , Spain)
Best Actress - Lene Cecilia Sparrok (Sami Blood, Sweden)
Best Actor - David Johns (I, Daniel Blake, UK)
Best Short - Defend the Sacred (dir. Kyle Bell, USA)
Best Documentary - Dolores (dir. Peter Bratt, USA)
Tribute - Anjelica Huston
2018
Best Film - Eighth Grade (dir. Bo Burnham, USA)
Best Director - Gustav Möller (The Guilty, Denmark)
Best Actress - Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade , USA)
Best Actor - Miguel Ángel Solá (The Last Suit, Sweden)
Best Short - Emergency (dir. Carey Williams, USA)
Best Documentary - Won't You Be My Neighbor? (dir. Morgan Neville, USA)
Tribute - Ethan Hawke
2019
Best Film - Tel Aviv on Fire (dir. Sameh Zoabi, Luxembourg/France/Israel/Belgium)
Best Director - Ulaa Salim (Sons of Denmark, Denmark)
Best Actress - Damla Sönmez (Sibel, Turkey/France/Germany/Luxembourg)
Best Actor - Julius Weckauf (All About Me, Germany)
Best Short - Stepdaddy (dir. Lisa Steen, USA)
Best Documentary - We Are the Radical Monarchs (dir. Linda Goldstein Knowlton, USA)
Tribute - Regina Hall