The festival is once again loaded with awards, shows, and the best national and international films.
Official Fantastic In-Competition Selection
The Kong
Awards that distinguish within the Official Fantastic Competition Selection:
Best Film Award
Special Jury Prize
Best Director Award
Best Male Performance Award
Best Female Performance Award
Best Screenplay Award
Best Photography Award
Best Special Effects Award
Best Music Award
Noves Visions
Best Film Award
Best Direction Award
Best Short Noves Visions Petit Format Award
Critics Awards
Awarded by the Catalan Association of Cinematographic Critics and Writers, which distinguishes within the Official Fantastic Competition Selection (SOFC):
José Luis Guarner Award for Best Film
Citizen Kane Award for Best First Feature
SOFC Best Short Film Award (®Academy Awards shortlist)
Anima't
Award for Best Animated Short Film (®Academy Awards shortlist)
Award for Best Animated Feature Film
Blood Window
Best Ibero-American production film
Méliès d'Argent Awards
Award for Best European Production Feature Film
Award for Best European Production Short Film
Audience Awards
Best SOFC Movie
Best Panorama Movie
Best Movie Midnight X-Treme
Best Focus Asia Film (Asian-produced film)
Brigadoon Paul Naschy Award
Award for the best fantastic short film presented in this section
Awards Carnet Jove
SOFC Best Feature Film Award
Sitges Documenta Best Film Award
SGAE Nova Autoria Awards
They distinguish short films from academic institutions specialized in cinema and audiovisual production:
Best Direction Award
Best Original Screenplay Award
Best Original Music Award
Nosferatu Award
Retrospective honorary distinction, awarded to national and European cinematographic personalities.
Time Machine Award
Recognition of the lifetime achievement of film personalities and/or institutions that have had a special relationship with the festival and, above all, with the fantastic genre.
Grand Honorary Prize
It distinguishes cinematographic personalities with a significant and outstanding career within the history of cinema and, especially, in the fantastic genre.
Honorary Maria Award
Prize awarded for the work of a career in a technical field of fantastic cinematography.