AFI Fest 2014 Awards and Recap

Here are all the 2014 AFI Fest award winners:

• New Auteurs Critics’ Award: Self Made

• VIZIO Visionary Special Jury Award: The Tribe

• Special Jury Mention for Screenwriting: Güeros (read our Güeros review)

• Special Jury Mention for Cinematography: Violet

• Grand Jury Award for Live Action Short: Buffalo Juggalos

• Grand Jury Award for Animated Short: Yearbook

• Special Jury Mention for Collection: David O’Reilly for Children’s Songs

• Special Jury Mention for Breakthrough Filmmaker: Joe Callander – Gary Has An Aids Scare

• Special Jury Mention for Vision: Kevin Jerome Everson – Sound That

• Special Jury Mention for Outstanding Achievement in Direction: Morgan Knibbe – Shipwreck

• World Cinema Audience Award: Red Army

• New Auteurs Audience Award: Güeros

• American Independents Audience Award: 10,000 Km

• Breakthrough Audience Award: The Midnight Swim

Also, there was some cool events such as the Sophia Loren tribute and we are in the process of posting reviews from the festival - we've already reviewed the Dardenne Brothers'Two Days, One Night, Quentin Dupieux's Reality and Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman, which is already playing in theaters in limited release.