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OUTFEST HAS the most extensive awards program of any gay and lesbian film festival, bestowing 14 awards with cash prizes for film and video excellence. Three professional juries acknowledge excellence in American features, international features and documentary features. In addition, five audience awards are selected by post-screening ballots. Our three special programming awards include Outstanding Artistic Achievement, Outstanding Emerging Talent, and the Freedom Award.
OUTFEST 1999 Audience Awards:
| OUTstanding Narrative Feature(tie): | |
| CHUTNEY
POPCORN directed by Nisha Ginatra |
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| OUTstanding Documentary Feature: | |
| AFTER STONEWALL directed by John Scagliotti |
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| OUTstanding Narrative Short: | |
| BABY STEPS directed by Geoffrey Nauffts |
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| OUTstanding Documentary Short: | |
| TOMBOY directed by Donna Carter |
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| OUTstanding Narrative Video: | |
| RICK AND STEVE: THE HAPPIEST
GAY COUPLE IN THE WORLD directed by Q. Allan Brocka |
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| OUTstanding Documentary Video: | |
| LIVING WITH PRIDE: RUTH
ELLIS @ 100 directed by Yvonne Welbon |
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Special Programming Awards:
| Emerging Talent: | |
| Benjamin and Dominik Reding, Directors, OI! WARNING | |
| Jim Fall, Director, TRICK | |
| Artistic Achievement: | |
| Scott King for TREASURE ISLAND | |
Grand Jury Awards:
| OUTstanding American Narrative Feature: | |
| BLIND
FAITH directed by Ernest Dickerson |
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| OUTstanding International Narrative Feature: | |
| HEAD ON directed by Anna Kokkinos |
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| OUTstanding Documentary Feature: | |
| THE MOST UNKNOWABLE THING
directed by Mary Patierno |
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| OUTstanding Screenwriting: | |
| HIT AND RUNAWAY directed by Christopher Livingston |
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| OUTstanding Actor in a Feature Film: | |
| Charles S. Dutton, BLIND FAITH | |
| OUTstanding Actress in a Feature Film: | |
| Mariel Hemingway, THE SEX MONSTER | |
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