Grand Prize and Audience Choice Award Winning Films
| Year | Grand Prize for Best Dramatic Feature | Best Documentary Feature | Vision Award for Best Short Film | Audience Choice Award | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dramatic Feature | Documentary Feature | Short Film | ||||
| 1999 | Wayward Son | – | ||||
| 2000 | The Rising Place | – | ||||
| 2001 | The War Bride | – | ||||
| 2002 | To End All Wars | – | ||||
| 2003 | Saints and Soldiers | – | ||||
| 2004 | Love's Brother | – | ||||
| 2005 | End of the Spear | – | A Kiss on the Nose | Innocent Voices | Earthling | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
| 2006 | Shooting Dogs | The Hip Hop Project | Shade | Shooting Dogs | A Man Named Pearl | I Want to Be a Pilot |
| 2007 | Bella | Hear and Now | Validation | Man in the Chair | Hear and Now | Validation |
| 2008 | Captain Abu Raed | Pray the Devil Back to Hell | Victoria | Captain Abu Raed | Ripple of Hope | Go |
| 2009 | Welcome | P-Star Rising | Bicycle (Jitensha) | Like Dandelion Dust, A Shine of Rainbows (tie) | After the Storm | Grande Drip |
| 2010 | The Space Between | Freedom Riders | The Butterfly Circus | Ways to Live Forever | For Once In My Life | The Butterfly Circus |
| 2011 | Red Dog | Crime After Crime | Thief | Red Dog | Crime After Crime | Sun City Picture House |
| 2012 | Cairo 678 | Rising from Ashes | Head over Heels | TBA | ||
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