The winners are in! Come Oscar season, we need to look out for Celeste and Jesse Forever, The Surrogate, and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
- Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - The House I Live In
- Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
- World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - The Law in These Parts
- World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - The Invisible War
- Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - The Surrogate
- World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Searching for Sugar Man
- World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Valley of Saints
- Best of NEXT Audience Award - Sleepwalk with Me
- U.S. Directing Award: Documentary - The Queen of Versailles
- U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic - Middle Of Nowhere
- World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - 5 Broken Cameras
- World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Teddy Bear
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Safety Not Guaranteed
- World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Young & Wild
- U.S. Documentary Editing Award - Detropia
- World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Indie Game: The Movie
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - Chasing Ice
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
- World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Putin's Kiss
- World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - My Brother the Devil
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change - Love Free or Die
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing - Smashed and Nobody Walks
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - The Surrogate
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision - Can
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit - Searching for Sugar Man
- Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters
