Chlotrudis Award for Best Film

The Chlotrudis Award for Best Film is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the film that is voted as the best by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Director
1994	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Stephan Elliott
	Bullets Over Broadway	Woody Allen
	Little Women	Gillian Armstrong
	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino
	Vanya on 42nd Street	Louis Malle
1995	Dead Man Walking	Tim Robbins
	Amateur	Hal Hartley
	Babe	Chris Noonan
	Jeffrey	Christopher Ashley
	The Secret of Roan Inish	John Sayles
	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee
1996	Sling Blade	Billy Bob Thornton
	Beautiful Thing	Hettie MacDonald
	Big Night	Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott
	Fargo	Joel Coen
	Marvin's Room	Jerry Zaks
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
	The Full Monty	Peter Cattaneo
	Hollow Reed	Angela Pope
	Shall We Dance?	Masayuki Suo
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan
	The Winter Guest	Alan Rickman
1998	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Elizabeth	Shekhar Kapur
	Happiness	Todd Solondz
	High Art	Lisa Cholodenko
	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
	The Opposite of Sex	Don Roos
1999	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	After Life	Hirokazu Koreeda
	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
	Boys Don't Cry	Kimberly Peirce
	The Iron Giant	Brad Bird
	Rushmore	Wes Anderson
	The Winslow Boy	David Mamet

2000s

Year	Film	Director
2000	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky
	Beau Travail	Claire Denis
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
	Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier
	The Five Senses	Jeremy Podeswa
	Judy Berlin	Eric Mendelsohn
	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
2001	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
	Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch
	Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
	Amores Perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	The Circle	Jafar Panahi
	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	Yi Yi	Edward Yang
2002	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	Donnie Darko	Richard Kelly
	The Piano Teacher	Michael Haneke
	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Phillip Noyce
	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Jill Sprecher
	Y Tu Mamá También	Alfonso Cuarón
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	28 Days Later	Danny Boyle
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
	Lilya 4-Ever	Lukas Moodysson
	Spellbound	Jeffrey Blitz
	The Station Agent	Tom McCarthy
	The Triplets of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet
2004	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	Kim Ki-duk
	The Trilogy (On the Run, An Amazing Couple and After the Life)	Lucas Belvaux
	Bad Education	Pedro Almodóvar
	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Tsai Ming-liang
	Last Life in the Universe	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
	Moolaadé	Ousmane Sembène
	The Return	Andrey Zvyagintsev
2005	Capote	Bennett Miller
	2046	Wong Kar-wai
	The Best of Youth	Marco Tullio Giordana
	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
	Me and You and Everyone We Know	Miranda July
	Mysterious Skin	Gregg Araki
2006	Caché	Michael Haneke
	Duck Season	Fernando Eimbcke
	Half Nelson	Ryan Fleck
	Inland Empire	David Lynch
	Shortbus	John Cameron Mitchell
	Sorry, Haters	Jeff Stanzler
2007	Once	John Carney
	Linda Linda Linda	Nobuhiro Yamashita
	The Lives of Others	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Protagonist	Jessica Yu
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008	The Edge of Heaven	Fatih Akın
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	Cristian Mungiu
	Happy-Go-Lucky	Mike Leigh
	Let the Right One In	Tomas Alfredson
	My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	35 Shots of Rum	Claire Denis
	The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans	Werner Herzog
	Still Walking	Hirokazu Koreeda
	The White Ribbon	Michael Haneke

2010s

Year	Film	Director
2010	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
	I Killed My Mother	Xavier Dolan
	Jack Goes Boating	Philip Seymour Hoffman
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	Mother	Bong Joon-ho
	Undertow	Javier Fuentes-León

External links

• Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
• Chlotrudis Awards at IMDB