Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle Of Dogs’ Wins SXSW Audience Award In Headliners Section

Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle Of Dogs’ Wins SXSW Audience Award In Headliners Section

Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated Isle of Dogs took the Audience Award in the Headliners section at SXSW, a trophy previously won the past three years by such movies as Baby Driver, Demolition and the Sally Field pic Hello, My Name Is Doris.

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Isle of Dogs, which opens Friday, follows a young boy (Koyu Rankin) in Japan looking for his lost dog after all the canine pets have been exiled to a garbage dump. Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig and Tilda Swinton are among those in the ensemble voice-over cast.

Isle of Dogs beat out other headliner titles making their SXSW premiere: Blockers, Boundaries, Final Portrait, Ready Player One, A Quiet Place and Paradox.

Here’s a list of the other audience awards winners:

Narrative Feature Competition
First Match
Director: Olivia Newman

Documentary Feature Competition
TransMilitary
Directors: Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson

Narrative Spotlight
All Square
Director: John Hyams

Documentary Spotlight
The Dawn Wall
Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer

Visions
Profile
Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Midnighters
Upgrade
Director: Leigh Whannell

Episodic
Vida
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, So Yong Kim

24 Beats Per Second
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
Director: Abner Benaim

Global
Virus Tropical
Director: Santiago Caicedo

Festival Favorite
Science Fair
Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster

Excellence in Title Design
#19 – Offf Barcelona 2017
Directors: Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallee