BIFF 2009 awards
| Best Student Film | In the Dark Alex and Sarah Fazelli |
| Best New Filmmaker | The Prince of Broadway Sean Baker |
| Best Colorado Film | They Killed Sister Dorothy Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher |
| Best Environmental Film | American Outrage Beth and George Gage |
| Best Animated Film | Sita Sings the Blues Nina Paley |
| Best Music Documentary | Anvil: The Story of Anvil Sacha Gervasi |
| Best Short Film | Tag Natalya Uglitskikh |
| Best Short Documentary | Smile Pinki Megan Mylan |
| Best Feature Documentary | Pirate for the Sea Ron Colby and Patricia Van Ryker |
| Best Feature Film | Nothing But the Truth Rod Lurie |
| Best Dramatice Comedy | Sunshine Cleaning Christine Jeffs |
| Grand Prize | Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense-Miller |
BIFF films at the Academy Awards
Each year BIFF is proud to have presented films that have gone on to win recognition at the Academy Awards. Congratulations to the following Academy Award winners and nominees.
award winners
| Foreign Language Film | Smile Pinky |
award nominees
| Foreign Language Film | Revanche |
| Documentary Short | The Conscience of Nhem En |
| Short Film (live action) | New Boy |
Rod Lurie, winner of Best Feature Film (Nothing But the Truth), with BIFF Directors Robin and Kathy Beeck.
Sean Baker, winner of Best New Filmmaker (The Prince of Broadway).