El Dorado Film Festival 2024

Best of Fest - Smoke, directed by Joshua Gallas
Best Feature - Shudderbugs, directed by Johanna Putnam
Best Comedic Short - They Grow Up So Fast, directed by John Beach
Best Narrative Short - Florence in Customer Care, directed by Jordan Sommerland & Cory Stonebrook
Best Arkansas Short - Mama Love, directed by Mary McDade
Best Documentary - The Last Thing Lost, directed by Jake Siam Solomon

El Dorado Film Festival 2018

Best of Fest (Audience Favorite) - Bingo Night directed by Brooklyn Nicole Alexander
Best Feature - Winter Ridge directed by Dom Lenoir
Best Comedic Short - How it Feels to be Hungover Hur Det Kännsdirected by Viktor Hertz
Best Narrative Short - Ainhoa Short Film directed by Iván Sáinz-Pardo
Best Student Made Short - O-Puncha directed by Adam Hansen
Best Arkansas Made Short - Deluca's Deluca's Pizza directed by Scarlett Gooch
Best Actor - Jean-Marc Barr, Whoever Was Using This Bed
Best Actress - Sarine Sofair, The Inuring
Best Cinematography - Ainhoa Short Film
Best Director - James Hughes, The Inuring
Best Sound - Behnam Moayerian, The Fox
Best Editing - Alexander La Cock, O-Puncha

EL DORADO FILM FESTIVAL 2017

  1. Best of Fest - Taylor Doler, Candyland

  2. Best Director - Chris King, Birthday

  3. Best Screenplay - He Could've Gone Pro, McGhee Monteith

  4. Best Actress - Jennifer Pierce Mathus, Door in the Woods

  5. Best Actor - Chris Evans, Candyland

  6. Best Editing - Annie Waits

  7. Best Visual Effects - Embers & Dust

  8. Best Cinematography - Lightning in the Hand 

  9. Road to El Dorado Foreign Film - Henry K. Novalls, Sweet Things

  10. Best Comedic Short - Shy Guys

  11. Best Dramatic Short - Chyanti

  12. Best Feature Film - And Then I Go

  13. Best Arkansas Made Film - Into the Green

  14. Best Oxford American Southern Made Film - Last Light

EL DORADO FILM FESTIVAL 2016

  1. Best of Fest - Lars Klevberg, POLAROID short film

  2. Best Director - Lars Klevberg, POLAROID short film

  3. Best Screenplay - Tracy Facelli, How I Got Made

  4. Best Actress - Katie May Dunford, Heaven's Floor

  5. Best Actor - Alex Dafnis, Polterguys

  6. Best Editing - Brent Maze and Aliza Brugger, The Music Box

  7. Best Cinematography - Kyle Fallon, The Fisherman

  8. Best Music - BROKE DICK DOG

  9. Best Sound Design - Inger Elise Holm, POLAROID short film

  10. Best Production Design - Jen Dunlap, MA

  11. Road to El Dorado Foreign Film - Maya

  12. Best Comedic Short - Natural Insemination

  13. Best Dramatic Short - Rainbow Party

  14. Best Feature Film - The Arbalest

  15. Best Documentary - The Port of Indecision

  16. Best Arkansas Made Film - Throwers

  17. Best Oxford American Southern Made film - Jackdaw: A Short Film

EL DORADO FILM FESTIVAL 2015

  1. Best of Fest - Best of Seven, Jonnie Stapleton & Domenico Grasso

  2. Best Feature Film - Valley Inn, Kim Swink

  3. Best Dramatic Short - Steven Caught a Star, Michiel ten Kleij

  4. Best Comedic Short - Good Hands, Francisco Bendomir

  5. Best Southern Made - Shotgun, Maverick Moore

  6. Best Director - Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer, Zsofika

  7. Best Cinematography - Joel Froome, The Philosopher King

  8. Best Editing - Ian Buchan, Gas

  9. Best Actress - Jordan Scott, Valley Inn

  10. Best Actor - Albert Delpy, Michel

  11. Best Screenplay - Frank Thurmond, The Dealer's Tale

  12. Road to El Dorado Award for Best Foreign Film - Parrot, Craig Foster