past festival award winners

1999 Heartland Film Festival

$50,000 Grand Prize Award (Dramatic Feature)
Wayward Son

Crystal Heart Award winners
The Basket, Best Man in Grass Creek (formerly The Best Man), Climb Against the Odds, The Cracker Man, Forgotten Fires, The Last Good War, Walking Across Egypt, Wayward Son
 

1998 Heartland Film Festival

Crystal Heart Career Achievement Award
Karl Malden

Crystal Heart Award winners
Amy, City at Peace, First Daughter, The Kindness of Strangers, The Light of Darkness, Occidental Encounters, Pola’s March, Puppies for Sale, The Snow Child, Summer of the Monkeys
 

1997 Heartland Film Festival

 Crystal Heart Career Achievement Award
(Posthumous)Jimmy Stewart accepted by Judy Stewart Merrill

Crystal Heart Award winners
Champagne, Riding the Rails, The Spittin’ Image, Soulmates, A Thousand Cranes, The Touch, Visas & Virtues, Walk This Way, Wish Upon a Star
 

 1996 Heartland Film Festival

Crystal Heart Special Achievement Award
Filmmakers David Anspaugh and Angelo Pizzo

Crystal Heart Award winners
Flowers for Charlie, Jirohachi, No Easy Way, Shiloh, Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern, The Water Carrier, Williams Syndrome: A Highly Musical Species
 

1995 Heartland Film Festival

Crystal Heart Career Achievement Award
Screenwriter Horton Foote

Crystal Heart Award winners
Frailejon, Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, Just Like Dad, Listening to Children, The Middle Passage, Whitewash
 

1994 Heartland Film Festival

Crystal Heart Award winners
Eagle Scout, Eternity, Monty, Moving the Mountain, Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy
 

1993 Heartland Film Festival

Crystal Heart Award winners
Contact, A Day at a Time, Hardwood Dreams, The Last Winter, The Make, A New Game, Oh God…Please Don’t Let Me Strike Out!, Shimmer, Tell Them Who We Are, A Truce with Death
 

1992 Heartland Film Festival

Crystal Heart Career Achievement Award
Filmmaker Robert Wise

Crystal Heart Award Winners
Alan & Naomi, Lantern Hill, The Last Breeze of Summer, The Potter’s Meal, The Quarrel, To Render a Life