VICIOUS OLD CAT Lifetime achievement award Ruggero Deodato
	Amongst all the Italian masters of genre, who were shaking the world film scene particularly in the seventies and the eighties, Ruggero Deodato  holds a very special place. His horror movies and thrillers are intense, dynamic and immediate. He's never been afraid to shock and provoke the audience, which often brought him trouble and public outrage, he even had to defend  himself at  the court of justice and make an involuntary three-year pause in filming career. With his excursions into practically all genre he proves an amazing versatility, toughness and independence from movie machinery.
VICIOUS CAT Best feature award Eden Lake (UK, 2008, James Watkins) The award was taken by Finn Atkins.
	Eden Lake is an excellently written and directed social horror in which all the terror and thrill are caused by the human community and not some supernatural power. To be more precise, they are the works of an ethnically mixed group of youngsters who cruelly hunt down an adult couple, probably only or exactly because they represent all that these youngsters are lacking in their own families. Should there be a place called Eden Lake in the UK or not, we most certainly won't be going there. However, is the point of the movie not exactly in the fact that wherever we go, there is an Eden Lake awaiting us?
SPECIAL SLOVENIAN AWARD Sauna (Finland, 2008, A.J. Annila) The award was taken by A.J. Annila.
	The jury decided to give away a special prize that doesn't even exist in the propositions of the Grossmann Film and Wine Festival, namely The Special Slovenian Award. It goes to the Finnish movie Sauna, directed by A.J. Annila. The jury has decided to do so because he offers a solution for the Slovenian-Croatian border dispute over the Bay of Piran. The jury furthermore decided to recommend to the Slovenian Film Fund to invite A.J. Annila to direct the Slovenian version of Sauna.
NECRO CAT Award for outstanding achievements in fantastic/horror cinema Jörg Buttgereit
	Few authors have managed to convey to the silver screen such horrific, yet  at the same time captivating images as the Berlin director Jörg Buttgereit. Already his first effort, that has earned him a rabid cult following in the underground horror scene of the eighties, baffled the censors and was prohibited in many countries, while the sequel was preferably to be obliterated from the face of the Earth. Despite these considerable difficulties, Buttgereit stayed true to his vision and became darker and more morbid with every film he made, he demanded more and more from his audience, but remained fresh and light-years away from the mainstream film-making scene.
SLAK'S VICIOUS CAT Award for best short film Deadspiel (Canada, 2008, Jay Andrew Molloy)	More than twenty years ago George Romero's Day of the Dead touched upon the subject of the usefulness of zombies in our society. After more than three decades Jay Molloy’s Deadspiel brings about true integration of zombies and the bloodthirsty humanity. Through sport, Molloy has overcome the gap between us and the living dead. This event represents a historic turning point, where one of the zombies literally offers a hand in reconciliation, while bloody feasting upon human flesh remains only as a sinful pleasure locked within the minds of  the new, better zombie nation.
VICIOUS CAT WINE CHAMPION Best wine award Pinot Gris 2008, Jeruzalem Ormož The award was taken by Marko Zidarič.
NOISY CAT Best musical documentary award Vlada (Slovenia, 2009, Rudi Uran) The award was taken by Rudi Uran.
	The author of this documentary about the founding member of the legendary band Idoli from Belgrade, the first New Wave pop stars in our former country, managed to steer away from glamorised nostalgia and idolatry of the »golden age«, as well as politically correct fetishisation and normalization of the forced mobility of a cultural emigrant. The story of the musical creativity and personality of Vlada Divljan, set against the backstage of his involuntary odyssey, was shot in a non-intrusive, yet exact, often elyptical narrating rhythm and subtle atmosphere of dark shades of distance, alienation and a sense of being thrown in the world's chaos. At the same time, Divljan's "interactive" authorship of music for this film manages to transform this objected situation into a positive message. By doing so, he has importantly, while not exactly noisy, exceeded the standard  format of a musical documentary.
WINNER OF THE LITTLE WORKSHOP OF HORRORS Turbo Zombies/Turbo zombiji (Slovenia, 2009, Vid Voršič) The award was taken by Vid Voršič.

VICIOUS CAT
Best feature film

VICIOUS OLD CAT
Lifetime achievement
This year's winner is Ruggero Deodato.

NECRO CAT
Award for outstanding achievements in fantastic/horror cinema
This year's winner is Joerg Buttgereit.

SLAK'S VICIOUS CAT
Best short film

NOISY CAT
Best music documentary

VICIOUS CAT WINE CHAMPION
Best wine