Award list usually don’t get the warmest reception when they become official, but I do think they are a very good option to cover a country. And also genre. There was a call for lists that cover more recent global genre movies and that is why, as moderator, I suggested the last-minute inclusion of the award-lists of two of the oldest genre-festivals in the wolrd, Sitges and Fantasporto. Looking at the last 5 winners of Fantasporto, I just know that list can make some niche-users very happy if it would be official:
2014 Miss Zombie Sabu Japan
2015 Liza, a rókatündér Károly Ujj Mészáros Hungary
2016 The Lure Agnieszka Smoczynska Poland
2017 Realive Mateo Gil Spain
2018 Ravenous Robin Aubert Canada
The main interest in awards seem to be Cannes and Oscars. As for my personal choice I’ll only go for Cannes. A list that just has “all nominations” is never a good list in my opinion. But the Grand Prix (Cannes 2nd prize) is a no-brainer in my book!… and then we might as well also go for the Jury (3rd) prize, so I voted for that too.
I also gave my vote to the Japanese award list.