"At the 2011 Fantasia Film Festival, "Super" was tied with the documentary "Superheroes" for the AQCC Prize; "For two films that perfectly capture the Zeitgeist of our age and that present elaborate reflections on one of the biggest Americans trends, the AQCC Jury has awarded its best international film prize, in a tie, to the fiction film "Super" by James Gunn and to the documentary "Superheroes" by Michael Barnett, two strong and complementary works."