Festivals

Sundance Film Festival 2010

Audiences and Juries Split on Top Prize Winners

Park City, UT -– Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone" captured both the dramatic competition grand jury prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival closing ceremony, but an electic mix of films shared the spotlight, including the war documentary “Restrepo”, the comedy “HappyThankYouMorePlease”, and the school-system documentary “Waiting for Superman”.

Directed by Debra Granik, “Winter’s Bone” centers on a girl from the Ozarks who tries to keep her family together while tracking down her meth-dealing father. In “Restrepo,” which won the documentary competition grand jury prize, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger spent a year with one platoon in what is billed as the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

The audience awards for U.S. films went to Davis Guggenheim's documentary "Waiting for Superman", a scathing indictment of the U.S. educational system, and Josh Radnor's ensemble comedy drama "HappyThankYouMorePlease". Among World Cinema entries, the audience winners were Lucy Walker's documentary "Waste Land", profiling international art star Vik Muniz as he interacts with garbage pickers in the world’s largest landfill in Rio de Janeiro, and Javier Fuentes-Leon's "Contacorriente", an unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside.

The World Cinema grand jury prizes went to Mads Brugger's documentary "The Red Chapel", about a journalist, a self-proclaimed spastic and a comedian sneaking into North Korea, and David Michod's drama "The Animal Kingdom", about a 17-year-old boy trying to navigate the Melbourne criminal underworld.


THE COMPLETE 2010 AWARD WINNERS

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic)--"Winter's Bone" (Debra Granik)
Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)--"Restrepo" (Sebastien Junger, Tim Heterington)
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic)--"Animal Kingdom" (David Michod)
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)--"The Red Chapel" (Mads Brugger)
Audience Award (Dramatic)--"happythankyoumoreplease" (Josh Radnor)
Audience Award (Documentary)--"Waiting for Superman" (Davis Guggenheim)
Audience World Cinema (Dramatic)--"Contracorriente" (Javier Fuentes-Leonm)
Audience World Cinema (Documentary)--"Waste Land" (Lucy Walker)
U.S. Directing Award (Dramatic)--"3 Backyards" (Eric Mendelsohn)
U.S. Directing Award (Documentary)--"Smash His Camera" (Leon Gast)
World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic)--"Southern District" (Juan Carlos Valdivia)
World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary)--"Space Tourists" (Christian Frei)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award--"Winter's Gone" (Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini)
World Cinema Screenwriting Award--"Southern District" (Juan Carlos Valdivia)
U.S. Documentary Editing Award -- "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" (Penelope Falk)
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award -- "A Film Unfinished" (Joelle Alexis)
Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Dramatic)--"Obselidia" (Zak Mulligan)
Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Documentary)--"The Oath" (Kirsten Johnson, Laura Poitras)
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic)--"The Man Next Door" (Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat)
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary)--"His and Hers" (Kate McCullough, Michael Lavelle)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance--Tatiana Maslany ("Break Out Movie Star")
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize-- "Enemies of the People" (Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath)
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize--"Sympathy for Delicious" (Mark Ruffalo)
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize--"Gasland" (Josh Fox)
Alfred P. Sloane Feature Film Prize --"Obselidia" (Diane Bell)
Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking--"Drunk History"
International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking-- "The Six Dollar Fifty Man"
Short Filmmaking (Honorable Mention)--
"Born Sweet, Can We Talk?"
"Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No"
"Quadrangel"
"Rob and Valentyna in Scotland"
"Young Love"


For more on these films, and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, go to the Sundance Film Festival Site.



THE COMPLETE 2009 AWARD WINNERS

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic)--"Push: Based on The Novel by Sapphire" (Lee Daniels)
Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)--"We Live The Public" (Ondi Timoner)
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic)--"The Maid (La Nana)" (Sebastian Silva/Chile)
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Documentary)--"Rough Aunties" (Kim Longinotto/United Kingdom)
Audience Award (Dramatic)--"Push: Based on The Novel by Sapphire" (Lee Daniels)
Audience Award (Documentary)--"The Cove" (Louie Psihoyos)
Audience World Cinema (Dramatic)--"An Education" (Lone Scherfig/United Kingdom)
Audience World Cinema (Documentary)--"Afghan Star" (Havana Marking/Afghanistan)
U.S. Directing Award (Dramatic)--"Sin Nombre" (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
U.S. Directing Award (Documentary)--"El General" (Natalia Almada)
World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic)--"Five Minutes Of Heaven" (Oliver Hirschbiegel/United Kingdom)
World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary)--"Afghan Star" (Havana Marking/Afghanistan)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award--"Paper Heart" (Nicholas Jasenovec)
World Cinema Screenwriting Award--"Five Minutes Of Heaven" (Oliver Hirschbiegel/United Kingdom)
U.S. Documentary Editing Award -- "Sergio" (Greg Barker)
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award -- "Bruma VJ" (Anders Ostergaard/Denmark)
Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Dramatic)--"Sin Nombre" (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
Excellence in Cinematography Award (U.S. Documentary)--"The September Issue" (R.J. Cutler)
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic)--"An Education" (Lone Scherfig/United Kingdom)
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary)--"Big River Man" (John Maringouin/United Kingdom)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Acting--Catalina Saavedra ("The Maid (La Nana)"/Chile)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Originality--"Louise-Michel" (Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern/France)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize-- "Tibet In Song" (Ngawang Choephel/Tibet)
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Acting--Mo'Nique ("Push: Based on The Novel by Sapphire")
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for The Spirit Of Independence--"Humpday" (Lynn Shelton)
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize--"Good Hair" (Jeff Stilson)
Alfred P. Sloane Prize --"Adam" (Max Mayer)
Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking-- "Short Term 12" (Destin Daniel Cretton)
Short Filmmaking (Honorable Mention)--
"Omelette" (Nadejda Koseva/Bulgaria)
"Western Spaghetti" (PES/U.S.A.)
"The Attack of The Robots From Nebula-f" (Chema Garcia Ibarra/Spain)
"Treevenge" (Jason Eisener/Canada)
"Jerrycan" (Julius Avery/Australia)
"Protect You + Me" (Brady Corbet /U.S.A.)
"I Live In The Woods" (Max Winston/U.S.A.)
"Love You More" (Sam Taylor-Wood/United Kingdom)