the sundance film festival announced its winners last weekend, which means it's time to track what to see in 2010.
ah, quit your bitchin'... movie-watching is a year-round bizness!
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Sebastien Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Debra Granik, Winter’s Bone
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Mads Brügger, The Red Chapel
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic – David Michôd, Animal Kingdom
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Davis Guggenheim, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
Audience Award: U.s. Dramatic – Josh Radnor, happythankyoumoreplease
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Lucy Walker, Waste Land
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Javier Fuentes-León, Contracorriente
Best of NEXT – Todd Barnes and Brad Barnes, Homewrecker
U.S. Directing Award: Documentary – Leon Gast, Smash His Camera
U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic – Eric Mendelsohn, 3 Backyards
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Christian Frei, Space Tourists
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Juan Carlos Valdivia, Southern District
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, Winter’s Bone
World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Juan Carlos Valdivia, Southern District
U.S. Documentary Editing Award – Penelope Falk, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Joëlle Alexis, A Film Unfinished
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Kirsten Johnson, Laura Poitras, The Oath
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic – Zak Mulligan, Obselidia
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Kate McCullough and Michael Lavelle, His & Hers
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, The Man Next Door
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Diane Bell, Obselidia
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize – Josh Fox, Gasland
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize – Mark Ruffalo, Sympathy For Delicious
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize – Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, Enemies of the People
World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance – Tatiana Maslany in Grown Up Movie Star
Awards for film in the Shorts program were presented at a separate ceremony on Tuesday night. The winners:
Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking – Drunk History
International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – The Six Dollar Fifty Man
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Born Sweet, Can We Talk?, Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No, Quadrangle, Rob and Valentyna in Scotland, Young Love
IMPORTANT NOTE: we all remember a certain winner of last year's winner of the sundance audience award, grand jury prize and special jury prize, right? you know, the third film in sundance history ever to win BOTH the grand jury and special jury prizes AND the ONLY film to EVER to win both audience awards at sundance and toronto?? of course, we remember! it's called precious: based on the novel 'push' by sapphire and it's nominated in pretty much every major category at this year's oscars. dude!!!
