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At Sundance, "Winter's Bone," "Restrepo" and "Animal Kingdom" take home the top prizes.
Sundance put a punctuation mark on this year’s festival with their awards announcement — emcee (and “The Perfect Host” star) David Hyde Pierce rapped the name of nearly every festival film over the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow.” (Hyde Pierce joked, “it was Redford’s idea.”) Here are the winners:
Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic Film: Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone” (Roadside Attractions picked up the film and will likely distribute in the summer.)
Special Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic Film: Mark Ruffalo’s “Sympathy for Delicious”
Directing Award, Dramatic Category: Eric Mendelsohn for “3 Backyards”
Directing Award, Documentary Category: Leon Gast for “Smash His Camera”
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for “Winter’s Bone”
Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s “Restrepo”
Special Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary: Josh Fox’s natural gas drilling doc “GasLand”
Audience Award for a U.S. Dramatic Film: Josh Radnor’s multi-stranded romantic comedy “HappyThankYouMorePlease”
Audience Award for U.S. Documentary: Davis Guggenheim’s public education doc “Waiting for Superman” (Paramount will be distributing the film in the U.S.)
The U.S. Documentary Editing Award: Penelope Falk for “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” (Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern accepted on her behalf.)
The Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Dramatic: Zach Mulligan for “Obselidia”
The Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary: Laura Poitras and Kirsten Johnson for “The Oath”
The Best of NEXT: Todd and Brad Barnes’ “Homewrecker” (already available on YouTube as a rental)
World Cinema Jury Prize for Dramatic Film: David Michôd’s Australian crime thriller “Animal Kingdom” (Star Joel Edgerton accepted on his behalf.)
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic/Breakout Performance - Tatiana Maslany for Adriana Maggs’ “Grown Up Movie Star”
World Cinema Jury Prize for Documentary: Mads Brügger’s “The Red Chapel”
Special Jury Prize for World Cinema Documentary: Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath’s “Enemies of the People”
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Javier Fuentes-León’s Peruvian drama “Contracorriente (Undertow)” (picked up in the U.S. by Wolfe Releasing)
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: Lucy Walker’s “Waste Land”
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic: Juan Carlos Valdivia for the Bolivian drama “Zona Sur (Southern District)”
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Christian Frei for “Space Tourists”
The World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Juan Carlos Valdivia for the Bolivian drama “Zona Sur (Southern District)”
The World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Joelle Alexis for “A Film Unfinished” (Director Yael Hersonski accepted on her behalf.)
The World Cinema Cinematography Award for Dramatic: Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat for the Argentinean drama “The Man Next Door”
The World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary: Michael Lavelle and Kate McCullough for “His and Hers”
Acquisitions: In other good news for “Winter’s Bone,” the widely lauded film, which James Rocchi praised here, sold to Roadside Attractions. Meanwhile, IFC Films picked up the controversial Michael Winterbottom adaptation of Jim Thompson’s noir “The Killer Inside Me” for a reported $1.5 million.
All of IFC.com’s Sundance coverage can be found here.
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