January 31, 2010

The Sundance Film Festival gives out its awards...

...and here they are:

Grand Jury Prize (U.S. Dramatic): “Winter’s Bone”
Grand Jury Prize (U.S. Documentary): “Restrepo”
World Cinema Jury Prize (Dramatic): “Animal Kingdom”
World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary): “The Red Chapel”
Audience Award (Dramatic): “happythankyoumoreplease”
Audience Award (Documentary): “Waiting for Superman”
World Cinema Audience Award (Dramatic): “Undertow”
World Cinema Audience Award (Documentary): “Wasteland”
Directing Award (Dramatic): Eric Mendelsohn, “3 Backyards”
Directing Award (Documentary): Leon Gast, “Smash His Camera”
World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic): Juan Carlos Valdivia, “Southern District”
World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary): Christian Frei, “Space Tourists”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini, “Winter’s Bone”
World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Juan Carlos Valdivia, “Southern District”
Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): “Sympathy for Delicious”
Special Jury Prize (Documentary): “Gasland”
World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): Tatiana Maslany, for her performance in “Grown-Up Movie Star”
World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Documentary): “Enemies of the People”
Cinematography Award (Dramatic): Zak Mulligan, “Obselidia”
Cinematography Award (Documentary): Kirsten Johnson and Laura Poitras, “The Oath”
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic): Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, “The Man Next Door”
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary): Kate McCullough and Michael Lavelle, “His & Hers”
Documentary Editing Award: Penelope Falk, “Joan Rivers—A Piece Of Work”
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Joëlle Alexis, “A Film Unfinished”
Alfred P. Sloan Prize: “Obselidia”
NEXT Award: “Homewrecker”

-The two films that seemed to get the best reviews out of the festival were Blue Valentine and Restrepo, so it's a bit surprising to see the former not get anything, but that happens at Sundance a lot...thoughts?

9 comments:

  1. Overall, I think it sounded like an above average festival, with a lot that could make money in theaters, but not the true return to indie film making they hyped it up to be...

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  2. Yea I guess so, I think there are no pure indie films like b4, I mean you can not be indie an hire a Big Superstar like we see nowadays in the indie films, like they dont want to take risk??

    Joey, About this sundance edition: what happened to "the kids are al right" and "Runaways" were there in competition 2? didnt get nothing, they were so far my favs...

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  3. Neither were in competition. They were just premieres...

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  4. Thanks Joey! I wasnt sure!
    so what are ur thoughts on Winters bone... so far I liked what I could see, just a few scenes...

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  5. No problem sir.

    It sounds like it has major potential.

    The films I'm most interested in Myles and I covered in our Sundance Podcast (#10 if you're looking for it), but the #1 for me to keep tabs on is Blue Valentine. I see it becoming something special...

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  6. thats perfect, thankz, Ill check it out..

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  7. Sure thing. Here's the link: http://www.awardscircuit.com/Podcasts/podcast10_sundancefilmfestival.html

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