Sundance. Awards.

The Sundance Film Festival's announced its awards, and I've rounded up the links I could find.

"GCD" denotes an entry here at the Daily; and there'll be more over the next couple of days as the last of the first reviews for these films trickle in. And an index is in the works, too.

Updated.

• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water. GCD.

• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Courtney Hunt's Frozen River. GCD.

• World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary: James Marsh's Man on Wire - also the winner of the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary.

• World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic: Jens Jonsson's King of Ping Pong - which also won the World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic for Askild Vik Edvardsen.

• Audience Award: Documentary: Josh Tickell's Fields of Fuel.

• Audience Award: Dramatic: Jonathan Levine's The Wackness. GCD.

• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic: Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed.

• Directing Award: Documentary: Nanette Burstein for American Teen. GCD.

• Directing Award: Dramatic: Lance Hammer for Ballast - which also picked up the Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic for Lol Crawley. GCD.

• World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary: Nino Kirtadze for Durakovo: Village of Fools.

• World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic: Anna Melikyan for Mermaid.

• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Alex Rivera and David Riker for Sleep Dealer - which has also won the Alfred P Sloan Prize. GCD.

• World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Samuel Benchetrit for I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster.

• Documentary Editing Award: Joe Bini for Roman Polanski:Wanted and Desired. GCD.

• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Irena Dol for The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins. GCD.

• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary: Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring for Patti Smith: Dream of Life. GCD.

• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary: Mahmoud al Massad for Recycle.

• World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic: Ernesto Contreras for Blue Eyelids. GCD.

• Special Jury Prize: Documentary: Lisa F Jackson for Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.

• Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence: Chusy (Anthony Haney-Jardin) for Anywhere, USA.

• Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast: Choke. GCD.

• 2008 Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: Daniel Robin's My Olympic Summer (go here and click #4) and Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's Sikumi (On the Ice; go here and click #9).

• International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking: Simon Ellis's Soft.

• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking:
  • Rob Meyer's Aquarium.

  • Xuan Jiang's August 15th.

  • Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega's La Corona (see Brian Darr's take, too).

  • Ryosuke Ogawa's Oiran Lyric.

  • Nash Edgerton's Spider (go here and click #10).

  • Nicolas Provost's Suspension.

  • The Vikings' W.

And from the press release: "Now in its twelfth year, the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award was created to honor and support emerging filmmakers - one each from the United States, Japan, Europe and Latin America - who possess the originality, talent and vision to be celebrated as we look to the future of international cinema. The winning filmmakers and projects for 2008 are Alejandro Fernandez Almendras from Chile with Huacho; Braden King from the United States with Here; Aiko Nagatsu from Japan with Apoptosis; and Radu Jude from Romania with The Happiest Girl in the World."

Update: Howard Karren has a special awards report at In the Company of Glenn.

Posted by dwhudson at January 27, 2008 7:04 AM