Sundance Awards: And the Winners Are ...
Filed under: Awards, Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie
James is at the awards ceremony, and I'm back here at Cinematical headquarters liveblogging the results. The theme, James tells me, is apparently "cowboy," because William H. Macy is in a cowboy getup.7:20: Macy is apparently doing a "wildly obscure monologue incorporating the titles of all the Sundance films. Macy: "That, my friends, is The Complete History of my Sexual Failures, and the end of my comedic monologue."
7:23: Tony Hale: "nothing says Sundance and independent film like people dancing in covered wagons."
Awards after the jump ...
7:26: Time for the shorts awards ...
International Jury Prize in Shorts: Soft, dir. Simon Ellis
Jury Prize in Shorts: TIE: My Olympic Summer, dir. Daniel Robin and Sikumi, dir. Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.
7:30: Now they're announcing the Alfred P Sloan Memorial prize, which was technically already announced. Sleep Dealer wins this prize, which is for a film that's about technology or science.
7:33: Sundance Director Geoff Gilmore: "Mark my words: this is a class of film makers we will all remember years from now."
7:36: World Cinema Documentary Cinematography Award: Mahmoud al Massad, Recycle
7:41: World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Irena Dol, The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
7:43: World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Nino Kirtadze for Durakovo: Village of Fools
7:44: World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize: Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh
7:46: World Cinema Dramatic Awards:
Special Jury Prize: Blue Eyelids, dir Ernesto Contreras
World Cinema Dramatic Cinematography Award: Askilld Vik Edvardsen, King of Ping Pong
World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting: Samuel Benchetrit, I Always Wanted to be a Gangster
World Cinema Dramatic Directing: Anna Melikyan, Mermaid
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film: The King of Ping Pong
World Cinema Audience Award, Documentary: Man on Wire
World Cinema Audience Award, Dramatic: Captain abu Raed
8:01 Documentary and Dramatic Awards
Documentary Audience Award: Fields of Fuel
Fields of Fuel director Josh Tickell, accepting the award: "May we work together to create a green and sustainable future."
Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness
The Wackness director Jonathan Levine: " I just accepted an award from William H. Macy in a cowboy hat; that is fucking weird. "
Documentary Special Jury Prize: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Dramatic Special Jury Prize for "the Spirit of Independent Cinema": to Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, USA
Dramatic Special Jury Prize: to the entire ensemble cast of Choke
Excellence in Cinematography, Documentary: Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring
Excellence in Cinematography, Dramatic: Ballast, Lol Crawley
Dramatic Special Jury Prize for "the Spirit of Independent Cinema": to Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, USA
Dramatic Special Jury Prize: to the entire ensemble cast of Choke
Excellence in Cinematography, Documentary: Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring
Excellence in Cinematography, Dramatic: Ballast, Lol Crawley
Documentary Editing Award: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Joe Bini
Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David Riker
Documentary Directing Award: Nanette Burnstein, American Teen
Nanette Burnstein: "Megan (one of the subjects of American Teen) left on Tuesday, but she was so bored, she flew back on Friday."
Dramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, Ballast
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: Trouble the Water
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: Trouble the Water
Eugene Jarecki: "It is with our pride, and outrage, that the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary goes to Trouble the Water."
Quentin Tarantino, presenting the Grand Jury Dramatic Award: "In '92, with Reservoir Dogs, on awards night, I got fuck all."
Grand Jury Dramatic Prize: Frozen River
8:36: That's a wrap, folks ... look for reviews of at least some of the awards winners coming soon!
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1-27-2008 @ 10:38AM
Nick said...
Not sure why this wouldn't post last night; however, using your live-blog I was able to announce the Grand Jury Dramatic prize winner to the entire screening line before the festival staff did. You guys kick ass!
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