Live from SXSW: The Award Winners!

Welcome to the 2008 SXSW Awards Presentation! With much help from unpaid Cinematintern Willy Goss, we bring you the award winners LIVE!!

6:38pm -- Will announces that there's a pigeon loose inside the building. No awards just yet.

6:42pm -- Goss has some texting issues as the shorts winners are announced. We'll get 'em up ASAP.

6:54pm -- In the documentary competition, They Killed Sister Dorothy takes the grand prize, while a special jury prize goes to Full Battle Rattle.

6:59pm -- Narrative Feature / Special Jury Prize for Cinematography: Explicit Ills. Special Jury for Ensemble: Up with Me. Narrative Grand Jury Prize: Wellness.

7:06pm -- Audience Awards!! (Emerging Visions category) In a Dream. Audience Doco Pick: They Killed Sister Dorothy.

7:10pm -- Audience Award for Narrative Feature: Explicit Ills! Congrats to Mark Webber and company!

After the jump: All the other awards!!



Jury Awards

REEL SHORTS

Special Jury Award - "The Second Line," Director: John Magary.

Winner - (Tie) "Warlord," Director: David Garrett & "Small Apartment," Director: Andrew T. Betzer

ANIMATED SHORTS

Special Jury Award - "I hate you don't touch me or Bat and Hat," Director: Becky James

Winner - "Madame Tulti-Putli," Director: Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Special Jury Award - "Upwards March," Director: Kaveh Nabatian

Winner - "Safari," Director: Catherine Chalmers


SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARD

Winner - "Glory at Sea," Director: Benjamin Zeitlin

MUSIC VIDEOS

Special Jury Award - (TIE) Group Sounds, 'Temporarily in Love,' Director: Randy Scott Slavin & Cornelius, 'Fit Song,' Directors: Keigo Oyamada & Koichiro Tsujikawa

Winner - TV on the Radio," 'Me-I,' Directors: Mixtape Club & Daniel Garcia


TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITION

Special Jury Award - "Inflections," Director: Matthew Campbell

Winner - "Picnic," Director: Wesley Bronez


ON NETWORKS GREENLIGHT AWARD

Best Original Production - "The Guild," Director: Jane Selle Morgan

Best Original Series Idea - "Knock Off," Written: Brandi-Ann Milbradt