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SUNDANCE ’11 WINNERS ANNOUNCED: “LIKE CRAZY” & “HOW TO DIE IN OREGON” TOP LIST
The Sundance Film Festival announced its jury prize winners this evening with Drake Doremus‘ examination of a long-distance relationship, Like Crazy, taking home the Grand Jury Prize. The film’s lead actress, Felicity Jones, also won a Special Jury acting prize. Other top winners include Peter D. Richardson‘s documentary, How to Die in Oregon for Grand Jury doc prize; Circumstance won the dramatic Audience Award while Buck won the audience award for documentary. Sean Durkin won the narrative best directing prize for Martha Marcy May Marlene and best doc directing went to Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Read the complete list of winners below. And go to our dedicated Sundance page for full coverage from the fest.
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Like Crazy, Drake Doremus
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
How to Die in Oregon, director Peter D. Richardson
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Happy, Happy, director Anne Sewitsky
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
Hell and Back Again, director Danfung Dennis
Dramatic Audience Award:
Circumstance, writer-director Maryam Keshavarz
Documentary Audience Award:
Buck, director Cindy Meehl
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
Kinyarwanda, writer-director Alrick Brown
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award:
Senna, director Asik Kapadia
The Best of NEXT:
to.get.her, writer-director Eric Dunton
Directing Award, Dramatic:
Martha Marcy May Marlene, director Sean Durkin
Directing Award, Documentary:
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, director Jon Foy
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic:
Tyrannosaur, writer-director Paddy Considine
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary:
Project Nim, director James Marsh
Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award:
Another Happy Day
World Cinema Screenwriting Award:
Restoration
Documentary Editing Award:
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award:
Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic:
Pariah
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary:
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Dramatic:
All Your Dead Ones
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary:
Hell and Back Again
Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic:
Like Crazy, actress Felicity Jones
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic:
Another Earth, co-writer-director Mike Cahill
Special Jury Prize: Documentary:
BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer’s Journey, director Constance Marks
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary:
Position Among The Stars, director Leonard Retel Helmrich
World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic:
Tyrannosaur (cast)
Alfred P. Sloan Prize:
Another Earth, directed by Mike Cahill
Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award:
Cherien Dabis
Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking:
Brick Novax pt 1 and 2, writer-director Matt Piedmont
Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking:
Deeper Than Yesterday, writer-director Ariel Kleiman
Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking:
Choke, writer-director Michelle Latimer
Diarchy, writer-director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
The External World, writer-director David O’Reilly
The Legend of Beaver Dam, director Jerome Sable
Out of Reach, writer-director Jakub Stozek
Protoparticles, writer-director Chema García Ibarra
