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Sundance 2011 Winners

Here are all the winners at this year’s Sundance film festival, which included Like Crazy and How to Die in Oregon.

Here are all the winners at this year’s Sundance film festival, which included Like Crazy and How to Die in Oregon.

Keep an eye out for some of these films over the next year.

JURY PRIZES

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – How to Die in Oregon
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Like Crazy
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Hell and Back Again
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic – Happy, Happy

AUDIENCE AWARDS

  • Audience Award: Documentary – U
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Circumstance
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Senna
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Kinyarwanda
  • Best of NEXT!: Audience Award – to.get.her

DIRECTING & SCREENWRITING

  • Directing Award: Documentary – Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Project Nim
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Tyrannosaur
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Another Happy Day
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Restoration

EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Documentary Editing Award – Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Curry and directed by Marshall Curry.
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – The Redemption of General Butt Naked
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Pariah
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Hell and Back Again
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – All Your Dead Ones

SPECIAL JURY PRIZES

  • Two World Cinema Special Jury Prizes: Dramatic for Breakout Performances Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan in Tyrannosaur
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary – Position Among the Stars
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary – Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Another Earth
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Felicity Jones for her role in Like Crazy
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Brick Novax pt 1 and 2
  • International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Deeper Than Yesterday

HONOURABLE MENTIONS IN SHORT FILMMAKING

  • Choke / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Michelle Latimer)
  • Diarchy / Italy (Director and screenwriter: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino)
  • The External World / Germany, Ireland (Director and screenwriter: David O’Reilly)
  • The Legend of Beaver Dam / Canada (Director: Jerome Sable, screenwriters: Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion)
  • Out of Reach / Poland (Director and screenwriter: Jakub Stozek)
  • Protoparticles / Spain (Director and screenwriter: Chema García Ibarra).

INAUGURAL SUNDANCE INSTITUTE/MAHINDRA GLOBAL FILMMAKING AWARD

  • Bogdan Mustata, Wolf from Romania
  • Ernesto Contreras, I Dream in Another Language from Mexico
  • Seng Tat Liew, In What City Does It Live? from Malaysia
  • Talya Lavie, Zero Motivation from Israel.

OTHER

  • Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer, as the winner of the Sundance Institute/NHK Award.
  • Another Earth, written and directed by Mike Cahill, is the recipient of this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize.

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