2008 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 8:41 pm EST
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival comes to a close tomorrow, and the award winners have just been announced. Here are the major winners from this year’s festival: Alfred P Sloan Memorial Prize: Sleep Dealer
American Cinema:
Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David RikerDramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, BallastDramatic Special Jury Prize for “the Spirit of Independent Cinema”: Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, USADramatic Special Jury Prize for “Work by an Ensemble Cast”: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad Henke for ChokeDramatic Cinematography Award: Ballast, Lol CrawleyDocumentary Grand Jury Prize: Trouble the Water
Documentary Audience Award: Fields of Fuel Documentary Directing Award: Nanette Burnstein, American TeenDocumentary Special Jury Prize: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the CongoDocumentary Cinematography Award: Patti Smith: Dream of LifeDocumentary Editing Award: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Joe Bini
World Cinema:
Documentary Jury Prize: Man on WireDocumentary Audience Award: Man on WireDocumentary Cinematography Award: Mahmoud al Massad, RecycleDocumentary Editing Award: Irena Dol, The Art Star and the Sudanese TwinsDocumentary Directing Award: Nino Kirtadze for Durakovo: Village of FoolsDramatic Jury Prize: The King of Ping PongDramatic Cinematography Award: Askilld Vik Edvardsen, King of Ping PongDramatic Screenwriting: Samuel Benchetrit, I Always Wanted to be a GangsterDramatic Directing: Anna Melikyan, MermaidDramatic Audience Award: Captain abu Raed
Short Films:
International Jury Prize: SoftJury Prize: My Olympic Summer and Sikumi It’s great to see The Wackness, American Teen, Sleep Dealer and Choke took home some top awards.
2008 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners
By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 26, 2008 8:41 pm EST
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival comes to a close tomorrow, and the award winners have just been announced. Here are the major winners from this year’s festival: Alfred P Sloan Memorial Prize: Sleep Dealer
Alfred P Sloan Memorial Prize: Sleep Dealer
American Cinema:
Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David RikerDramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, BallastDramatic Special Jury Prize for “the Spirit of Independent Cinema”: Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, USADramatic Special Jury Prize for “Work by an Ensemble Cast”: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad Henke for ChokeDramatic Cinematography Award: Ballast, Lol CrawleyDocumentary Grand Jury Prize: Trouble the Water
Documentary Audience Award: Fields of Fuel Documentary Directing Award: Nanette Burnstein, American TeenDocumentary Special Jury Prize: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the CongoDocumentary Cinematography Award: Patti Smith: Dream of LifeDocumentary Editing Award: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Joe Bini
Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness
Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David RikerDramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, BallastDramatic Special Jury Prize for “the Spirit of Independent Cinema”: Chusy Haney-Jardine for Anywhere, USADramatic Special Jury Prize for “Work by an Ensemble Cast”: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad Henke for ChokeDramatic Cinematography Award: Ballast, Lol CrawleyDocumentary Grand Jury Prize: Trouble the Water
Documentary Audience Award: Fields of Fuel
Documentary Directing Award: Nanette Burnstein, American TeenDocumentary Special Jury Prize: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the CongoDocumentary Cinematography Award: Patti Smith: Dream of LifeDocumentary Editing Award: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Joe Bini
World Cinema:
Documentary Jury Prize: Man on WireDocumentary Audience Award: Man on WireDocumentary Cinematography Award: Mahmoud al Massad, RecycleDocumentary Editing Award: Irena Dol, The Art Star and the Sudanese TwinsDocumentary Directing Award: Nino Kirtadze for Durakovo: Village of FoolsDramatic Jury Prize: The King of Ping PongDramatic Cinematography Award: Askilld Vik Edvardsen, King of Ping PongDramatic Screenwriting: Samuel Benchetrit, I Always Wanted to be a GangsterDramatic Directing: Anna Melikyan, MermaidDramatic Audience Award: Captain abu Raed
Short Films:
International Jury Prize: SoftJury Prize: My Olympic Summer and Sikumi It’s great to see The Wackness, American Teen, Sleep Dealer and Choke took home some top awards.
It’s great to see The Wackness, American Teen, Sleep Dealer and Choke took home some top awards.
