Sundance Film Fest Winners

Many films have been showcased at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, showing the power of independent cinema that flickers back and forth from the minds of the general audience. The festival has finally come to an end, and last night several winners were announced for some of the most prestigious prizes that give each one of these films automatic higher stature. They are awarded to different people in different sections of the filmmaking process, acknowledging how it goes from paper to the final cut. Special thanks to Collider for piecing together the final list.:

2010 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners:

The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Restrepo – Dir. by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington

The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Winter’s Bone - Dir. by Debra Granik

The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary

• The Red Chapel (Det Røde Kapel) - Dir. by Mads Brügger (Denmark)

The World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Animal Kingdom - Dir. by David Michôd (Australia)

The Audience Award: Documentary

• Waiting For Superman - Dir. by Davis Guggenheim

The Audience Award: Dramatic

• Happythankyoumoreplease – Dir. by Josh Radnor

The World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary

• Wasteland - Dir. by Lucy Walker (United Kingdom / Brazil)

The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic

• Contracorriente (Undertow) - Dir. by Javier Fuentes-Leõn (Peru / Colombia / France / Germany)

The Best of NEXT

• Homewrecker – Dir. by Todd Barnes and Brad Barnes

The Directing Award: Documentary

• Smash His Camera – Dir. by Leon Gast

The Directing Award: Dramatic

• 3 Backyards – Dir. by Eric Mendelsohn

The World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary

• Space Tourists – Dir. by Christian Frei (Switzerland)

The World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic

• Southern District – Dir. by Juan Carlos Valdivia (Bolivia)

The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

• Winter’s Bone – Dir. by Debra Granik

The World Cinema Screenwriting Award

• Southern District – Dir. by Juan Carlos Valdivia (Bolivia)

The Documentary Editing Award

• Joan Rivers-A Piece Of Work – Edited by Penelope Falk

The World Cinema Documentary Editing Award

• A Film Unfinished – Edited by Joëlle Alexis (Germany / Israel)

The Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary

• The Oath – Cinematographers: Kirsten Johnson and Laura Poitras

The Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic

• Obselidia - Cinematographer: Zak Mulligan

The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary

• His & Hers – Cinematographers: Kate McCullough and Michael Lavelle (Ireland)

The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic

• The Man Next Door (El Hombre de al Lado) – Cinematographers Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (Argentina)

World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic for Breakout Performance

• Tatiana Maslany - Grown Up Movie Star (Canada)

World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary

• Enemies of the People – Dir. by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath (Cambodia/United Kingdom)

Special Jury Prize: Documentary

• Gasland - Dir. by Josh Fox

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Sympathy for Delicious – Dir. by Mark Ruffalo

2010 Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking

• Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln – Dir. by Jeremy Konner

2010 Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking

• The Six Dollar Fifty Man – Dir. by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland (New Zealand)

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking

• Born Sweet - Dir. by Cynthia Wade (USA/Cambodia)

Alfred P. Sloan Prize

• Obsleidia – Dir. by Diane Bell