Sundance winners
Here are the winners for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival:
Grand Jury Prizes:
Audience Awards:
Directing Awards:
Screenwriting Awards:
Documentary Editing Awards:
Cinematography Awards:
International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: "Soft" (UK) by Simon Ellis.
Honorable mentions -- "Aquarium" by Rob Meyer; "August 15th" (China) by Xuan Jiang; "La Corona (The Crown)" by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega; "Oiran Lyrics" (Japan) by Ryosuke Ogawa; "Spider" (Australia) by Nash Edgerton; "Suspension" (Belgium) by Nicolas Provost; and "W." (Germany) by The Vikings.
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize (for a filmmaker who depicts science or technology, or includes a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character): "Sleep Dealer," Alex Rivera.
Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award (for scripts to be produced): Alejandro Fernandez Almendras (Chile), for "Huacho"; Braden King (U.S.A.) for "Here"; Aiko Nagatsu (Japan) for "Apoptosis"; and Radu Jude (Romania) for "The Happiest Girl in the World."
Grand Jury Prizes:
- U.S. Dramatic -- "Frozen River," directed by Courtney Hunt.
- U.S. Documentary -- "Trouble the Water," directed Carl Deal and Tia Lessin.
- World Cinema Dramatic -- "King of Ping Pong" (Sweden), directed by Jens Jonsson.
- World Cinema Documentary -- "Man on Wire" (UK), directed by James Marsh
Audience Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic -- "The Wackness," directed by Jonathan Levine.
- U.S. Documentary -- "Fields of Fuel," directed by Josh Tickell.
- World Cinema Dramatic -- "Captain Abu Raed" (Jordan), directed by Amin Matalqa.
- World Cinema Documentary -- "Man on Wire" (UK), directed by James Marsh
Directing Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic -- "Ballast," Lance Hammer
- U.S. Documentary -- "American Teen," Nanette Burstein
- World Cinema Dramatic -- "Mermaid" (Russia), Anna Melikyan.
- World Cinema Documentary -- "Durakovo: Village of Fools" (France), Nino Kirtadze.
Screenwriting Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award) -- "Sleep Dealer," Alex Rivera and David Riker.
- World Cinema Dramatic -- "I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster" (France), Samuel Benchetrit.
Documentary Editing Awards:
- U.S. Documentary -- "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," Joe Bini
- World Cinema Documentary -- "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins" (New Zealand), Irena Dol.
Cinematography Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic -- "Ballast," Lol Crawley.
- U.S. Documentary -- "Patti Smith: Dream of Life," Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring.
- World Cinema Dramatic -- "King of Ping Pong" (Sweden), Askild Vik Edvardsen.
- World Cinema Documentary -- "Recycle" (Jordan), Mahmoud al Massad.
- U.S. Dramatic -- Chusy Haney-Jardine, director of "Anywhere, U.S.A." for "spirit of independence"; Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad William Henke, the stars of "Choke," for "work by an ensemble cast."
- U.S. Documentary -- Lisa F. Jackson, director of "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo."
- World Cinema Dramatic -- Ernesto Contreras, director of "Blue Eyelids" (Mexico)
- World Cinema Documentary -- none
International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: "Soft" (UK) by Simon Ellis.
Honorable mentions -- "Aquarium" by Rob Meyer; "August 15th" (China) by Xuan Jiang; "La Corona (The Crown)" by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega; "Oiran Lyrics" (Japan) by Ryosuke Ogawa; "Spider" (Australia) by Nash Edgerton; "Suspension" (Belgium) by Nicolas Provost; and "W." (Germany) by The Vikings.
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize (for a filmmaker who depicts science or technology, or includes a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character): "Sleep Dealer," Alex Rivera.
Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award (for scripts to be produced): Alejandro Fernandez Almendras (Chile), for "Huacho"; Braden King (U.S.A.) for "Here"; Aiko Nagatsu (Japan) for "Apoptosis"; and Radu Jude (Romania) for "The Happiest Girl in the World."
-- Sean P. Means


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