Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Surrogate and The House I Live In among challenging award-winners at 2012 festival
A Louisiana-set drama about a father and his daughter threatened by the impact of global warming, the autobiographical tale of a man's quest to lose his virginity despite living out much of his life in an iron lung and a polemical documentary targeting America's war on drugs were among the top prize-winners as the Sundance film festival reached its denouement at the weekend.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a six-year-old girl living with her dad in the flood-threatened basins near the Mississippi delta, won both the jury prize for best Us drama and a cinematography prize. Benh Zeitlin's film features a cast of non-actors and has been praised by the Guardian's Damon Wise as "the first significant eco-threat movie to be seen through the eyes of the generation...
A Louisiana-set drama about a father and his daughter threatened by the impact of global warming, the autobiographical tale of a man's quest to lose his virginity despite living out much of his life in an iron lung and a polemical documentary targeting America's war on drugs were among the top prize-winners as the Sundance film festival reached its denouement at the weekend.
Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a six-year-old girl living with her dad in the flood-threatened basins near the Mississippi delta, won both the jury prize for best Us drama and a cinematography prize. Benh Zeitlin's film features a cast of non-actors and has been praised by the Guardian's Damon Wise as "the first significant eco-threat movie to be seen through the eyes of the generation...
- 1/30/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
With Sundance wrapping up tomorrow, this year’s award winners were announced at a ceremony tonight in Park City.
Perhaps unsurprising considering the amount of critical acclaim it’s been garnering this past week, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild took home the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Meanwhile, Eugene Jarecki’s War on Drugs critique The House I Live In won this year’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and Mark O’Brien’s crowd-pleasing drama The Surrogate took home the Dramatic Audience Award.
The full list of winners:
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
The House I Live In
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Violeta Went To Heaven
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
The Law In These Parts
Dramatic Audience Award:
The Surrogate
Documentary Audience Award:
The Invisible War
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
Valley of Saints
World Cinema Documentary Audience...
Perhaps unsurprising considering the amount of critical acclaim it’s been garnering this past week, Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild took home the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Meanwhile, Eugene Jarecki’s War on Drugs critique The House I Live In won this year’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and Mark O’Brien’s crowd-pleasing drama The Surrogate took home the Dramatic Audience Award.
The full list of winners:
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
The House I Live In
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Violeta Went To Heaven
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
The Law In These Parts
Dramatic Audience Award:
The Surrogate
Documentary Audience Award:
The Invisible War
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
Valley of Saints
World Cinema Documentary Audience...
- 1/29/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
World Cinema Jury Special Prize, Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
World Cinema Documentary Editing: Indie Game: The Movie, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Can, Rasit Celikezer
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Drama: David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Lars Skree, Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
Best of Next Audience Award: Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia
Audience Award, Shorts: The Debutante Hunters, Maria White
Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
Audience Award, World Cinema: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed
Audience Award, U.S. Documentary: The Invisible War, Kirby Dick
Audience Award, U.S. Drama: The Surrogate, Ben Lewin
World Cinema Jury Prize, Drama: Violeta Went to Heaven
World Cinema Directing Award, Drama: Teddy Bear,...
World Cinema Documentary Editing: Indie Game: The Movie, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Can, Rasit Celikezer
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Drama: David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Lars Skree, Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
Best of Next Audience Award: Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia
Audience Award, Shorts: The Debutante Hunters, Maria White
Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
Audience Award, World Cinema: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed
Audience Award, U.S. Documentary: The Invisible War, Kirby Dick
Audience Award, U.S. Drama: The Surrogate, Ben Lewin
World Cinema Jury Prize, Drama: Violeta Went to Heaven
World Cinema Directing Award, Drama: Teddy Bear,...
- 1/29/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Beasts of the Southern Wild, director Benh Zeitlin’s surreal tale of a six-year old girl living with her father in the flooded basins near the southern delta, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic film. The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki’s documentary about the impact of America’s War on Drugs on poor communities, won for best documentary. The Surrogate, a movie about a man in an iron lung (John Hawkes) who decides to lose his virginity with the assistance of professional sex surrogate (Helen Hunt), was honored with an Audience Award and a prize for Best Ensemble.
- 1/29/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
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