2013 Sundance Film Festival Winners
Sundance 2013 has come to a close after what seems like an especially strong year. The jury and audience awards were just announced this weekend and the big winner appears to be Fruitvale. The drama, covered in our first Sundance round-up as one of the titles gaining buzz, won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for the U.S. Dramatic competition. Last year the Jury award went to Beasts of the Southern Wild while the audience award was given to The Sessions (which was originally titled The Surrogate at Sundance). Both of those movies have gone on to get Oscar nominations, so with Fruitvale we might have an Oscar contender on our hands if it gets released this year. The Weinstein Company has the distribution rights, and while no release date has been given it won’t be surprising if we get to see the film in a prime awards season slot this fall/winter.
Other award winners include: Blood Brother, a documentary about an American volunteering in India which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Documentaries; Bradford Young, whose work as cinematographer on Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George got him the Cinematography Award for both films; Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley earning the Acting Award for their highly praised work in The Spectacular Now; and two of our most anticipated Sundance titles, In A World and Upstream Color, both took home a Writing and Sound Design award respectively.
Full list of 2013 Sundance Film Festival winners below
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic:
Fruitvale
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary:
Blood Brother
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic:
Jiseul
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary:
A River Changes Course
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic:
Metro Manila
Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary:
The Square
Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura:
Fruitvale
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura:
Blood Brother
Audience Award: Best of NEXT:
This is Martin Bonner
Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic:
Afternoon Delight
Directing Award: U. S. Documentary:
Cutie and the Boxer
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic:
Crystal Fairy
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary:
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic:
Lasting
Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary:
Dirty Wars
Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic:
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic:
Mother of George
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary:
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking:
Inequality for All
U. S. Documentary Special Jury award for Achievement in Filmmaking:
American Promise
U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting:
Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design:
Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, Upstream Color
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award:
Circles
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award:
Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer
Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary:
The Summit
Editing Award: U. S. Documentary:
Gideon’s Army
Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic:
Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic:
In A World…
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize:
Computer Chess