As the Sundance Film Festival winds down and everyone remembers what how hard it is to breathe so far above sea level, the 2011 the Sundance Film Festival Awards were doled out last night by co-hosts Tim Blake Nelson and John Cooper, both attired as snowflakes (Franco & Hathaway, take note!). Like Crazy, the story of young long-distance love starring Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, took the Grand Jury Prize as well as an acting prize for Jones, while to.get.her nabbed the Audience Award. Check out the full list of winners below! [Deadline]
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
How to Die in Oregon
In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to Die in Oregon gently enters the lives of terminally ill Oregonians to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Like Crazy
A young American guy and a young British girl meet in college and fall in love. Their love is tested when she is required to leave the country and they must face the challenges of a long-distance relationship.
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary
Hell and Back Again
Told through the eyes of one Marine from the start of his 2009 Afghanistan tour to his distressing return and rehabilitation in the U.S., we witness what modern "unconventional" warfare really means to the men who are fighting it. U.S.A./United Kingdom
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic
Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig)
A perfect housewife, who just happens to be sex-starved, struggles to keep her emotions in check when an attractive family moves in next door. Norway
The Audience Award: Documentary
Buck
A story about the power of non-violence and master horse trainer Buck Brannaman, who uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.
The Audience Award: Dramatic
Circumstance
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
The World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary
Senna
About legendary racing driver and Brazilian hero Ayrton Senna, taking us on the ultimate journey of what it means to become the greatest when faced with the constant possibility of death. United Kingdom
The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic
Kinyarwanda
The story of Rwandans who crossed the lines of hatred during the 1994 genocide, turning mosques into places of refuge for Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis. U.S.A./Rwanda
The Best of NEXT!: Audience Award
to.get.her
About five girls who come together for one fateful night where anything goes. They all had secrets, but their friendship was the only thing they knew to be true.
The Directing Award: Documentary
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
An urban mystery unfurls as one man pieces together the surreal meaning of hundreds of cryptic tiled messages that have been appearing in city streets across the U.S. and South America.
The Directing Award: Dramatic
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
The World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary
Project Nim
Explores the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who was taught to communicate with language as he was raised and nurtured like a human child.United Kingdom
The World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic
Tyrannosaur
For a man plagued by self-destructive violence and rage, a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker with a devastating secret of her own. United Kingdom
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Another Happy Day
About a pair of reckless siblings who are dragged into a chaotic family wedding by their overwrought mother.
The World Cinema Screenwriting Award
Restoration
About an antique furniture restorer, who, aided by a young and mysterious apprentice, struggles to keep his workshop alive, while his relationship with his own estranged son, who is trying to close down the shop, begins to disintegrate. Israel
The Documentary Editing Award
If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
The Earth Liberation Front is a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's "number one domestic terrorist threat." Daniel McGowan, an ELF member, faces life in prison for arson against Oregon timber companies.
The World Cinema Documentary Editing Award
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicled the Black Power movement in America. Combining that 16mm footage, undiscovered until now, with contemporary audio interviews, this film illuminates the people and culture that fueled change and brings the movement to life anew.Sweden/U.S.A.
The Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
A brutal warlord who murdered thousands during Liberia's horrific 14-year civil war renounces his violent past and reinvents himself as an Evangelist, facing those he once terrorized.
The Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic
Pariah
When forced to choose between losing her best friend or destroying her family, a Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and endures heartbreak in a desperate search for sexual expression.
The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary
Hell and Back Again
Told through the eyes of one Marine from the start of his 2009 Afghanistan tour to his distressing return and rehabilitation in the U.S., we witness what modern "unconventional" warfare really means to the men who are fighting it. U.S.A./United Kingdom
The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic
All Your Dead Ones
One morning, a peasant wakes to find a pile of bodies in the middle of his crops. When he goes to the authorities, he quickly realizes that the dead ones are a problem nobody wants to deal with. Colombia
Two World Cinema Special Jury Prizes: Dramatic for Breakout Performances
Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan
Tyrannosaur
A World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary
Position Among the Stars (Stand van de Sterren)
An expose of the effects of globalization on Indonesia's rapidly changing society as it ripples into the life of a poor Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta with her Muslim sons and teenage granddaughter. The Netherlands
A Special Jury Prize: Documentary
BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer's Journey
An inspirational film that crosses cultures and generations
A Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
Another Earth
On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love affair.
A Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
Felicity Jones
Like Crazy
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