Award Winners Announced!
2009 Sundance Film Festival
This year’s Award Winners:
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPHIRE
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Lee Daniels director of PUSH here.
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary
ROUGH AUNTIES
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic
THE MAID / LA NANA
Audience Award: US Documentary, presented by Honda
THE COVE
Watch the Sundance Channel Interview with Louie Psihoyos, director of THE COVE, here.
Audience Award: US Dramatic, presented by Honda
PUSH
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Lee Daniels here.
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary
AFGHAN STAR
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic
AN EDUCATION
US Directing Award: Documentary
Natalia Almada, EL GENERAL
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Natalia Almada, director of EL GENERAL, here.
US Directing Award: Dramatic
Cary Fukunaga, SIN NOMBRE
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Cary Joji Fukunaga, director of SIN NOMBRE, here.
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary
Havana Marking, AFGHAN STAR
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic
Oliver Hirschbiegel, FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi for PAPER HEART
World Cinema Screenwriting Award
Guy Hibbert For FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN
US Documentary Editing Award
Karen Schmeer, SERGIO
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Greg Barker, director of SERGIO, here.
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award
Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros, BURMA VJ
Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Documentary
Robert Richman, THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with R.J. Cutler, director of SEPTEMBER ISSUE, here.
Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Dramatic
Adriano Goldman, SIN NOMBRE
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Cary Joji Fukunaga director of SIN NOMBRE here.
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary
John Maringouin, BIG RIVER MAN
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic
John de Borman, AN EDUCATION
Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic
Catalina Saavedra For THE MAID / LA NANA
Special Jury Prize: US Documentary
GOOD HAIR
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Chris Rock
Special Jury Prize: US Dramatic, for The Spirit of Independence
HUMPDAY
Follow Writer/Director Lynn Shelton to the premiere of HUMPDAY.
Special Jury Prize: US Dramatic, for Acting
Mo’Nique for PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPHIRE
Watch the Sundance Channel interview here.
Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary
TIBET IN SONG
Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic, for Originality
LOUISE-MICHEL
Alfred P. Sloan Award
ADAM
Watch the Sundance Channel interview with Max Mayer, director of ADAM, here.
Jury prize in US Short Filmmaking
SHORT TERM 12
International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking
LIES
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking
OMELETTE
WESTERN SPAGHETTI
THE ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS FROM NEBULA-5
TREEVENGE
JERRYCAN
PROTECT YOU + ME
I LIVE IN THE WOODS
I LOVE YOU MORE
