While the 2016 edition of the Sundance Film Festival officially still has a full day of screenings ahead, tonight saw the essential end of the event with the annual awards ceremony. w(n)td will resume regular posting starting Monday, but until then, a summary of the awards announcement follows:
The 2016 awards ceremony, hosted by Taika Waititi, may be watched in full here. In addition to recapping awards announced in separate ceremonies earlier in the week – Shorts, Global Filmmaking, NHK, Sloan – the evening included the announcements of the winners of the US and World Cinema Documentary and Dramatic Competitions, plus the NEXT audience award:
US Documentary Awards:
Grand Jury Prize:
WEINER (pictured)
directed by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Audience Award:
JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY
directed by Brian Oakes
Directing Award:
LIFE, ANIMATED
directed by Roger Ross Williams
Special Jury Award for Editing:
NUTS!
edited by Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski
Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking:
TRAPPED
directed by Dawn Porter
Special Jury Award for Writing:
KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE
directed by Robert Greene
Special Jury Award for Verité Filmmaking:
THE BAD KIDS
directed by Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
World Cinema Documentary Awards:
Grand Jury Prize:
SONITA (pictured)
directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Audience Award:
SONITA
directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Directing Award:
ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
directed by Michał Marczak
Special Jury Award for Debut Feature:
WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE
directed by Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel
Special Jury Award for Cinematography:
THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
directed and shot by Pieter-Jan De Pue
Special Jury Award for Editing:
WE ARE X
edited by Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin
US Dramatic Awards:
Grand Jury Prize:
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (pictured)
directed by Nate Parker
Audience Award:
THE BIRTH OF A NATION
directed by Nate Parker
Directing Award:
SWISS ARMY MAN
directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan
Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award:
MORRIS FROM AMERICA
written by Chad Hartigan
Special Jury Award:
AS YOU ARE
directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance:
to Joe Seo
for SPA NIGHT
Special Jury Award for Individual Performance:
to Melanie Lynskey
for THE INTERVENTION
and
to Craig Robinson
for MORRIS FROM AMERICA
World Cinema Dramatic Awards:
Grand Jury Prize:
SAND STORM (pictured)
directed by Elite Zexer
Audience Award:
BETWEEN SEA AND LAND
directed by Carlos del Castillo
Directing Award:
BELGICA
directed by Felix van Groeningen
Special Jury Award for Acting:
to Vicky Hernandéz and Manolo Cruz
for BETWEEN SEA AND LAND
Special Jury Award for Screenwriting:
MI AMIGA DEL PARQUE
written by Ana Katz and Inés Bortagaray
Special Jury Award for Unique Vision and Design:
THE LURE
directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska
NEXT Audience Award:
FIRST GIRL I LOVED (pictured)
directed by Kerem Sanga
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