Sundance Award Winners: Slow West and Earl and That Diary Girl

Michael and Nathaniel are both safely back in New York but a few more Sundance reviews are forthcoming as well as an Oscar discussion about the first possibilities for the new film year. The festival closes up tonight for another year and last night, they announced the winners. As with last year when Whiplash one both the Jury and the Audience award, one film took both again this year: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, based on the best seller by Jesse Andrews. Can we expect a similarly Oscar friendly trajectory? 

THE WINNERS

U.S. DRAMATIC

Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award  Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Michael's review coming later today. It's said to be a bit Fault in the Stars-ish young people and terminal illness only better. 

Directing Award The Witch, Robert Eggers 
Michael's rave review. A 1630s set horror film about a religious family in Salem. 

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award The Stanford Prison Experiment, Tim Talbott
Nathaniel's Review. This one is based on the infamous 1971 college psychology experiment that's inspired other movies before it.

Special Jury Award – Excellence in Cinematography Diary of a Teenage Girl, Brandon Trost
Michael's review & Nathaniel's quick take. Michael liked it a bit more but expect a lot of talk about it when it's released. With Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, and Kristen Wiig

Special Jury Award – Excellence in Editing Dope, Lee Haugen
Nathaniel's review. The editing has crackerjack timing and is deeply commendable for the first half but why is the second hour so much less taut?  

More after the jump...

The very charismatic trio of stars in DOPE

Special Jury Award – Collaborative Vision Advantageous, Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang

U.S. DOCUMENTARY

Grand Jury Prize The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle
This one sounded fascinating It's about teenage brothers who have been locked away from society in Manhattan projects and everything they know about the world comes from the movies.

Audience Award Meru, Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi
This one's about mountain climbers in the himalayas.

Directing Award Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman (U.S., Mexico)
Vigilantes fighting Mexican drug cartels. 

Special Jury Award – Social Impact 3 1/2 Minutes, Marc Silver
3½ Minutes explores the aftermath of Jordan Russell's shooting death at a Jacksonville gas station in 2012 and the American justice system.

Special Jury Award – Verite Filmmaking Western, Bill Ross, Turner Ross

Special Jury Award – Break Out First Feature (T)error, Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
A real time glimpse at our government’s counterterrorism tactics through the perspective of an informant.

Special Jury Award – Cinematography Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC

Grand Jury Prize Slow West, John Maclean (UK, New Zealand)
Michael's review - he didn't like it as much as the jury that's for sure.

Audience Award – World Cinema Dramatic Umrika, Prashant Nair (India)
Suraj Sharma (Life of Pi) and Tony Revolori (Grand Budapest Hotel) co-star in this film about a young boy who, when his brother goes missing, lies to his mother about it to save her the heartbreak. 

Directing Award The Summer of Sangaile, Alanté Kavaïté (Lithuania, France, The Netherlands)
A teenage romance between two girls who bond at a summer aeronautical show. 

Special Jury Award – Cinematography Partisan, Germain McMicking (Australia)
A young boy trained as an assassin. Starring: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzara.

Special Jury Award – Acting Glassland, Jack Reynor (Ireland)
Nathaniel's Review. The acting is really strong. But it might have been more fun to make it a double prize for Reynor & Toni Collette. 

Special Jury Award – Acting The Second Mother, Regina Casé, Camila Márdila (Brazil)
A mother leaves her daughter to be a nanny. Years later the daughter visits her. 

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

Grand Jury Prize The Russian Woodpecker, Chad Gracia, UK
A victim of the Chernobyl disaster discovers a secret. Should he reveal it?

Audience Award – World Cinema Documentary Dark Horse, Louise Osmond (UK)
Nathaniel's review (yup, it's a crowdpleaser)

Directing Award Dreamcatcher, Kim Longinotto (UK)
Brenda tells her story about being a former teenage prostitute

Special Jury Award – Editing How To Change The World, Jim Scott (UK, Canada)
About the founding of Greenpeace and the modern green movement in 1971

Special Jury Award – Impact Pervert Park, Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors (Sweden, Denmark)
A study of the every day lives of sex offenders in a Florida trailer park.

Special Jury Award – Unparalleled Access The Chinese Mayor, Hao Zhou (China)
The Mayor of a province in China is determined to transform a coal-mining center into a tourism haven. But he has to relocate 1/2 a million residences to do so. 

Audience Award – NEXT James White, Josh Mond
Chris Abbott stars as the eponymous character who tries to change his self-destructive behavior. Cynthia Nixon co-stars

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize The Stanford Prison Experiment, Kyle Patrick Alvarez (U.S.)

SHORT FILM PRIZES

Short Film Grand Jury Prize World of Tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt (U.S.)
A girl goes on a crazy tour of the future.

Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction SMILF, Frankie Shaw (U.S.)
A young single mother struggles invites an old friend over during nap time

Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction Oh Lucy!, Atsuko Hirayanagi (Japan, Singapore, U.S.)
An English language teacher encourages a middle aged single lady to try out a new identity "Lucy" with a blonde wig. 

Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul, Kitty Green (Australia)
Little girls auditioning to play figure skater Oksana Baiul in the Ukraine

Short Film Jury Award: Animation Storm hits jacket, Paul Cabon (France)
Two scientists get caught up in a chaotic crazy storm. 

Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting Back Alley, Cécile Ducrocq (France)
A longtime prostitute is threatened when a young prostitute settles nearby. 

Short Film Special Jury Award for Visual Poetry Object, Paulina Skibińska (Poland)
An underwater search from the point of view of the rescue team and the people waiting on the shore.

You can watch the awards ceremony right here.

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