Sundance officially closes, but tonight the awards were handed out in grand fashion. The ceremony was taken over by Tim Blake Nelson, who arrived dressed up as a snowflake. There were loads of strong contenders this year, but only few stood out.
Doremus was the man of the hour with his powerful love story called Like Crazy. It also gave the actress Felicity Jones an award. The other film that was really talked about at the festival was Mary Marcy May Marlene. It ended up getting only an director prize for Sean Durkin.
The other grim tale that took the documentary prize was How to Die Oregon. It was a tale about medically assisted suicide.
Here is the rest of the list of awards at the festival.
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic
Like Crazy
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
How To Die In Oregon
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic
Happy, Happy
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary
Hell and Back Again
Dramatic Audience Award
Circumstance
Documentary Audience Award
Buck
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
Kinyarwanda
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award
Senna
The Best of NEXT Audience Award
to.get.her
Directing Award, Dramatic
Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin
Directing Award, Documentary
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, directed by Jon Foy
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic
Tyrannosaur, directed by Paddy Considine
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary
Project Nim, directed by James Marsh
Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award
Another Happy Day
World Cinema Screenwriting Award
Restoration
Documentary Editing Award
If a Tree Falls
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic
Pariah
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Dramatic
All Your Dead Ones
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary
Hell and Back Again
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic (Acting)
Felicity Jones for Like Crazy
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
Another Earth
Special Jury Prize: Documentary
Being Elmo
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary
Position Among The Stars
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
Tyrannosaur, for acting
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
Another Earth, directed by Mike Cahill
Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award
Cherien Dabis
The Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking
Brick Novax pt 1 and 2, written and directed by Matt Piedmont
The Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking
Deeper Than Yesterday, written and directed by Ariel Kleiman
The Shorts Jury Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking
Choke, written and directed by Michelle Latimer
Diarchy, written and directed by Ferdinando Cito Filmomarinoes.
The External World, written and directed by David O’Reilly
The Legend of Beaver Dam, directed by Jerome Sable; written by Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion
Out of Reach, written and directed by Jakub Stozek
Protoparticles, written and directed by Chema García Ibarra