This is a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

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1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011

1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Old Enough
  Old Enough
  This article is about the film. For the single by Nickelback, see Old Enough .For the single by The Raconteurs, see Old Enough Old Enough is a 1984 teen-oriented movie...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Style Wars
  Style Wars
  Style Wars is a 1983 documentary on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Documentary - Seeing Red
  Seeing Red (film)
  Seeing Red is a 1983 documentary film directed by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.- Plot :...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Documentary - The Good Fight (The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War)
• Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Last Night at the Alamo
  Last Night at the Alamo
  Last Night at the Alamo is a 1983 American black-and-white independent film directed and co-produced by Eagle Pennell, written and co-produced by Kim Henkel and starring Sonny Carl Davis and Lou Perryman.-Plot:...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - When the Mountains Tremble
  When the Mountains Tremble
  When The Mountains Tremble is 1983 documentary produced by Skylight Pictures about the war between the Guatemalan Military and the Mayan Indian population of Guatemala. The film centers on the experiences of future Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, nine...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition Documentary - The Secret Agent
• Special Jury Recognition Dramatic - Hero

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1985

1985 in film

-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Blood Simple
  Blood Simple
  Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Seventeen
  Seventeen (1985 film)
  Seventeen is a documentary film directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines. It won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival.-External links:*, page 17.* -References:...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Almost You
• Special Jury Prize Dramatic - The Killing Floor
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - America and Lewis Hine
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Kaddish
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Streetwise
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - The Times of Harvey Milk
  The Times of Harvey Milk
  The Times of Harvey Milk is an American documentary film that premiered at The Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and then on November 1, 1984 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition Dramatic - Stranger Than Paradise
  Stranger Than Paradise
  Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American absurdist/deadpan comedy film. It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and stars jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition Documentary - In Heaven There Is No Beer?
  In Heaven There Is No Beer? (1984)
  In Heaven There Is No Beer? is a documentary film by Les Blank about polkas and their devotees. It won an awards from the Sundance Film Festivaland in 1985 the Grand Prix at the Melbourne International Film Festival....
  
  

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1986

1986 in film

-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Smooth Talk
  Smooth Talk
  Smooth Talk is a 1985 drama film, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid. The protagonist and main character, Connie Wyatt, is played by Laura Dern...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Private Conversations
• Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Desert Hearts
  Desert Hearts
  Desert Hearts is a 1985 lesbian-themed romantic drama film loosely based on the Jane Rule novel Desert of the Heart. Directed by Donna Deitch, the film stars Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau with a supporting performance by Audra Lindley....
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is a 1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - Parting Glances
  Parting Glances
  thumb|Parting Glances released on VHS format in 1998Parting Glances is an American film shot in 1984 and released in 1986. With its realistic look at urban gay life in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the AIDS crisis, many film critics consider it an important movie in the history of gay...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - The Great Wall is a Great Wall
• Special Jury Recognition for Youth Comedy - Seven Minutes in Heaven
  Seven Minutes in Heaven (film)
  Seven Minutes in Heaven is a 1985 teen film directed by Linda Feferman, starring Jennifer Connelly in one of her first roles.-Plot:Natalie allows her classmate Jeff , who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather , to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip...
  
  

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1987

1987 in film

-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Waiting for the Moon
  Waiting for the Moon
  Waiting for the Moon is a 1987 Twentieth Century Fox film about Gertrude Stein and her lover and assistant Alice B. Toklas, played by Linda Bassett and Linda Hunt. Set in the 1930s, it depicts the two women meeting Picasso and his lover Fernande Olivier , as well as the authors Ernest Hemingway ,...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - The Trouble with Dick
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Sherman's March
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - No Picnic
  No Picnic
  No Picnic is a film written and directed by Philip Hartman. It was filmed in black and white in New York in 1985 and released two years later, in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won Excellence In Cinematography Award Dramatic....
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Chile: When Will It End?
  Chile: When Will It End?
  Chile: When Will It End? is a 1986 Australian documentary film produced by David Bradbury. The film portrays the brutal dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - Working Girls
• Special Jury Recognition - River's Edge
  River's Edge
  River's Edge is a 1986 American drama film written by Neal Jimenez and starring Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, and Dennis Hopper.It was awarded Best Picture from the Independent Spirit Awards in 1986.- Plot :...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Chile: When Will It End?
• Special Jury Prize for Originality - Sullivan's Pavilion

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1988

1988 in film

-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Heat and Sunlight
  Heat and Sunlight
  Heat and Sunlight is a 1987 independent film written, directed by and starring Rob Nilsson. It tells the story of a photojournalist who had worked in Biafra trying to patch up his relationship with his lover.- External links :...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Beirut: The Last Home Movie
  Beirut: The Last Home Movie
  Beirut: The Last Home Movie is a 1987 documentary film directed by Jennifer Fox. It follows the life of Gaby Bustros and her family, who live in in a 200-year old mansion in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Rachel River
  Rachel River
  Rachel River is a 1987 comedy-drama film about a young journalist who returns to her Minnesota home town to reexamine her life. The film was directed by Sandy Smolan, and stars Pamela Reed, Ailene Cole, Don Cosgrove, and Craig T. Nelson....
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Beirut: The Last Home Movie
• Special Jury Prize - Lemon Sky
  Lemon Sky
  Lemon Sky is a 1970 play by Lanford Wilson first produced at Cafe La Mama. The story is about a fresh out of high school teen from the midwest moving to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
  Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
  Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam is an Emmy Award–winning 1987 documentary, inspired by the book of the same title, directed by Bill Couturié. Using real letters written by US soldiers and archive footage, the film creates a highly personal experience of the Vietnam War...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Viveca Lindfors
  Viveca Lindfors
  Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors , better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish stage and film actress.-Life and career:...
  
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• Special Jury Recognition - The Brave Little Toaster
  The Brave Little Toaster (film)
  The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated adventure film adapted from the 1980 novel of the same name by Thomas Disch. The film was directed by Jerry Rees and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is set in a world where household appliances and other electronics have the ability to speak...
  
  

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1989

1989 in film

-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - True Love
  True Love (1989 film)
  True Love is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Nancy Savoca. An unflinching look at the realities of love and marriage which offers no "happily ever after" ending, it won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival.-Cast:...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - For All Mankind
  For All Mankind
  For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film documenting the Apollo missions of NASA. It was directed by Al Reinert.Music for the film was originally composed in 1983 by Brian Eno and released as an album entitled Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - For All Mankind
• Audience Award Dramatic - sex, lies and videotape
  Sex, lies, and videotape
  Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a 1989 independent film that brought director Steven Soderbergh to prominence. It tells the story of a man who films women discussing their sexuality, and his impact on the relationship of a troubled married couple....
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Powwow Highway
  Powwow Highway
  Powwow Highway is a 1989 comedic road movie based on a novel by David Seals. It features A Martinez, Gary Farmer, and Amanda Wyss. Wes Studi and Graham Greene, who were relatively unknown actors at the time, have small supporting roles.-Plot:...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - John Huston
• Special Jury Recognition - The Roommate

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1990

1990 in film

The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Chameleon Street
  Chameleon Street
  Chameleon Street is a 1989 independent film written, directed by and starring Wendell B. Harris, Jr.. It tells the story of a social chameleon who impersonates reporters, doctors and lawyers in order to make money....
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - H-2 Worker
  H-2 Worker
  H-2 Worker is a 1990 documentary film about the exploitation of workers in Florida's sugar cane industry. It was directed by Stephanie Black, and won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in the 1990 festival.-External links:...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Water and Power
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - H-2 Worker
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - House Party
  House Party (film)
  House Party is a 1990 American comedy film released by New Line Cinema. It stars Kid and Play of the popular hip hop duo Kid 'n Play, and also stars Paul Anthony, Bow-Legged Lou, and B-Fine from Full Force, and Robin Harris . The film also starred Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, A.J...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - House Party
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
• Audience Award Dramatic - Longtime Companion
  Longtime Companion
  Longtime Companion is a 1989 film with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker. The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the words The New York Times used to describe the surviving same-sex partner of...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Berkeley in the Sixties
  Berkeley in the Sixties
  Berkeley in the Sixties is an award-winning documentary film by Mark Kitchell. The film features Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, Joan Baez, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Allen Ginsberg, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the Grateful Dead...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - To Sleep with Anger
  To Sleep With Anger
  To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 drama film directed and written by Charles Burnett.-Plot:Harry Mention , an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon , who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - Samsara: Death And Rebirth In Cambodia

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1991

1991 in film

The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Poison
  Poison (film)
  Poison is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Todd Haynes. It is composed of three intercut stories that are partially inspired by the novels of Jean Genet...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - American Dream
  American Dream (film)
  American Dream is a cinéma vérité documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple and co-directed by Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, and Lawrence Silk....
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Paris Is Burning
  Paris is Burning (film)
  Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Privilege
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - American Dream
• Audience Award Dramatic - One Cup of Coffee
• Audience Award Documentary - American Dream
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Daughters of the Dust
  Daughters of the Dust
  Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written, directed and produced by Julie Dash. It tells the story of three generations of Gullah women at the turn of the 20th century and focuses on the family's migration from the Sea Islands to the American mainland.Featuring an unusual narrative...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Christo in Paris
• Special Jury Recognition - Straight Out of Brooklyn
  Straight Out of Brooklyn
  Straight Out of Brooklyn is an 1991 independent film directed by Matty Rich in his directorial debut. The film is a gritty story about Dennis , an African-American teen living in a housing project with his sister, mother and abusive, alcoholic father...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Hangin' with the Homeboys
  Hangin' with the Homeboys
  Hangin' with the Homeboys is a 1991 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Joseph Vasquez. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. It was released by New Line Cinema.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Trust

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1992

1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - In the Soup
  In the Soup
  In the Soup is a 1992 independent film comedy directed by Alexandre Rockwell. It stars Steve Buscemi as a self-conscious screenwriter who has written an unfilmable 500-page screenplay and is looking for a producer....
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - A Brief History of Time
  A Brief History of Time (film)
  A Brief History of Time is a 1991 American documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris. Its title derives from Hawking's bestselling book of the same name, but whereas the book is an explanation of cosmology, the film is a biography of Hawking's life, featuring...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Finding Christa
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Zebrahead
  Zebrahead (film)
  Zebrahead is a 1992 drama film, directed by Anthony Drazan and starring Michael Rapaport and N'Bushe Wright. Set in Detroit, Michigan, the film is about an interracial romance between a white man and a black woman and the resulting tensions among the characters...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - A Brief History of Time
• Audience Award Dramatic - The Waterdance
  The Waterdance
  The Waterdance is a 1992 semi-autobiographical movie about a young writer who becomes paralyzed in a hiking accident and works to rehabilitate his body and mind at a rehabilitation center. It stars Eric Stoltz, Wesley Snipes, William Forsythe and Helen Hunt as a married woman with whom he is...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Brother's Keeper
  Brother's Keeper (film)
  Brother's Keeper is a 1992 documentary directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. The film is about an alleged 1990 murder in the village of Munnsville, New York. The film is in the "Direct Cinema" style of the Maysles brothers who had formerly employed Berlinger and Sinofsky.The film contrasts...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Swoon
  Swoon (film)
  Swoon is an independent film written and directed by Tom Kalin, released in 1992. It is an account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other movies based on the case...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Shoot for the Contents
• Special Jury Recognition - The Hours and Times
  The Hours and Times
  The Hours and Times is a 1991 drama film written and directed by Christopher Münch. Starring David Angus and Ian Hart, it is a fictionalized account of what might have happened during a real holiday taken by John Lennon and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein in 1963.-Plot:It is 1963 and John Lennon...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - My Crasy Life
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Seymour Cassel
  Seymour Cassel
  Seymour Joseph Cassel is an American actor.He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/directorJohn Cassavetes...
  
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• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - The Waterdance
• Piper-Heidseick Award for Independent Vision - John Turturro
  John Turturro
  John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series...
  
  

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1993

1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Ruby in Paradise
  Ruby in Paradise
  Ruby in Paradise is a 1993 film written, directed, and edited by Victor Nuñez, and starring Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean, and Dorothy Lyman. It is an homage to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Public Access
  Public Access
  Public Access is a 1993 American drama film directed by Bryan Singer in his feature film debut. Singer also wrote the screenplay with Christopher McQuarrie and Michael Feit Dougan. The film was shot in 18 days for US$250,000. It was screened at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, where it was...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Silverlake Life: The View from Here
  Silverlake Life: The View from Here
  Silverlake Life: The View from Here is a 1993 documentary film by director Peter Friedman and Tom Joslin. Shot with a hand-held video camera, the film documents the final months of a relationship between two gay men as they both struggle to deal with AIDS.The film won several awards including a...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Fly by Night
• Audience Award Dramatic - El Mariachi
  El Mariachi
  El Mariachi is a 1992 Mexican-American action film that is the debut of writer/director Robert Rodriguez. The Spanish language film was shot in the northern Mexican bordertown of Ciudad Acuña with a mainly amateur cast...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Something Within Me
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - An Ambush of Ghosts
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
  Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
  Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family is a 1993 documentary film about life in the slums of Palermo, Sicily, directed by Andrew Young and Susan Todd....
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Combination Platter
• Special Jury Recognition - Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
  Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
  Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. is a 1992 drama film written, produced, and directed by Leslie Harris. It remains Harris's only film worked on to date.- Plot :...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - Earth and the American Dream
• Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision - Denzel Washington
  Denzel Washington
  Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...
  
  

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1994

1994 in film

1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - What Happened Was
  What Happened Was
  What Happened Was... is a 1994 independent film written, directed by and starring Tom Noonan. It is an adaptation of Noonan's original play of the same name.-Plot:...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Freedom on My Mind
  Freedom on My Mind
  Freedom on My Mind is a 1994 documentary film about the efforts to register African-American voters in 1960s Mississippi and the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Clerks
  Clerks
  Clerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Fresh
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
  Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
  Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey is a 1993 documentary film directed by Steven M. Martin about the life of Leon Theremin and his invention, the theremin, a pioneering electronic musical instrument....
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Spanking the Monkey
  Spanking the Monkey
  Spanking the Monkey is a 1994 US independent black comedy written and directed by David O. Russell. The title of the movie is a slang phrase for masturbation and is used in the film by one of the teenage characters...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Picture Bride
  Picture Bride (film)
  Picture Bride is a 1995 feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. It follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a "picture bride" for a man she has never met before. The story is based...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Hoop Dreams
  Hoop Dreams
  Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players....
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Suture
  Suture (film)
  Suture is a 1993 neo-noir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story
• Freedom of Expression Award - Dialogues with Madwomen
  Dialogues with Madwomen
  Dialogues with Madwomen is a 1993 documentary by Allie Light focusing on mental illness in women.In Dialogues with Madwomen, filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf have coaxed seven "madwomen" — including Light herself — into telling their stories...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Heart of the Matter
• Special Jury Recognition - Coming Out Under Fire
  Coming Out Under Fire
  Coming Out Under Fire is a documentary film directed and produced by Arthur Dong and narrated by actress Salome Jens. Based on Allan Bérubé's book of the same title, the film examines the attitudes toward homosexuality in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.-Awards:*Special Jury...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - Fun
  Fun (film)
  Fun is a 1994 independent drama film starring Alicia Witt and Renée Humphrey, and directed by Rafal Zielinski. Both Witt and Humphrey won a Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. The film centres on the murder of an elderly woman by two mentally unstable...
  
  
• Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision - Gena Rowlands
  Gena Rowlands
  Gena Rowlands is an American actress of film, stage and television. The four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner is best known for her collaborations with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, in two of which, Gloria and A Woman Under the Influence, she gave Academy...
  
  

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1995

1995 in film

-Top grossing films:-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.* March 28 - Actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett announce their plans for separation....

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - The Brothers McMullen
  The Brothers McMullen
  The Brothers McMullen is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed, written, produced by, and starring Edward Burns. It deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex,...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - The Young Poisoner's Handbook
  The Young Poisoner's Handbook
  The Young Poisoner's Handbook is a 1995 British-German-French-produced black comedy film based on the life of Graham Young, more commonly known as "The Teacup Murderer". It was directed by Benjamin Ross and written by Ross and Jeff Rawle...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Crumb
  Crumb (film)
  Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground comic artist Robert Crumb and his family. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell and David Lynch, it won widespread acclaim, including both the Grand Jury Prize and best cinematography prize at the Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Angela
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - Black is... Black Ain't
  Black is... Black Ain't
  Black is... Black Ain't is a 1994 documentary film directed by Marlon Riggs. The film was awarded the Filmmakers Trophy for best documentary at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.-Overview:...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Ballot Measure 9
  Ballot Measure 9
  Ballot Measure 9 is a 1995 documentary film directed and produced by Heather Lyn Macdonald. The film examines the cultural and political battle that took place in 1992 over Oregon Ballot Measure 9, a citizen's initiative proposition that would have declared homosexuality "abnormal, wrong,...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Unzipped
  Unzipped (film)
  Unzipped is a 1995 documentary film, directed by Douglas Keeve. It follows fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, Keeve's then boyfriend, as he plans and ultimately shows his fall 1994 collection...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Living in Oblivion
  Living in Oblivion
  Living in Oblivion is a darkly comic, low-budget independent film depicting the making of a low-budget independent film, written and directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle von Zerneck and James LeGros. The film won Tom DiCillo the Waldo Salt...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - When Billy Broke His Head...and Other Tales of Wonder
• Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Jupiter's Wife
• Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Heavy
  Heavy (film)
  Heavy is a 1995 independent American drama film written and directed by James Mangold, and starring Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters, and Deborah Harry...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Rhythm Thief
• Special Jury Recognition - El héroe
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Eagles Don't Hunt Flies
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Strawberry and Chocolate
  Strawberry and Chocolate
  Strawberry and Chocolate is a Cuban-Spanish-Mexican co-produced film, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, based on the short story "The Wolf, The Forest and the New Man" written by Senel Paz in 1990. Senel Paz also wrote the screenplay for the film.- Plot :The story takes...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - The Salesman and Other Adventures
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Tom's Flesh
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Nonnie and Alex
• Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision - Nicolas Cage
  Nicolas Cage
  Nicolas Cage is an American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona , The Rock , Face/Off , Gone in 60 Seconds , Adaptation , National Treasure , Ghost Rider , Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , and...
  
  

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1996

1996 in film

Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Welcome to the Dollhouse
  Welcome to the Dollhouse
  Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 American independent coming of age dark comedy. An independent film, it launched the careers of Todd Solondz and Heather Matarazzo.-Plot:...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
  Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
  Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern is a 1995 documentary by filmmakers Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher. The film explores the family farm crisis through the story of Jordan's own family, as they take extraordinary measures to save their Iowa farm....
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Girls Town
  Girls Town (1996 film)
  Girls Town is a 1996 movie debut by Jim Mckay that centers on the lives of three high-school aged women after the suicide of a friend. The Girls Town soundtrack was released on August 20, 1996 by Mercury Records.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Care of the Spitfire Grill
  The Spitfire Grill
  The Spitfire Grill is a 1996 American motion picture that tells a story of a woman who was just released from prison and goes to work in a small-town café known as The Spitfire Grill. A central theme is redemption....
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
  Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
  Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Christopher Münch. It stars Peter Alexander and features R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Cutting Loose
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Big Night
  Big Night
  Scott and Tucci won the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best New Director. Tucci and Tropiano won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - The Celluloid Closet
  The Celluloid Closet
  The Celluloid Closet is a 1996 American documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. The film is based on the 1981 book of the same name written by Vito Russo, and on previous lecture and film clip presentations given in person by Russo 1972–82.Russo researched the...
  
  
• Special Jury Recognition - When We Were Kings
  When We Were Kings
  When We Were Kings is a 1996 documentary film directed by Leon Gast about the famous Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. The fight was held in Zaire on October 30, 1974.The film features a number of celebrities, including James Brown, Jim...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - I Shot Andy Warhol
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Guantanamera
  Guantanamera (film)
  Guantanamera is a 1995 comedy film from Cuba, directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, featuring an ensemble cast. Screenplay by Eliseo Alberto and others.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Wild Horses
  Wild Horses (1995 film)
  Caballos Salvajes is a 1995 Argentine road movie directed by Marcelo Piñeyro and written by Piñeyro and Aída Bortnik. It stars Héctor Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Dopazo and Federico Luppi in a cameo appearance...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Pig!
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Dry Mount
• Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision - Dianne West

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1997

1997 in film

-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Girls Like Us
  Girls Like Us
  Girls Like Us is a 1997 documentary film directed byTina Di Feliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner. It follows the lives of four teenage girls of Philadelphia for four years.- External links :...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Sunday
• Audience Award Dramatic - Love Jones
• Audience Award Dramatic - Hurricane
  Hurricane Streets
  Hurricane Streets is a 1997 American coming-of-age drama which was the debut feature film from writer-director Morgan J. Freeman . The film won the Audience, Best Director, and Best Cinematography Awards at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival—the first film ever to win three awards at the festival...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - Licensed to Kill
  Licensed to Kill (1997 film)
  Licensed to Kill is a 1997 documentary written, directed, and produced by Arthur Dong, in which Dong, interviews various murderers known for their homophobic murders.-Summary:...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - In the Company of Men
  In the Company of Men
  In the Company of Men is a 1997 Canadian/American black comedy written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, and Stacy Edwards...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Family Name
  Family name
  A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - My America ...or Honk if You Love Buddha
• Special Jury Recognition - SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
  SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
  SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist is a 1997 documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about Bob Flanagan, a Los Angeles writer, poet, performance artist, comic, and BDSM celebrity, who suffered from and later died of cystic fibrosis...
  
  
• Latin American Cinema Award - Landscapes of Memory
• Short Filmmaking Award - Man About Town
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Deep Crimson
  Deep Crimson
  Deep Crimson is a 1996 Mexican crime film directed by Arturo Ripstein, written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego and starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Syphon Gun
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Birdhouse
• Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision - Tim Robbins
  Tim Robbins
  Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
  
  

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1998

1998 in film

-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Slam
  Slam (film)
  Slam is a 1998 independent film starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn. It tells the story of a young African-American man whose talent for poetry is hampered by his social background. It won the Grand Jury Prize for a Dramatic Film at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.- Synopsis :Raymond Joshua is a...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Frat House
  Frat House
  Frat House is a documentary film exploring the darker side of fraternity life. The film was directed by Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, and largely filmed at Allentown, Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College; the majority of the film was shot in the house of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, which has...
  
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• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - The Farm: Angola, USA
  The Farm: Angola, USA
  The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in America's infamous maximum security prison in Angola, Louisiana. It was produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus and directed by Stack, Garbus, and Wilbert Rideau....
  
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• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Miss Monday
• Special Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Fishbelly White
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Smoke Signals
  Smoke Signals (film)
  Smoke Signals is an independent film directed and co-produced by Chris Eyre and with a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on the short story "This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona" from his book Lone Ranger and Tonto: Fistfight in Heaven. It won several awards and accolades, and was...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - Divine Trash
  Divine Trash
  Divine Trash is a 1998 documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of John Waters.-Cast:*Steve Yeager*John Waters*Robert Shaye*Mink Stole*Divine *David Lochary *Edith Massey...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Pi
  Pi (film)
  Pi, also titled ,WorldCat gives the title as [Pi] and provides a note which states, "Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi." . Amazon gives the title as Pi with no notation concerning the math symbol . is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Moment of Impact
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - 2by4
  2by4
  2by4 or 2 x 4 is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Jimmy Smallhorne. The screenplay by Smallhorne, Terry McGoff, and Fergus Tighe focuses on the closeted foreman of a construction worker of a New York City construction crew.At the January 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the film was...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Wild Man Blues
  Wild Man Blues
  Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong and recorded by both...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - High Art
  High Art
  High Art is an independent film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell.- Synopsis :Sydney , age 24, is a woman who has her whole life mapped out in front of her...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - The Decline of Western Civilization III
  The Decline of Western Civilization III
  The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris that chronicles the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers. It is the third film of a trilogy by Spheeris depicting life in Los Angeles at various points in time. The first film The Decline of...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema - Who the Hell Is Juliette?
  Who the Hell is Juliette?
  Who the Hell is Juliette? is a Mexican 1997 documentary film directed by Carlos Marcovich and written by Marcovich and Carlos Cuarón. The film is about Yuliet Ortega, a teen prostitute who lives in Havana, Cuba and Fabiola Quiroz, a Mexican model...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Smoke Signals
  Smoke Signals (film)
  Smoke Signals is an independent film directed and co-produced by Chris Eyre and with a screenplay by Sherman Alexie, based on the short story "This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona" from his book Lone Ranger and Tonto: Fistfight in Heaven. It won several awards and accolades, and was...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Out of the Past
  Out of the Past
  Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring , with uncredited revisions by Frank Fenton and James M...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Snake Feed
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Human Remains
• Piper-Heidseick Tribute to Independent Vision - Frances McDormand
  Frances McDormand
  Frances Louise McDormand is an American film and stage actress. She has starred in a number of films, including her Academy Award-winning performance as Marge Gunderson in Fargo, in 1996...
  
  

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1999

1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - American Movie
  American Movie
  American Movie: The Making of Northwestern is a 1999 documentary directed by Chris Smith. The film chronicles the real 1996-1997 making of Coven, an independent horror film directed by an independent filmmaker named Mark Borchardt...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Three Seasons
  Three Seasons
  Three Seasons is an American Vietnamese language movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Ho Chi Minh City in the early days of New Vietnam. It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the urban culture undergoing westernization. The movie takes place in Ho Chi...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Genghis Blues
  Genghis Blues
  Genghis Blues is a documentary film directed by Roko Belic. It centers on the journey of blind American singer Paul Pena to the isolated Asian nation of Tuva due to his interest in Tuvan throat singing....
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Three Seasons
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Three Seasons
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Regret to Inform
  Regret to Inform
  Regret to Inform is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Sonneborn. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature....
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Rabbit in the Moon
• Directing Award Dramatic - Judy Berlin
  Judy Berlin
  Judy Berlin is a 1999 American drama film directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.Mendelsohn won the directing prize for Judy Berlin at the 1999 Sundance International Film Festival...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Regret to Inform
• Freedom of Expression Award - The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Joe the King
  Joe the King
  Joe the King is a 1999 drama film, written and directed by Frank Whaley, based largely on his own childhood and the childhood of his brother. It stars Noah Fleiss, Val Kilmer, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Austin Pendleton, Camryn Manheim, Max Ligosh and James Costa...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Guinevere
  Guinevere (film)
  Guinevere is a film about the artistic and romantic relationship between a young student and her older mentor.The film was written and directed by Audrey Wells and stars Stephen Rea, Sarah Polley, Jean Smart, and Gina Gershon. The running time is 105 minutes. The film was a 1999 Sundance Film...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award - Run Lola Run
  Run Lola Run
  Run Lola Run is a 1998 German crime thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni. The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 German marks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend's life...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award - Train of Life
  Train of Life
  Train of Life is a tragicomedy film by France, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Romania made in 1998 in French language...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic - Tumbleweeds
  Tumbleweeds (1999 film)
  Tumbleweeds is a 1999 American drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor. He co-wrote the screenplay with his then-wife Angela Shelton, who was inspired by her memories of a childhood spent on the road with her serial-marrying mother.-Plot:...
  
  
• Filmmakers Trophy Documentary - Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Stubble Trouble
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Come unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - A Pack of Gifts, Now
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Atomic Tabasco
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Devil Doll/Ring Pull
• Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - Little Saints
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - More
• Special Jury Prize - On the Ropes
• Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - Life is to Whistle
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Happy, Texas
  Happy, Texas (film)
  Happy, Texas is a comedy film released in 1999 directed by Mark Illsley, and starring Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam and William H. Macy.- Plot :...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking - Treasure Island
• Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision - Laura Dern
  Laura Dern
  Laura Elizabeth Dern is an American actress, film director and producer. Dern has acted in such films as Smooth Talk , Blue Velvet , Fat Man and Little Boy , Wild at Heart , Jurassic Park and October Sky...
  
  

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2000

2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Long Night's Journey into Day
  Long Night's Journey into Day
  Long Night's Journey Into Day is a 2000 American documentary film about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-Apartheid South Africa. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.-External links:...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Girlfight
  Girlfight
  Girlfight is a 2000 drama film starring Michelle Rodriguez. It focuses on Diana Guzman, a troubled teen who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, despite the skepticism of both her abusive father and the prospective trainers in the male-dominated sport...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Paragraph 175
  Paragraph 175 (film)
  Paragraph 175 is a documentary film released in 2000, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, and narrated by Rupert Everett. The film was produced by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Janet Cole, Michael Ehrenzweig, Sheila Nevins and Howard Rosenman. The film chronicles the lives of several gay...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - You Can Count on Me
  You Can Count on Me
  You Can Count on Me is a 2000 American drama film starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town, and her complicated relationships with family and friends...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Dark Days
• Audience Award Dramatic - Two Family House
  Two Family House
  Two Family House is a 2000 film based on the story of the uncle of the film's writer and director Raymond De Felitta . The film won the Audience Award at Sundance 2000...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Americanos: Latino Life in The United States
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Committed
  Committed (2000 film)
  - Plot :The ever-optimistic Joline faces a challenge when her husband, flaky news photographer Carl , leaves her to find himself in Texas. Joline tracks Carl down and observes him, acquainting herself with his schedule and new friends - Plot :The ever-optimistic Joline (Heather Graham) faces a...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award - Saving Grace
  Saving Grace (2000 film)
  Track Listing# "Introduction" – 1:02# "Grace's Theme" – 2:42# "Take a Picture" – 5:55# "Make Me Smile " – 4:07# "Spirit in the Sky" – 3:56...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Artistic Achievement - The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
• Special Jury Prize for Writing - George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
• Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast - The Tao of Steve
  The Tao of Steve
  The Tao of Steve is a 2000 romantic comedy film written by Duncan North, Greer Goodman, and Jenniphr Goodman. It is directed by Jenniphr Goodman and stars Donal Logue and Greer Goodman....
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast - Songcatcher
  Songcatcher
  The film's score was written by David Mansfield, who also assembled a roster of female country music artists to perform mostly traditional mountain ballads. Some of the songs are contemporary arrangements, and some are played in the traditional Appalachian music style. The artists include Rosanne...
  
  
• Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - Herod's Law
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Five Feet High and Rising
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - No One Writes to the Colonel
  No One Writes to the Colonel (film)
  No One Writes to the Colonel is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Darling International
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - G.
• Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision - Kevin Spacey
  Kevin Spacey
  Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
  
  

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2001

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Southern Comfort
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - The Believer
• Directing Award Documentary - Dogtown and Z-Boys
  Dogtown and Z-Boys
  Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 documentary film directed by Stacy Peralta. Using a mix of film the Zephyr skateboard team shot in the 1970s by Craig Stecyk and more recent interviews, the documentary tells the story of a group of teenage surfer/skateboarders and their influence on the history of...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)
  Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film based on the stage musical of the same title about a fictional rock band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The film was adapted and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who also portrayed the title role...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Scout's Honor
• World Cinema Audience Award - The Road Home
  The Road Home (1999 film)
  The Road Home is a 2000 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yimou. It also marked the cinematic debut of the Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
  LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
  LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Deborah Dickson, Susan Frömke and Albert Maysles. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards.-Content:...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - The Deep End
  The Deep End (film)
  The Deep End is a 2001 film that was written and directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It stars Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker and Josh Lucas and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film was very loosely adapted from the novel The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Memento
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - In the Bedroom
  In the Bedroom
  In the Bedroom is a 2001 American crime drama film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus, whose short story Killings is the source material on which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Children Underground
  Children Underground
  Children Underground is a 2001 documentary film directed by Edet Belzberg.Homeless children are the casualties of Romania's recent history. In an effort to increase the nation's work force, former communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu outlawed contraception and abortion in 1966. Thousands of unwanted...
  
  
• Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - Possible Loves
• Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - Without a Trace
• Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - Coffin Joe - The Strange World Of José Mojica Marins
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Gina, An Actress, Age 29
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Delusions in Modern Primitivism
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Jigsaw Venus
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Metropopular
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Pie Fight '69
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Sweet
  Sweet (film)
  Sweet is a 2000 short film directed by James Pilkington starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt that is set in Camden, London. The plot is reused in the Mighty Boosh episode, The Nightmare of Milky Joe.-Overview:...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Zen and the Art of Landscaping
• Piper-Heidsieck Award - Julianne Moore
  Julianne Moore
  Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....
  
  

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2002

2002 in film

The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

• Audience Award Documentary - Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony is a 2002 documentary film depicting the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of Apartheid through the use of music. The film takes its name from the Nguni word amandla, which means power.The film was Produced by Sherry Simpson Dean...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Real Women Have Curves
  Real Women Have Curves
  Real Women Have Curves is a 2002 American movie starring America Ferrera. Directed by Patricia Cardoso and produced by George LaVoo from a screenplay by LaVoo and Josefina Lopez , it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in addition to Special Jury Prizes for both...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Sister Helen
• Directing Award Dramatic - Tadpole
  Tadpole (film)
  Tadpole is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Gary Winick and written by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Robert Iler, and Kate Mara.-Plot:...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Blue Vinyl
  Blue Vinyl
  Blue Vinyl is a 2002 documentary film directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand. With a lighthearted tone, the film follows one woman's quest for an environmentally sound cladding for her parents' house in Merrick, Long Island, New York...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
  Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
  Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a 2002 American independent film written and directed by Rebecca Miller.- Plot :Personal Velocity is a tale of three women who have reached a turning point in their lives. Delia is a spirited, working-class woman from a small town in New York state who leaves...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Daughter from Danang
  Daughter from Danang
  Daughter from Đà Nẵng is a 2002 documentary film about an Amerasian, Heidi Bub , born on December 10, 1968, in Danang in southern Vietnam, one of the children brought to the United States from Vietnam in 1975 during "Operation Babylift" at the end of the Vietnam War.Heidi's father was an American...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - No Dumb Questions
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - The Parlor
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Stuck
  Stuck (2002 film)
  Stuck is a 2002 Canadian feature-length video drama film written and directed by Lindsay Bourne. It features Amanda Tapping as Liz, JR Bourne as Bernie, Fred Henderson as Gordon, and Courtney Kramer as Cindy.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Drowning Lessons
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Bus 44
  Bus 44
  Bus 44 written & directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Dayyan Eng in 2001, the short film stars Chinese actress Gong Beibi and Wu Chao. The film won awards at Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and was invited to Cannes Film Festival; the first time a Chinese short film won in all...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Morning Breath
• Jury Prize Latin American Cinema - The Trespasser
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Gasline
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Senorita Extraviada
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - How to Draw a Bunny
  How to Draw a Bunny
  How to Draw a Bunny is a 2002 English documentary film following Ray Johnson.-External links:* New York Times Movie Review...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast - Manito
  Manito (film)
  Manito is a 2002 American Independent film written and directed by first time film maker Eric Eason. Shot in the cinema verite style, Manito chronicles 48 incident-packed hours in the lives of a Washington Heights Latino family....
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Originality - Secretary
  Secretary (film)
  Secretary is a 2002 independent film directed by Steven Shainberg and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway and James Spader as E. Edward Grey...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Love Liza
  Love Liza
  Love Liza is a 2002 tragicomedy film directed by Todd Louiso and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Wayne Duvall, Sarah Koskoff and Stephen Tobolowsky. The film inspired the song "Benzin" by Rammstein.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award - L'ultimo bacio
  L'ultimo bacio
  L'ultimo bacio is a 2001 Italian comedy-drama movie directed by Gabriele Muccino.It was remade into The Last Kiss in 2006 by Tony Goldwyn starring Zach Braff and Rachel Bilson....
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award - Bloody Sunday

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2003

2003 in film

The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

• Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Dopamine
  Dopamine (film)
  -Plot:Rand is a computer animator, who has created an artificial intelligence creature designed to interact with children and teach them responsibility. When his prototype is forced into practice at a school, Rand encounters Sarah, a teacher he was inexplicably drawn to, at his favorite bar one...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - My Flesh and Blood
  My Flesh and Blood (film)
  My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The Tom family is notable as the mother, Susan, adopted eleven children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases. The film itself is notable for handling the sensitive...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - The Station Agent
  The Station Agent
  The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in Newfoundland, New Jersey won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.-Plot:Finbar McBride, a quiet,...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - thirteen
  Thirteen (film)
  Thirteen is a 2003 American drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, the film's co-star. The film also stars Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter. It is a semi-autobiographical film inspired by Reed's life at age 12 and 13 with Wood's character "Tracy" being...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Stevie
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Quattro Noza
• Freedom of Expression Award - What I Want My Words to Do to You
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Capturing the Friedmans
  Capturing the Friedmans
  Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - American Splendor
  American Splendor (film)
  American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Ocularist
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - The Planets
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Pan with Us
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - The Freak
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Asylum
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Fits & Starts
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Earthquake
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - From the 104th Floor
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Terminal Bar
  Terminal Bar (film)
  Terminal Bar is an award winning American documentary short film directed by Stefan Nadelman.-Plot:A fast paced, photo-driven documentary of one of the seediest bars in Times Square, the Terminal Bar, as seen through haunting black and white photographs taken by bartender Sheldon Nadelman from 1972...
  
  
• Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking - One
• Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation - Broken Saints
  Broken Saints
  Broken Saints is an award-winning, partially Flash-animated film series by Brooke Burgess, Ian Kirby, and Andrew West. First published in 2001, it is one of the earliest examples of a motion comic. Like a comic, characters on the most part remain in static poses and dialogue is indicated by speech...
  
  
• Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking - S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse
• Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation - LOR
• Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking - Icarus of Pittsburgh
• Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation - Bumble Beeing
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - The Station Agent
• World Cinema Audience Award - Whale Rider

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2004

2004 in film

The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

• 2004 Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.Each winner is presented...
  
   - Primer
  Primer (film)
  Primer is a 2004 American science fiction drama film about the accidental discovery of a means of time travel. The film was written, directed, and produced by Shane Carruth and was completed on a budget of $7,000...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - Born into Brothels
  Born into Brothels
  Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Maria Full of Grace
  Maria Full of Grace
  Maria Full of Grace is a 2004 joint Colombian-American film, written and directed by Joshua Marston, who won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Although the movie depicts rural life in Colombia, it was actually filmed in Ecuador...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Super Size Me
  Super Size Me
  Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he eats only McDonald's food...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Down to the Bone
  Down to the Bone (film)
  Down to the Bone is a 2005 independent film drama, starring Vera Farmiga, who received a "Best Actress" award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for the role...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Imelda
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - November
  November (film)
  November is a 2004 psychological thriller film first screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. It stars Courteney Cox as Sophie, a photographer whose life begins to unravel following a traumatic incident on November 7 that involved her boyfriend, played by James LeGros...
  
  
• Freedom of Expression Award - Repatriation
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Dig!
  DiG!
  Dig! is a 2004 documentary film directed by Ondi Timoner, and produced by Timoner, Vasco Nunes, and David Timoner. Compiled from seven years of footage, it contrasts the developing careers of the bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and the bands' respective frontmen Courtney...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Primer
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Curtis
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Harvie Krumpet
  Harvie Krumpet
  Harvie Krumpet is an Australian clay animation made in Melbourne written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. This short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003, in addition to numerous festival awards and the 2004 Australian Film Institute Best...
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Krumped
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Papillon D’Amour
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Spokane
  Spokane (film)
  Spokane is a film that premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, written and directed by Larry Kennar. The cast included Kyle Bornheimer and Jason Waters. A short film, with a run time of only 29 minutes....
  
  
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - When the Storm Came
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Gowanus, Brooklyn
• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Tomo
• Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking - Strangers
• Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation - Drum Machine
• Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking - Wet Dreams and False Images
• Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation - Bathtime in Clerkenwell
• Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms - The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Texas Upgringing
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Farmingville
• Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Brother to Brother
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Vera Farmiga
  Vera Farmiga
  Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and director. Farmiga made her film debut in the 1998 drama thriller Return to Paradise. This was followed by supporting roles in the 2000 romantic film Autumn in New York and the 2001 television series UC: Undercover...
  
   for her performance in Down to the Bone
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Larry Gross
  Larry Gross
  Larry Gross is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasionally a director. He won the 2004 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for We Don't Live Here Anymore.-Filmography:...
  
   for We Don't Live Here Anymore
  We Don't Live Here Anymore
  We Don't Live Here Anymore is a 2004 drama film directed by John Curran. It is based on the short stories We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery by Andre Dubus.Set in Washington state, the film was shot around Vancouver.-Cast:...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award Documentary - The Corporation
• World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic - Seducing Doctor Lewis
  Seducing Doctor Lewis
  La grande séduction is a 2003 Québécois comedy film and the first film directed by Jean-François Pouliot. The script was written by Ken Scott. It won the "Audience Award" at 2004 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  

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2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

• Special Jury Prize for Editing - Murderball
• Audience Award Documentary - Murderball
• Audience Award Dramatic - Hustle & Flow
  Hustle & Flow
  Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer and produced by John Singleton. Terrence Howard stars as a Memphis hustler and pimp who faces his aspiration to become a rapper...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Jeff Feuerzeig
  Jeff Feuerzeig
  Jeff Feuerzeig is an American film director and screenwriter best known for The Devil and Daniel Johnston, his profile of cult musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston, for which he was awarded the Directing prize for Documentary at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and which was released...
  
   for The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2006 documentary film about the noted American artist Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession. The film was...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Noah Baumbach
  Noah Baumbach
  Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ...
  
   for The Squid and the Whale
  The Squid and the Whale
  The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named after a giant squid and sperm whale diorama...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - The Education of Shelby Knox
  The Education of Shelby Knox
  The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the coming of age story about the public speaker and feminist, Shelby Knox, a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Hustle & Flow
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Why We Fight
  Why We Fight (2005 film)
  Why We Fight, directed by Eugene Jarecki, is a 2006 documentary film about the military–industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era eponymous propaganda movies commissioned by the U.S...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Forty Shades of Blue
  Forty Shades of Blue
  Forty Shades of Blue is a 2005 independent film directed by Ira Sachs. It tells the story of Alan James , an aging music producer who lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his much younger Russian girlfriend, Laura . Their life together is complicated by the presence of Alan's adult son Michael Forty...
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - One Weekend A Month
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Small Town Secrets
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Victoria Para Chino
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Tama Tu
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Ryan
  Ryan (film)
  Ryan is a 2004 animated documentary by Chris Landreth about the Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse....
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Family Portrait
• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Wasp
  Wasp (film)
  Wasp is a short film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. Released in 2003, it stars Nathalie Press as a struggling single mother determined not to let her four young children prove an obstacle in the pursuit of rekindling a relationship with an old ex-boyfriend Danny Dyer...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - After Innocence
  After Innocence
  After Innocence is a 2005 United States documentary film about men who were exonerated from death row by DNA evidence. Directed by Jessica Sanders, the film took the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival....
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Amy Adams
  Amy Adams (actress)
  Amy Lou Adams is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous...
  
   in Junebug
  Junebug (film)
  Junebug is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison. It was released on August 3, 2005 and stars Amy Adams, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, and Benjamin McKenzie...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Lou Pucci
  Lou Taylor Pucci
  Lou Taylor Pucci is an American actor who first appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's well received Personal Velocity: Three Portraits in 2002....
  
   in Thumbsucker
  Thumbsucker (film)
  Thumbsucker is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Mills adapted from the Walter Kirn novel of the same name. The movie focuses on teenager Justin Cobb and how he copes with his thumb sucking problem, and his experiments with hypnosis, sex and drugs.-Plot:Justin Cobb is a shy...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic - Miranda July
  Miranda July
  Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
  
   writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Me and You and Everyone We Know
  Me and You and Everyone We Know is a 2005 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Miranda July and stars July, John Hawkes, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Natasha Slayton, Najarra Townsend, Carlie Westerman, and JoNell Kennedy.-Plot:The structure of the film consists of...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic - Rian Johnson
  Rian Johnson
  Rian Craig Johnson is an American writer and director, who won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival with his debut feature, Brick.-Background:...
  
   director of Brick
  Brick (film)
  Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It was Johnson's directorial debut and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary - Shape of the Moon
  Shape of the Moon
  Shape of the Moon is a Dutch/Indonesian documentary film from 2004 directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 24 November 2004 as opening film of IDFA ....
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic - The Hero
  The Hero (2004 film)
  The Hero is a film about the life of average Angolans after the Angolan Civil War. The film follows the lives of three individuals; Vitório, a war veteran crippled by a landmine who returns to Luanda, Manu, a young boy searching for his soldier father, and Joana, a teacher who mentors the boy and...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic - Brothers
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - The Liberace of Baghdad
  The Liberace of Baghdad
  The Liberace of Baghdad is a 2005 British documentary film by filmmaker Sean McAllister focusing on the life and music of Iraqi pianist Samir Peter and his family in wartime Baghdad. The film received a 2005 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury award as well as the 2005 British Independent Film...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - Wall
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic - The Forest For the Trees
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Live-In Maid

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2006

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

• 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.Each winner is presented...
  
   - The House of Sand
  The House of Sand
  The House of Sand is a 2005 Brazilian film directed by Andrucha Waddington. It stars real life mother and daughter Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres...
  
  
• Audience Award Documentary - God Grew Tired of Us
  God Grew Tired of Us
  God Grew Tired of Us is a 2006 documentary film about three of the "Lost Boys of Sudan", a group of some 25,000 young men who have fled the wars in Sudan since the 1980s, and their experiences as they move to the United States. The film was written and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn...
  
  
• Audience Award Dramatic - Quinceañera
  Quinceañera (film)
  Quinceañera is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. It was released as Echo Park, LA in UK. Set in Echo Park, Los Angeles, the film follows the lives of two young Mexican American cousins who become estranged from their families: Magdalena...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - James Longley director of Iraq in Fragments
  Iraq in Fragments
  Iraq in Fragments is a documentary feature directed by James Longley. Longley shot the film in Digital Video on a Panasonic DVX100 miniDV camcorder. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film is also a part of the Iraq Media Action Project film collection. It was nominated for...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Dito Montiel
  Dito Montiel
  Dito Montiel, born as Orlandito Montiel, is an American author, screenwriter, director and musician.Born in New York City, he came into the public eye after the breakup of his hardcore punk band Major Conflict...
  
   for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
  A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
  A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American drama film based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s....
  
  
• Editing Award Documentary - Iraq in Fragments
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - James Longley for Iraq in Fragments
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Tom Richmond for Right at Your Door
  Right at Your Door
  Right at Your Door is a 2006 American thriller film about a couple and follows the events surrounding them when multiple dirty bombs detonate in Los Angeles....
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - God Grew Tired of Us
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Quinceañera
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Before Dawn
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Undressing My Mother
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Bugcrush
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - The Wraith of Cobble Hill
• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Natural Route
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - American Blackout
  American Blackout
  American Blackout is a documentary film directed by Ian Inaba. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film chronicles the 2002 defeat, and 2004 reelection, of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to the U.S...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - TV Junkie
• Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision Dramatic - In Between Days
  In Between Days (film)
  In Between Days is a 2006 film directed by So Yong Kim about a young girl from Korea and her coming of age in her new surroundings. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and was released into select theaters on June 27, 2007.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Hilary Brougher for Stephanie Daley
  Stephanie Daley
  Stephanie Daley — retitled What She Knew for US television — is an award-winning 2006 film starring Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton. The film, which received a limited release in North America on April 20, 2007, focuses on the issue of teenage pregnancy...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award Documentary - De Nadie
  De Nadie
  De Nadie is a documentary by Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal on the impoverished Central Americans who leave their countries in hope of a better life in the United States...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic - No. 2
• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary - In the Pit
  In the Pit
  In the Pit is a 2006 documentary by Juan Carlos Rulfo. The film won several awards, including the Jury's Prize for Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic - 13 Tzameti
  13 Tzameti
  13 Tzameti is a 2005 film written and directed by Georgian filmmaker Géla Babluani. "Tzameti" is the Georgian word for thirteen. 13 Tzameti is the feature length directorial debut for Babluani...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - Into Great Silence
  Into Great Silence
  Into Great Silence is a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was first released in 2005. It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in the French Alps . The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - Dear Pyongyang
  Dear Pyongyang
  Dear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Young-Hee about her own family. Shot in Osaka Japan and Pyongyang, North Korea, the film features Korean dialogue with Japanese subtitles. The US release has Japanese and Korean dialogue with English subtitles...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Eve and the Fire Horse
  Eve and the Fire Horse
  Eve and the Fire Horse is a 2005 Canadian film written and directed by Julia Kwan. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Claude Jutra Award for the best feature film by a first-time film director in Canada.-Plot:...
  
  

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2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

• 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.Each winner is presented...
  
   - Dark Matter
  Dark Matter (film)
  Dark Matter is the first feature film by opera director Chen Shi-zheng, starring Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn and Meryl Streep. It won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival....
  
  
• Audience Award: Documentary - Hear and Now
  Hear and Now
  Hear and Now is a 2007 documentary film by Irene Taylor Brodsky, winning awards in 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival and the Heartland Film Festival; and garnering a Peabody Award in 2008.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance
  War/Dance
  War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
  Rocket Science (film)
  Rocket Science is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, and starring Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Vincent Piazza, and Aaron Yoo...
  
  
• Editing Award Documentary - Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for Nanking
  Nanking (film)
  Nanking is a 2007 film about the 1937 Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese army in the former capital city Nanjing, China. The film draws on letters and diaries from the era as well as archive footage and interviews with surviving victims and perpetrators of the massacre...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  Manda Bala is a U.S. documentary film directed by Jason Kohn about corruption and kidnapping in Brazil.Kohn has said "I really thought of Manda Bala as a non-fiction RoboCop depicting a very real, broken, and violent society." It premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Benoît Debie
  Benoît Debie
  Benoît Debie is a Belgian cinematographer. He is currently working on Marilyn Manson's first feature film: Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll.-Selected filmography:* Irréversible * The Card Player...
  
   for Joshua
  Joshua (2007 film)
  Joshua is a 2007 American psychological horror/thriller film about an affluent young Manhattan family and how they are torn apart by the increasingly sadistic behavior of their disturbed son, Joshua. The film was directed by George Ratliff and stars Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga and Jacob Kogan...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic - Padre Nuestro
  Padre Nuestro
  Padre Nuestro , also known as Sangre de Mi Sangre is a U.S. film written and directed by Christopher Zalla, produced by Benjamin Odell and Per Melita and starring Jesús Ochoa, Armando Hernández, Jorge Adrián Espíndola, and Paola Mendoza...
  
  
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Death to the Tinman
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - t.o.m.
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand)
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Spitfire 944
  Spitfire 944
  Spitfire 944 is a short documentary in which an 83-year-old World War II pilot views 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash-landing for the first time, sixty-one years after the event.- Behind the scenes :...
  
  
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Motodrom
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - The Fighting Cholitas
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Everything Will Be OK
  Everything Will Be OK
  Everything Will Be OK is a 2006 animated short film by Don Hertzfeldt. It is the first chapter of a planned three-part story about Bill, the protagonist. Hertzfeldt released the second film in the series, titled I am so proud of you, in 2008....
  
  
• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Tube With a Hat
• Special Jury Prize: Documentary - No End in Sight
  No End in Sight
  No End in Sight is a 2007 documentary film about the American occupation of Iraq. The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award winning documentary film producer Charles H. Ferguson. The film premiered January 22, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film opened in limited release...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Freeheld
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Jess Weixler in Teeth
  Teeth (film)
  Teeth is a 2007 comedy horror film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, about a teenage girl who has teeth in her vagina. It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the independent drama category...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind
  Four Sheets to the Wind
  Four Sheets to the Wind is a 2007 independent drama film written and directed by Sterlin Harjo.-Cast:* Cody Lightning – Cufe Smallhill* Tamara Podemski – Miri Smallhill* Laura Bailey – Francie* Jeri Arredondo – Cora Smallhill* Jon Proudstar – Jim...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Singularity of Vision Dramatic - Chris Smith, director of The Pool
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - James C. Strouse
  James C. Strouse
  James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote the film Lonesome Jim , directed by Steve Buscemi. He wrote and made his directorial debut with Grace Is Gone starring John Cusack. Strouse won an Audience Award for most popular dramatic feature and the Waldo Salt...
  
   for Grace Is Gone
  Grace Is Gone
  Grace Is Gone is a 2007 drama film starring John Cusack as a father who does not want to tell his two daughters that their mother has died while serving in Iraq...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - In the Shadow of the Moon
  In the Shadow of the Moon
  In the Shadow of the Moon is a 2006 British documentary film about the United States' manned missions to the Moon. It premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award. In March 2008, it was the first film to win the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Film...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Once
  Once (film)
  Once is a 2006 Irish musical film written and directed by John Carney. Set in Dublin, this naturalistic drama stars musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as musicians...
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary - Enemies of Happiness
  Enemies of Happiness
  Enemies of Happiness is a 2006 documentary about the controversial Afghan politician and member of the Afghan Parliament Malalai Joya filmed by Danish director Eva Mulvad....
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic - Sweet Mud
  Sweet Mud
  Adama Meshuga'at or Sweet Mud in English is a 2006 Israeli satirical drama film written and directed by Dror Shaul.- Synopsis :Set in 1974, Dvir is soon to turn 13 and lives with his mom Miri at a progressive kibbutz populated by people who take pride in their open-minded attitudes...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - Hot House
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic - L' Héritage (The Legacy)

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2008

2008 in film

This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Sleep Dealer
  Sleep Dealer
  Sleep Dealer is a 2008 futuristic science fiction film directed by Alex Rivera.-Plot:'Sleep Dealer' is set in a future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, where three strangers risk their lives to connect with...
  
  
• Audience Award: Documentary - Fields of Fuel
• Audience Award: Dramatic - The Wackness
  The Wackness
  The Wackness is a 2008 American coming of age drama film by Jonathan Levine and starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, and Olivia Thirlby. The film is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and was released in the U.S. on July 3, 2008.-Plot:...
  
  
• Directing Award: Documentary - American Teen
  American Teen
  American Teen is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nanette Burstein and produced by 57th & Irving. It competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Directing Award: Documentary...
  
  
• Directing Award: Dramatic - Ballast
  Ballast (film)
  Ballast is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography...
  
  
• Editing Award Documentary - Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired is a 2008 documentary film directed by Marina Zenovich. It concerns film director Roman Polanski and his sexual misconduct case...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Patti Smith: Dream of Life
  Patti Smith: Dream of Life
  Patti Smith: Dream of Life is a 2008 documentary film about Patti Smith directed by Steven Sebring. It was presented at Berlin International Film Festival. The movie won the "Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary" at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and aired on the PBS series P.O.V...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Ballast
• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Trouble the Water
  Trouble the Water
  Trouble the Water is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, producers of Fahrenheit 9/11. Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of a couple surviving failed levees, bungling bureaucrats, and their own troubled past and a portrait of a community abandoned long...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Frozen River
  Frozen River
  Frozen River is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt. The screenplay focuses on two working-class women who smuggle illegal immigrants in the trunk of a car from Canada to the United States in order to make ends meet...
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Aquarium
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - August 15th
  August 15th (2008 film)
  August 15th is a 2008 Sundance Film Festival Short Film that has received Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking. It is available for download from online sources, including iTunes Store, Netflix, and Xbox Live Marketplace.- Plot summary :...
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - La Corona (The Crown)
  La Corona (film)
  La Corona is a 2007 short documentary film about a beauty pageant in a prison for women, directed by Amanda Micheli. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short....
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Oiran Lyrics
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Spider
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Suspension
  Suspension (film)
  Suspension is a 2008 American science fiction film directed by Alec Joler and Ethan Shaftel. It won the 2007 Spirit of the Independent Award for Best Science Fiction Film....
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - W.
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - My Olympic Summer
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Sikumi (On the Ice)
• Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking - Soft
• Special Jury Prize: Documentary - The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
  The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
  The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo is a 2008 documentary film directed by Lisa F. Jackson. The film tells of the treatment of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, focusing on the systematic use of sexual violence as a tool of war. Lisa F...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence - Anywhere, USA
  Anywhere, U.S.A.
  Anywhere, U.S.A. is a 2008 feature film directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine starring mostly non-actors. The film is told in three parts: Penance, Loss, and Ignorance, with each story obliquely related to the next...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast - Choke
  Choke (film)
  Choke is a 2008 American black comedy film directed by Clark Gregg. The film stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. Production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sleep Dealer
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Captain Abu Raed
  Captain Abu Raed
  Captain Abu Raed is a 2007 Jordanian Film directed and written by Amin Matalqa. It was the first feature film produced in Jordan in more than 50 years. The Royal Film Commission of Jordan endorsed Captain Abu Raed to be submitted to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the...
  
  
• World Cinema Cinematography Award Documentary - Recycle
• World Cinema Directing Award Documentary - Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
• World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic - Mermaid (Rusalka)
  Mermaid (2007 film)
  Mermaid is a Russian 2007 comedy-drama film directed and written by Anna Melikyan. It is a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"...
  
  
• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary - Man on Wire
  Man on Wire
  Man on Wire is a 2008 British documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently released in paperback with the new title...
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
• World Cinema Screenwriting Award - I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J'ai Toujours Rêvé d'Être un Gangster)
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)

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2009

2009 in film

The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...

• 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  Alfred P. Sloan Prize
  The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. The prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.Each winner is presented...
  
   - Adam
• Audience Award: Dramatic - Precious
  Precious (film)
  Precious , is a 2009 American drama film directed by Lee Daniels. Precious is an adaptation by Geoffrey S. Fletcher of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, and Paula Patton...
  
  
• Audience Award: Documentary - The Cove
• Directing Award Dramatic - Cary Joji Fukunaga
  Cary Joji Fukunaga
  Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American film director, writer and cinematographer.-Early life:Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, has lived in various places such as France and Japan, and now he resides in New York City. His father is Japanese and his mother is Swedish...
  
   for Sin Nombre
  Sin Nombre (2009 film)
  Sin Nombre is an American and Mexican film written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.Filmed in Spanish, the film's name means "Nameless"...
  
  
• Directing Award Documentary - Natalia Almada for El General
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Adriano Goldman
  Adriano Goldman
  Adriano Goldman is a Brazilian director and cinematographer born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He won "Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic" during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his cinematography in Cary Joji Fukunaga's 2009 film Sin Nombre....
  
   for Sin Nombre
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Bob Richman for The September Issue
  The September Issue
  The September Issue is a 2009 American documentary film about the behind-the-scenes drama that follows editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her staff during the production of the September 2007 issue of American Vogue magazine. The film is directed by R.J. Cutler and produced by Eliza Hindmarch and...
  
  
• Editing Award Documentary - Karen Schmeer
  Karen Schmeer
  Karen Schmeer was a film editor who frequently collaborated with filmmaker Errol Morris.-Early life:...
  
   for Sergio
• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Precious
  Precious (film)
  Precious , is a 2009 American drama film directed by Lee Daniels. Precious is an adaptation by Geoffrey S. Fletcher of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, and Paula Patton...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - We Live in Public
  We Live in Public
  We Live in Public is a 2009 documentary by Ondi Timoner which profiles Internet pioneer Josh Harris. It has as its theme the loss of privacy in the internet age.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Omelette
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Jerrycan
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Western Spaghetti
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - I Live in the Woods
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Love You More
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Protect You + Me.
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking - Treevenge
  Treevenge
  Treevenge is a short film written and directed by Jason Eisener, and produced by Yer Dead Productions. Shooting started in November 2007, and ended in February 2008. Post-production was completed in June 2008. The film stars Jonathan Torrens, Sarah E...
  
  
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Short Term 12
• Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking - Lies
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Good Hair
  Good Hair
  Good Hair is a 2009 American comedy documentary film produced by Chris Rock Productions and HBO Films, starring and narrated by comedian Chris Rock. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2009, Good Hair was released to select theaters in the United States by Roadside Attractions...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence - Humpday
  Humpday
  Humpday is a 2009 American comedy film starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, and Alycia Delmore; and directed, produced, and written by Lynn Shelton. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance film festival. International distribution rights have been purchased by Magnolia Pictures for a mid-six figure sum...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Mo'Nique for Precious
  Precious (film)
  Precious , is a 2009 American drama film directed by Lee Daniels. Precious is an adaptation by Geoffrey S. Fletcher of the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, and Paula Patton...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi
  Charlyne Yi
  Charlyne Amanda Yi is an American actress, comedian, musician, writer, and painter. Her performances do not include joke-telling as in standup comedy; instead, she uses different tactics such as music, magic, games, and often audience participation...
  
   for Paper Heart
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Afghan Star
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - An Education
  An Education
  An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film, based on an autobiographical article in Granta by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David,...
  
  
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - John Maringouin
  John Maringouin
  John Maringouin is an American film director.His debut feature, Running Stumbled, received wide critical acclaim and was referred to by Variety as a "phantasmagoric filmmaking debut" Despite acclaim, a Spirit Award nomination, and a brief release in the UK, the film is unavailable in the United...
  
   for Big River Man
  Big River Man
  Big River Man is a 2009 documentary film directed by John Maringouin. It follows the Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel as he swims the entire 3,300 mile length of the Amazon River, between February and April 2007....
  
  
• World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Havana Marking
  Havana Marking
  Havana Marking is a British producer and director of documentary films. She is best known for the 2009 film Afghan Star which won the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.Marking was born in England and moved to the United States as a child...
  
   for Afghan Star
• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros for Burma VJ
  Burma VJ
  Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 uprisings against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras, and the footage was smuggled out of the country...
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary - Rough Aunties
  Rough Aunties
  Rough Aunties is a 2008 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto about a group of women who protect and care for abused, neglected and forgotten children in Durban, South Africa. It won the Grand Jury Prize in the 'World Cinema — Documentary' category at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival....
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic - The Maid (La Nana)
  The Maid (2009 film)
  The Maid is a 2009 comedy-drama film, directed by Sebastián Silva and co-written by Silva and Pedro Peirano. It has won numerous awards since its premiere at the 25th Annual Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Guy Hibbert
  Guy Hibbert
  Guy Hibbert is an award-winning screenwriter. He wrote the 2009 film Five Minutes of Heaven. This film was premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival, where Hibbert won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award.-External links:...
  
   for Five Minutes of Heaven
  Five Minutes of Heaven
  Five Minutes of Heaven is a British/Irish film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film was premiered on January 19, 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - Tibet in Song
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting - Catalina Saavedra
  Catalina Saavedra
  Catalina Saavedra Pérez is a Chilean film, stage and television actress. She is better known to international audiences as the title character in the 2009 film The Maid, for which she received several awards and nominations.-Career:...
  
   for The Maid (La Nana)
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality - Louise-Michel

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2010

2010 in film

The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...

• Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Obselidia
  Obselidia
  Obselidia is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Diane Bell, starring Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe and Frank Hoyt Taylor. The Film won two awards at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: the Excellence in Cinematography award and the Alfred P...
  
  
• Audience Award: Dramatic - happythankyoumoreplease
  Happythankyoumoreplease
  happythankyoumoreplease is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Josh Radnor in his directorial debut. The film stars Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri, Pablo Schreiber, and Tony Hale, and it tells the story of a group of young New Yorkers, struggling to...
  
  
• Audience Award: Documentary - Waiting for "Superman"
• Best of NEXT - Homewrecker
• Directing Award Documentary - Smash His Camera
  Smash His Camera
  Smash His Camera is a 2010 documentary film directed by filmmaker Leon Gast about the life and career of paparazzi photographer Ron Galella. In early 2010, the film won "Best Director" of a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, began a limited U.S. theatrical release on 30 July 2010 through...
  
  
• Directing Award Dramatic - 3 Backyards
  3 Backyards
  3 Backyards is a film written and directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance International Film Festival, where it won the Directing Prize, as did Mendelsohn's first feature, Judy Berlin; Mendelsohn is the only director to have won the prize twice.The independent film was...
  
  
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic - Obselidia
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary - The Oath
  The Oath (2010 film)
  The Oath is a 2010 documentary from director Laura Poitras. It tells the cross-cut tale of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose meeting launched them on juxtaposed paths with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, US military tribunals and the U.S. Supreme Court...
  
  
• Editing Award Documentary - Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is a 2010 documentary film about the life and career of comedienne Joan Rivers. It premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival at the Castro Theatre on May 6, 2010.-Cast:* Joan Rivers* Melissa Rivers...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Restrepo
  Restrepo (film)
  Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington....
  
  
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Born Sweet
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Can We Talk?
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - How I Met Your Father
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Quadrangle
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Rob and Valentyna in Scotland
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Young Love
• Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking - The Six Dollar Fifty Man
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking - Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln
• Special Jury Prize Documentary - Gasland
  Gasland
  Gasland is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. The film focuses on communities in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling and, specifically, a stimulation method known as hydraulic fracturing.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Special Jury Prize Dramatic - Sympathy for Delicious
  Sympathy for Delicious
  Sympathy for Delicious is a 2010 drama film, and the directorial debut of Mark Ruffalo. Filming took place in Los Angeles.-Plot:A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.-Cast:...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Winter's Bone
  Winter's Bone
  Winter's Bone is a 2010 American independent drama film, an adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Debra Granik and stars Jennifer Lawrence...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award Documentary - Waste Land
  Waste Land (film)
  Waste Land is a 2010 documentary directed by Lucy Walker, João Jardim and Karen Harley. The film documents two years of work of Brazilian contemporary modern artist Vik Muniz in creating art with the cooperation of scavengers of recyclables working at Jardim Gramacho, one of the world's largest...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic - Undertow
  Undertow (2009 film)
  Undertow is a 2009 Peruvian drama film directed by Javier Fuentes-León. The film won the prestigious World Cinema Audience Award in the Dramatic category at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• World Cinema Cinematography Award Documentary - His & Hers
• World Cinema Cinematography Award Dramatic - The Man Next Door
• World Cinema Directing Award Documentary - Space Tourists
• World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic - Southern District
• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - A Film Unfinished
  A Film Unfinished
  A Film Unfinished is a 2010 documentary film by Yael Hersonski, which re-examines the making of an unfinished 1942 Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto two months before its liquidation in a Nazi operation known as the Grossaktion Warsaw...
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary - The Red Chapel (Det Røde Kapel)
  The Red Chapel
  -External links:* The official film website* at the Sundance Film Festival website, including trailer* from The Hollywood Reporter...
  
  
• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic - Animal Kingdom
  Animal Kingdom (film)
  Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville...
  
  
• World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Southern District
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary - Enemies of the People
  Enemies of the People (film)
  Enemies of the People is a 2009 British / Cambodian documentary film written and directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath. The film charts the ten year quest of co-director Sambath to find truth and closure in the Killing Fields of Cambodia...
  
  
• World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting - Grown Up Movie Star
  Grown Up Movie Star
  Grown Up Movie Star is a 2010 Canadian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Adriana Maggs. Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox Gosse and Paul Pope are the other co-producers. The film was produced by Pope Productions and distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media...
  
  

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2011

2011 in film

The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :...

• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - How to Die in Oregon
  How to Die in Oregon
  How to Die in Oregon is a 2011 documentary film produced and directed by Peter Richardson. The film is set in the state of Oregon and covers the state's Death with Dignity Act that allows terminally ill patients to end their own life with medication prescribed by their physician .- Synopsis...
  
  
• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Like Crazy
  Like Crazy
  Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film. The film was directed by Drake Doremus and stars Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. In an interview with The Telegraph, Jones stated that the script was fully improvised...
  
  
• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Hell and Back Again
• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Happy, Happy
  Happy, Happy
  Happy, Happy is a 2010 Norwegian comedy film directed by Anne Sewitsky. The film has been selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Agnes Kittelsen as Kaja* Henrik Rafaelsen as Sigve...
  
  
• Audience Award: Documentary - Buck
  Buck (film)
  Buck is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of the real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Audience Award: Dramatic - Circumstance
  Circumstance (2011 film)
  Circumstance is a 2011 dramatic film written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz. It explores homosexuality in modern Iran.-Plot:Atafeh is the teenage daughter of a well-to-do Iranian family in Tehran...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Senna
  Senna (film)
  Senna is a 2010 documentary film that depicts the life and death of Brazilian motor-racing champion, Ayrton Senna. It is Asif Kapadia's fourth feature film as director, and is produced by ESPN/Working Title and distributed by Universal Pictures/Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Kinyarwanda
  Kinyarwanda (film)
  Kinyarwanda tells the story of hope, redemption and religious tolerance in the midst of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. The film marks Brown's directorial debut.-Cast:* Edouard...
  
  
• Best of NEXT Audience Award - to.get.her
• Directing Award: Documentary - Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
  Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
  Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, directed by Jon Foy, is an 2011 independent documentary film about the Toynbee tile phenomenon. The film was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S...
  
  
• Directing Award: Dramatic - Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Martha Marcy May Marlene is a 2011 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Sean Durkin, and starring Elizabeth Olsen , John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, and Hugh Dancy...
  
  
• World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - James Marsh for Project Nim
  Project Nim (film)
  -Synopsis:The film focuses on Project Nim, which follows a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky.-Reception:Project Nim has received an aggregated score of 98% from 114 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes....
  
  
• World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur
  Tyrannosaur (film)
  Tyrannosaur is a 2011 British drama film written and directed by actor Paddy Considine .The film depicts an environment similar to what Considine witnessed growing up on a council estate in the Midlands, although the film is in no way autobiographical...
  
  
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sam Levinson for Another Happy Day
  Another Happy Day
  Another Happy Day is a 2011 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Sam Levinson.-Plot:Lynn was married to Paul , but they split up on bad terms, and Lynn took custody of their daughter Alice while Paul got their son Dylan...
  
  
• World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award - Erez Kav-El for Restoration
• Documentary Editing Award - Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Curry for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a documentary film by filmmaker Marshall Curry, exploring the origins, motives, and organization of the Earth Liberation Front and Eco-terrorism in general...
  
  
• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist for The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Eric Strauss, Ryan Hill and Peter Hutchens for The Redemption of General Butt Naked
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Bradford Young for Pariah
  Pariah (2011 film)
  Pariah is a 2011 contemporary drama film written and directed by Dee Rees. It tells the story of Alike , a 17-year old African–American teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian....
  
  
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Dangfung Dennis for Hell and Back Again
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Diego F. Jimenez for All Your Dead Ones
• World Dramatic Special Jury Prizes for Breakout Performances - Paddy Considine and Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize - Position Among the Stars
  Position Among the Stars
  Position Among the Stars is a 2010 documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 17 November 2010 as opening film of IDFA ....
  
  
• Documentary Special Jury Prize - Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
  Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
  Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Constance Marks about Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind Elmo, the widely beloved Sesame Street character.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Dramatic Special Jury Prize - Another Earth
  Another Earth
  Another Earth is a 2011 American science fantasy/drama film directed by Mike Cahill in his feature film debut. The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and is being distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.-Synopsis:Rhoda...
  
  
• Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance - Felicity Jones for Like Crazy
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Brick Novax Pt 1 and 2
• International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Deeper Than Yesterday
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Choke
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Diarchy
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - The External World
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - The Legend of Beaver Dam
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Out of Reach
• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Protoparticles
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Another Earth
  Another Earth
  Another Earth is a 2011 American science fantasy/drama film directed by Mike Cahill in his feature film debut. The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and is being distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.-Synopsis:Rhoda...
  
  
• Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards - Bogdan Mustata of Romania for Wolf, Ernesto Contrera of Mexico for I Dream In Another Language, Seng Tat Liew of Malaysia for In What City Does It Live?, and Talya Lavie of Israel for Zero Motivation
• Sundance Institute/NHK Award - Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer

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