Sundance 2015: Winners!


"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" is big winner taking both the U.S. Dramatic Feature Jury Prize and the coveted U.S. Dramatic Audience Award!

"Dark Horse", "Umrika", "Slow West", "The Russian Woodpecker", "The Stanford Prison Experiment", "The Wolfpack", "Meru" are all winners!


"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

WINNERS!

U.S. DRAMATIC

Grand Jury Prize (U.S. Dramatic)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl / U.S.A. (Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews) — Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia. Cast: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon.

Directing Award (U.S. Dramatic)
Robert Eggers, The Witch

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (U.S. Dramatic)
Tim Talbott, The Stanford Prison Experiment

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision
Advantageous

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Editing
Lee Haugen, Dope

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography
Brandon Trost, The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize 
The Stanford Prison Experiment / U.S.A. (Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Screenwriter: Tim Talbott) — This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time. Cast: Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Johnny Simmons, Olivia Thirlby.

U.S. Dramatic Audience Award
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl / U.S.A. (Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)


U.S. DOCUMENTARY

U.S. Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
The Wolfpack / U.S.A. (Director: Crystal Moselle) — Six bright teenage brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in a Manhattan housing project. All they know of the outside is gleaned from the movies they watch obsessively (and recreate meticulously). Yet as adolescence looms, they dream of escape, ever more urgently, into the beckoning world.

Directing Award (U.S. Documentary)  
Matthew Heineman, Cartel Land

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography 
Matthew Heineman, Cartel Land

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Break Out First Feature  
Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe, (T)ERROR

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking  
Bill Ross, Turner Ross, Western

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact  
Marc Silver, 3½ MINUTES

U.S. Documentary Audience Award
Meru / U.S.A. (Directors: Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi) — Three elite mountain climbers sacrifice everything but their friendship as they struggle through heartbreaking loss and nature's harshest elements to attempt the never-before-completed Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, the most coveted first ascent in the dangerous game of Himalayan big wall climbing.


WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic
Slow West / New Zealand (Director: John Maclean, Screenwriters: John Maclean, Michael Lesslie) — Set at the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas, a mysterious traveler, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way. Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Rory McCann, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooke Williams, Caren Pistorius. World Premiere

Directing Award (World Cinema Dramatic)  
Alanté Kavaïté, The Summer of Sangaile

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting  
Regina Casé and Camila Márdila, The Second Mother

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting  
Jack Reynor, Glassland

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography 
Germain McMicking, Partisan

World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
Umrika / India (Director and screenwriter: Prashant Nair) — When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his behalf to save their mother from heartbreak, all the while searching for him. Cast: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Smita Tambe, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Prateik Babbar. World Premiere


WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
The Russian Woodpecker / United Kingdom (Director: Chad Gracia) — A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war. World Premiere

Directing Award (World Cinema Documentary)  
Kim Longinotto, Dreamcatcher

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing  
Jim Scott, How To Change The World

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact  
Pervert Park

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access  
Pervert Park

World Cinema Documentary Audience Award
Dark Horse / United Kingdom (Director: Louise Osmond) — Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a workingman's club who decide to take on the elite "sport of kings" and breed themselves a racehorse. World Premiere


NEXT

Audience Award
James White / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Josh Mond) — A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges. Cast: Chris Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Makenzie Leigh, David Call. World Premiere


SHORT FILMS

Short Film Grand Jury Prize: World of Tomorrow
Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: SMILF
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Oh Lucy!
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction: The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Storm hits jacket
Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting: Back Alley
Short Film Special Jury Award for Visual Poetry: Object

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Raymond Lo

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