Ryan Coogler’s ‘Fruitvale’ tops Sundance awardsPosted by Wilson Morales
January 26, 2013
Source: Variety
“Fruitvale,” Ryan Coogler‘s fact-based drama about the last day in the life of 22-year-old shooting victim Oscar Grant, won the grand jury prize and the audience award for dramatic features at the Sundance Film Festival.
In another dual win, “Blood Brother,” Steve Hoover‘s study of an American’s work on behalf of an AIDS-afflicted community in India, took both the grand jury prize and the audience award for U.S. documentaries.
Lake Bell took the Waldo Salt screenwriting prize for her writing-directing debut, “In a World … ”
World Cinema grand jury prizes were awarded to “Jiseul” (dramatic) and “A River Changes Course” (docu), while the audience awards were presented to “Metro Manila” (dramatic) and “The Square” (docu).
The World Cinema special jury prizes went to “Circles,” Serbian helmer Srdan Golubovic’s multistranded drama, and “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer,” Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin‘s pic about the titular Russian band.
Excellence in cinematography prizes were awarded to Bradford Young for two films, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” and “Mother of George” (U.S. dramatic); Richard Rowley for “Dirty Wars” (U.S. docu); Michal Englert, “Lasting” (World Cinema dramatic); and Marc Silver and Pau Esteve Birba, “Who is Dayani Cristal?” (World Cinema documentary).
The Sundance Institute/NHK Award for emerging filmmakers was presented to helmer Kentaro Hagiwara for his upcoming debut, “Spectacled Tiger.” A past recipient of the prize, Cherien Dabis, directed this year’s dramatic competition entry “May in the Summer.”
As announced on Friday, the $20,000 Alfred P. Sloan prize, presented annually to a film that focuses on science/technology as a theme, was given to Andrew Bujalski’s Next entry “Computer Chess,” a 1980-set comedy about a weekend-long tournament for chess software programmers.
Announced earlier in the week, the Sundance Institute/Mahindra Globe Filmmaking Award for emerging independent filmmakers was presented to Aly Muritaba, “The Man Who Killed My Beloved Dead”; Eva Weber, “Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name”; Jonas Carpignano, “A Chjana”; and Sarthak Dasgupta, “The Music Teacher.”J
The awards ceremony was hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, whose directing debut, “Don Jon’s Addiction,” screened in the Premieres category and was acquired by Relativity Media during the fest.
And the winners are:
Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): “Fruitvale”
Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): “Blood Brother”
Audience Award (Dramatic): “Fruitvale”
Audience Award (Documentary): “Blood Brother”
Directing (Dramatic): Jill Soloway, “Afternoon Delight”
Directing (Documentary): Zachary Heinzerling, “Cutie and the Boxer”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (Dramatic): Lake Bell, “In a World … ”
Cinematography (Dramatic): Bradford Young, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” and “Mother of George”
Cinematography (Documentary): Richard Rowley, “Dirty Wars”
Editing (Documentary): Matthew Hamachek, “Gideon’s Army”
Special Jury Prizes (Dramatic): Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, “The Spectacular Now” (acting) and Shane Carruth and Johnny Marshall, “Upstream Color” (sound design)
Special Jury Prizes (Documentary): “Inequality for All” and “American Promise”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): “Jiseul”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): “A River Changes Course”
World Cinema Audience Award (Dramatic): “Metro Manila”
World Cinema Audience Award (Documentary): “The Square”
Best of Next Audience Award: “This Is Martin Bonner”
World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic): Sebastian Silva, “Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012”
World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary): Tinatin Gurchiani, “The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear”
World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Barmak Akram, “Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)”
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic): Michal Englert, “Lasting”
World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): “Circles”
World Cinema Editing Award (Documentary): Ben Stark, “The Summit”
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary): Marc Silver and Pau Esteve Birba, “Who Is Dayani Cristal?”
World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Documentary): “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer”
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: “Computer Chess”
