My two favorite films I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival fared extremely well at last night's awards ceremony in Park City.
Benh Zeitland's 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'' took the grand jury prize in the U.S. dramatic competition, as well as an award for its striking cinematography. Fox Searchlight will release this wildly unconventional low-budget wonder about life and death in a Southern bayou later this year.
The grand jury prize for ensemble acting went to Ben Lewin's wonderful "The Surrogate'' starring the incredible John Hawkes as a polio-afflected poet and Helen Hunt in the title role, with William H. Macy with a priest. This fact-based film also won the audience award for a U.S. dramatic feature and will also be released by Fox Searchlight -- presumably during the next awards season, when it should do quite well.
The other awards at Saturday night's ceremony, which were hosted by Sundance director John Cooper and Kate Asleton after the originally announced host, Parker Posey, fell ill:
Directing Award, Dramatic:
Ava DuVernay, "Middle of Nowhere"
Directing Award, Documentary:
Lauren Greenfield, "The Queen of Versailles"
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
"Violeta Went To Heaven"
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
"The Law In These Parts"
Documentary Audience Award:
"The Invisible War"
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award:
"Valley of Saints"
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award:
"Searching For Sugar Man"
The Best of NEXT Audience Award:
"Sleepwalk With Me"
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic:
Mads Matthiessen, "Teddy Bear"
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary:
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, "5 Broken Cameras"
Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award:
"Safety Not Guaranteed"
World Cinema Screenwriting Award:
"Young & Wild"
Documentary Editing Award:
"Detropia"
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award:
"Indie Game: The Movie"
Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary:
"Chasing Ice"
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Dramatic:
"My Brother The Devil"
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary:
"Putin's Kiss"
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic (Acting):
The cast of "The Surrogate"
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic:
Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling for producing "Smashed" and "Nobody Walks"
Special Jury Prizes: Documentary:
"Love Free or Die"
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary "Searching For Sugar Man"
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic "Can"
Alfred P. Sloan Prizes
"Robot & Frank"
"Valley of Saints"
Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award:
Jens Assur, "Close Far Away"
Short Film Audience Award:
"The Debutante Hunters," directed by Maria White
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
LOU LUMENICK Lou Lumenick, a native of Astoria, Queens who's been covering movies since 1981, is The Post's chief film critic. He's covered the Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and New York Film Festivals many times. Lou co-curated the Turner Classic Movies film series "Shadows of Russia'' and has appeared on the network as an on-air guest programmer. He will introduce "Design for Living'' on April 29 at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood. Columnist Archives
KYLE SMITH Kyle Smith has been a film critic for the Post since 2005. He also contributes book reviews and columns on current affairs to the Sunday Post and is the author of the novels "Love Monkey," which was adapated into a CBS TV series, and "A Christmas Caroline." He is a graduate of Yale University. Columnist Archives
V.A. MUSETTO V.A. Musetto is a film critic. His specialty is indie and foreign movies, with an emphasis on Asian. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and frequents film festivals from Tokyo to Rotterdam to Transylvania.
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