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| Miles Teller in Whiplash Photo: Daniel McFadden |
Damien Chazelle's jazz drumming drama Whiplash beat a path to the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which is based on the short which won the top prize at Sundance last year, stars Miles Teller as a driven young musician who locks horns with a sadistic conductor (JK Simmons).
The World Dramatic prize went to Alejandro Fernandez for To Kill A Man, with Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos taking home the US Grand Jury Prize for documenatry for Rich Hill and the World Cinema Grand Jury Documentary prize going to Talal Derki for Return To Homs.
The full list of awards is below...
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary Return to Homs, dir Talal Derki
The World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic To Kill A Man, Alejandro Fernandez
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Rich Hill, Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo
Grandy Jury Prize: Dramatic Whiplash, Damien Chazelle
Special Jury prize Us doc "for intuitive filmmaking" The Overnighters dir Jesse Moss
Special Jury Prize for animation in US doc: Watchers Of The Sky Edet Belzberg
The Audience Award: Documentary Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, Michael Rossato-Bennett
The Audience Award: Dramatic Whiplash, Damien Chazelle
The World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary Difret, Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic The Green Prince, Nadav Schirman
The Best of NEXT audience award Imperial Dreams, Malik Vitthal
US Documentary Directing Award: The Case Against 8, Ben Cotner, Ryan White
US Dramatic Directing Award: Cutter Hodierne, Fishing Without Nets
The World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary 20,000 Days On Earth, Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth
The World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic Sophie Hyde, 52 Tuesdays
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Craig Johnson, Mark Heyman, The Skeleton Twins
The World Cinema Screenwriting AwardEskil Vogt, Blind
The Documentary Editing Award Watchers Of The Sky, Jenny Golden, Karen Sim
US Cinematography E-Team Rachel Beth Anderson and Ross Kauffman
The World Cinema Documentary Editing Award 20,000 Days On Earth, Jonathan Amos
The Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary Happiness, cinematographers: Thomas Balmes and Nina Bernfeld #sundance
The Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic Christopher Blauvelt, Low Down
The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary Happiness, Thomas Balmes and Nina Bernfeld
The World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic Lilting, Ula Pontikos
A Special Jury Prize: World Documentary We Come As Friends, Dir: Hubert Sauper "a visionary masterpiece"
A Special Jury Prize: World Dramatic For "delightful ensemble performance and how the director brought his own unique universe into cinema" God Help The Girl, Stuart Murdoch
A Special Jury Prize: Dramatic for score by The Octopus Project for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
US Dramatic Special jury Award for Breakthrough Talent Dear White People, dir Justin Simien
Previously announced awards
Alfred P Sloan Award I Origins; The Buried Life by Joan Stein Schimke and Averie Storck receives Sundance Institute / Alfred P. Sloan Lab Fellowship
The winning directors and projects of the Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world The winning directors and projects are Hong Khaou, MONSOON from Vietnam/UK; Tobias Lindholm, A WAR from Denmark; Ashlee Page, ARCHIVE from Australia; and Neeraj Ghaywan, FLY AWAY SOLO from India.
The Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award Ad Inexplorata
Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Award for a completed feature film was presented to
Sundance Institute Indian Paintbrush Producer’s Award
The Short Film Grand Jury Prize Of God and Dogs / Syrian Arab Republic (Director: Abounaddara Collective) — A young, free Syrian soldier confesses to killing a man he knew was innocent. He promises to take vengeance on the God who led him to commit the murder.
The Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction Gregory Go Boom / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Janicza Bravo) — A paraplegic man leaves home to be on his own.
The Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction The Cut / Canada (Director and screenwriter: Geneviève Dulude-Decelles) — The Cut tells the story of a father and a daughter, whose relationship fluctuates between proximity and detachment, at the moment of a haircut.
The Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked / Israel (Directors: Yuval Hameiri, Michal Vaknin) — A man with poor means recreates a lost memory of the last day with his mom. Objects come to life in a desperate struggle to produce a single moment that is gone.
The Short Film Jury Award: Animation Yearbook / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Bernardo Britto) — A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.
A Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision Rat Pack Rat / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Todd Rohal) — A Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, hired to visit a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself performing the last rites at the boy's bedside.
A Short Film Special Jury Award for Non-fiction Love. Love. Love. / Russia (Director: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram) — Every year, through the endless winters, her love takes new shapes and forms.
A Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting Burger / United Kingdom, No
Youtube Shorts Audience award Chapel Prilous, dir Matthew Lessner
