On Oscar night, a list of Sundance winners, just for something different (cinema, filming)
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I know a lot of people try to watch the big names movies when it comes to Oscar nominations.
So I thought I'd find a list of Sundance winners for when people are still looking for movies to watch.
Sundance
2012
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - The House I Live In
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - The Law in These Parts
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - The Invisible War
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - The Surrogate
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Searching for Sugar Man
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Valley of Saints
Best of NEXT Audience Award - Sleepwalk with Me
U.S. Directing Award: Documentary - The Queen of Versailles
U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic - Middle Of Nowhere
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - 5 Broken Cameras
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Teddy Bear
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Safety Not Guaranteed
World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Young & Wild
U.S. Documentary Editing Award - Detropia
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Indie Game: The Movie
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - Chasing Ice
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - My Brother the Devil
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change - Love Free or Die
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing - Smashed and Nobody Walks
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - The Surrogate
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision - Can
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit - Searching for Sugar Man
Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking - Fishing Without Nets
Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters
I know a lot of people try to watch the big names movies when it comes to Oscar nominations.
So I thought I'd find a list of Sundance winners for when people are still looking for movies to watch.
Sundance
2012
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - The House I Live In
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - The Law in These Parts
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - The Invisible War
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - The Surrogate
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Searching for Sugar Man
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Valley of Saints
Best of NEXT Audience Award - Sleepwalk with Me
U.S. Directing Award: Documentary - The Queen of Versailles
U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic - Middle Of Nowhere
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - 5 Broken Cameras
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Teddy Bear
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Safety Not Guaranteed
World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Young & Wild
U.S. Documentary Editing Award - Detropia
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Indie Game: The Movie
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - Chasing Ice
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - My Brother the Devil
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change - Love Free or Die
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing - Smashed and Nobody Walks
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - The Surrogate
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision - Can
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit - Searching for Sugar Man
Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking - Fishing Without Nets
Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters
My nephew, my sister and I were all extras during the filming of the football game scenes in "Safety Not Guarenteed". We knew at the time that it was a low budget "indie" film and didn't really expect to have it turn out to be much of a film. Well, imagine my surprise when a month or so back I googled "Safety Not Guarenteed" only to find that -
1) It won the "best screenplay" award at the Sundance Film Festival
and
2) The reviews of the film from the festival were glowing (to say the least) - with one reviewer saying the film got the biggest standing ovation of any movie (including some big blockbuster films) at the festival and that it's a "crowd pleaser".
Looks like it might actually turn out to be quite a hit.
The trailer is out now so take a look:
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