The winners to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival were recently announced and we have the complete results.
The big winner of the festival was writer-director Damien Chazelle’s, Whiplash. Whiplash opened the festival to rave reviews and maintained that momentum throughout the rest of the week. The film stars Miles Teller as a talented young jazz drummer who is pushed past his potential by a drill sergeant-like instructor (J.K. Simmons). Whiplash won tons of praise for the performance of Teller, who further cements his emerging talent after last year’s, The Spectacular Now. For the second year in a row, the grand jury and audience awards have matched. Whiplash was acquired by Sony Classics shortly after its premier and they plan to release it later this year.
On the documentary side of the competition, the grand jury prize went to Rich Hill. It’s a close-up portrait of three underprivileged boys living in the Missouri town. Rich Hill was directed by cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo. The audience award for best documentary went to Michael Rossato-Bennett’s Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory, about the treatment of Alzheimer’s patients through music.
Complete list of winners:
Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): “Whiplash”
Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): “Rich Hill”
Audience Award (Dramatic): “Whiplash”
Audience Award (Documentary): “Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory”
Directing (Dramatic): Cutter Hodierne, “Fishing Without Nets”
Directing (Documentary): Ben Cotner and Ryan White, “The Case Against 8″
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (Dramatic): Craig Johnson, “The Skeleton Twins”
Cinematography (Dramatic): Christopher Blauvelt, “Low Down”
Cinematography (Documentary): Rachel Beth Anderson and Ross Kauffman, “E-Team”
Editing (Documentary): Jenny Golden and Karen Sim, “Watchers of the Sky”
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent (Dramatic): Justin Simien, “Dear White People”
Special Jury Award for Musical Score (Dramatic): The Octopus Project, “Kumiko the Treasure Hunter”
Special Jury Award (Documentary): “The Overnighters”
Special Jury Award for Use of Animation (Documentary): “Watchers of the Sky”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): “To Kill a Man”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): “Return to Homs”
World Cinema Audience Award (Dramatic): “Difret”
World Cinema Audience Award (Documentary): “The Green Prince”
Best of Next Audience Award: “Imperial Dreams”
World Cinema Directing Award (Dramatic): Sophie Hyde, “52 Tuesdays”
World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary): Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, “20,000 Days on Earth”
World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Eskil Vogt, “Blind”
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Dramatic): Ula Pontikos, “Lilting”
World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): “God Help the Girl”
World Cinema Editing Award (Documentary): Jonathan Amos, “20,000 Days on Earth”
World Cinema Cinematography Award (Documentary): Thomas Balmes and Nina Bernfeld, “Happiness”
World Cinema Special Jury Award (Documentary): “We Come as Friends”
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Mike Cahill, “I Origins”
Source: Variety
