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2006 Sundance winners announced!

Sundance 2006 has wrapped and here are a few delicious bits: For the first time in the Festival’s history, both the Grand Jury Prizes and Audience Awards for Documentary and Dramatic Competitions were presented to the same two films (meh) and our the very dear to SDoF's heart, Iraq in Fragments won an unprecedented three awards. Congratulations, James Longley!

Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award: Documentary: GOD GREW TIRED OF US directed by Christopher Quinn.
Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award: Dramatic: QUINCEAÑERA, written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer.

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary: IN THE PIT (Mexico), written and directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo.
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic: 13 TZAMETI (France), written and directed by Géla Babluani.
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary: DE NADIE (Mexico)
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic: NO. 2 (New Zealand), written and directed by Toa Fraser.

Documentary Directing Award: James Longley, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
Dramatic Directing Award: Dito Montiel, A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS

Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary: James Longley for IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic: Tom Richmond for RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR

New award this year:
Excellence in Editing Documentary: Billy McMillin, Fiona Otway and James Longley, IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Hilary Brougher STEPHANIE DALEY

Documentary Special Jury Prize: AMERICAN BLACKOUT, directed by Ian Inaba and TV JUNKIE, directed by Michael Cain and Matt Radecki.

Dramatic Special Jury Prizes for Best Ensemble Performance: A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS, directed by Dito Montiel and starring Robert Downey, Jr., Shia La Boeuf, Rosario Dawson, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest and Channing Tatum.
The Independent Vision: IN BETWEEN DAYS directed by So Yong Kim and written by So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray.

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prizes: INTO GREAT SILENCE, written and directed by Philip Groening and DEAR PYONGYANG, written and directed by Yonghi Yan.
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize: EVE & THE FIRE HORSE, written and directed by Julia Kwan.

Shorts Jury presented the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: BUGCRUSH, directed by
Carter Smith and to THE WRAITH OF COBBLE HILL, directed by Adam Parrish King.

Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking: THE NATURAL ROUTE (Spain), directed by Alex Pastor.

Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking: BEFORE DAWN (Hungary), directed by Bálint Kenyeres; PREACHER WITH AN UNKNOWN GOD, directed by Rob Van Alkemade; and UNDRESSING MY MOTHER (Ireland), directed by Ken Wardrop.

Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award: Patrice Toy, THE SPRING RITUAL from
Europe; Fernando Eimbcke, LAKE TAHOE from Latin America; Cruz Angeles, DON’T LET ME DROWN from the United States; and Kanji Nakajima, THE CLONE RETURNS TO THE HOMELAND from Japan.

Alfred P. Sloan Prize: THE HOUSE OF SAND, directed by Andrucha Waddington and written by Elena Soarez.

The 2006 Documentary Competition Jurors: Joe Bini, Zana Briski, Andrew Jarecki, Alexander Payne and Heather Rae.
The 2006 Dramatic Competition Jurors: Miguel Arteta, Terrence Howard, Alan Rudolph, Nancy Schreiber, and Audrey Wells.
The 2006 Sundance/NHK Jurors: Wim Wenders, Hector Babenco, Anthony Drazan, Marcos Bernstein, Fiona Mitchell, Joan Tewksberry, Toshio Endo, Yoshio Kakeo, and Shunichi Nagasaki.
The 2006 World Cinema Documentary Competition Jurors: Kate Amend, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Rachel Perkins.
The 2006 World Cinema Dramatic Competition Jurors: Irene Bignardi, Lu Chuan and Thomas Vinterberg.
The 2006 Shorts Jurors: Georgia Lee, Sydney Neter and John Vanco.
The 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Selection Committee: John Underkoffler, Greg Harrison, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dr. Martha Farah and Dr. Antonio Damasio.

See also: indiewire's A Look Back: Sundance Film Festival Jury and Audience Winners 1985 - present

posted by Erin @ Monday, January 30, 2006