As the event has unfolded I have been collecting the news via the Hollywood Reporter and decided to put it together in one (long) post rather than do the as it happens thing. The stories are presented in descending order with the most recent stories first. There are some cool interviews mixed in with the deals and buying frenzy...
The top jury awards went to Beasts of the Southern Wild (drama) and The House I Live In (documentary). Beasts, a breakout feature from director Benh Zeitlin about a six-year-old girl living with her impoverished father near the Mississippi delta, has been picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight. House, from director Eugene Jarecki, explores the injustices of America's 40-year war on drugs.
Audience awards went to The Surrogate, the drama starring John Hawkes as a man in an iron lung who attempts to lose his virginity, and Searching for Sugar Man, the documentary about a quest to figure out what happened to an elusive rock star. Both movies found domestic distributors at the festival, with Fox Searchlight paying $6 million for Surrogate and Sony Pictures Classics grabbing Sugar Man for a mid-six figures price tag.
The full list of winners:
World Cinema Jury Special Prize, Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
World Cinema Documentary Editing: Indie Game: The Movie, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize:, Can, Rasit Celikezer
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Drama: David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Lars Skree, Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras
Best of Next Audience Award: Sleepwalk With Me, Mike Birbiglia
Audience Award, Shorts: The Debutante Hunters, Maria White
Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul
Audience Award, World Cinema: Valley of Saints, Musa Syeed
Audience Award, U.S. Documentary: The Invisible War, Kirby Dick
Audience Award, U.S. Drama: The Surrogate, Ben Lewin
World Cinema Jury Prize, Drama: Violeta Went to Heaven
World Cinema Directing Award, Drama: Teddy Bear, Mads Matthiesen
World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Drama: Young & Wild, Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutierrez, Pedro Periano, Sebastian Sepulveda
World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts
Special Jury Prizes, U.S. Documentary: Love Free or Die and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing: Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling, Smashed and Nobody Walks
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting: The Surrogate
Excellence in Cinematography, U.S. Documentary: Chasing Ice, Jeff Orlowski
Excellence in Cinematography, U.S. Dramatic: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Richardson
U.S. Documentary Editing Award: Detropia, Enat Sidi
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Safety Not Guaranteed, Derek Connolly
U.S. Directing Award: The Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield
U.S. Directing Award: Middle of Nowhere, Ava DuVernay
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: The House I Live In, Eugene Jarecki
Grand Jury Prize, Drama: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
The festival previously announced that 'Robot & Frank' and 'Valley of Saints' Awarded Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
VIDEO: THR's Sundance Film Festival Lounge
Buys/News
Star-Studded 'Lay the Favorite' Sells to Weinstein Co. for $2 Million-Plus
Controversial Drama 'Compliance' Sells to Magnolia Pictures
Madmen Entertainment Takes Rights to 'Marina Abramovic' Doc Down Under
Magnolia Pictures Wrapping Up Deal for 'Nobody Walks' (Exclusive)
ATO Pictures Acquires North American Rights to Clive Owen-Gillian Anderson's 'Shadow Dancer'
Participant Media, AFFRM Partner for 'Middle of Nowhere'
IFC Films Acquires North American Rights to 'Simon Killer'
Musician-Turned-Filmmaker Quentin Dupieux on Hitting all of the Right Notes with 'Wrong' (Q&A)
Sundance Selects Grabs 'How to Survive a Plague' (Exclusive)
National Geographic Channel Nabs Doc 'Chasing Ice'
Entertainment One Acquires 'Wish You Were Here'
IFC Midnight Acquires 'The Pact'
Magnolia Pictures Acquiring Horror Flick 'V/H/S' for North of $1 Million (Exclusive)
IFC Films Acquires Josh Radnor's 'Liberal Arts'
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, Samuel Goldwyn Films Pick Up 'Robot and Frank'
Richard Gere's 'Arbitrage' Sells to Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions for $2 Million-Plus
Robert De Niro Thriller 'Red Lights' Sells to Millennium Entertainment
Institute-Backed Films Score 7 Oscar Nominations
'Celeste and Jesse Forever' Sells to Sony Pictures Classics
Focus Features Buys 'For a Good Time, Call ...'
MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a 'Watershed Event'
Fox Searchlight Buying 'The Surrogate' for About $6 Million
Doug E. Fresh Rhymes in 'Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap' (Exclusive Video)
Lizzy Caplan Talks 'Party Down' Movie, Going Bridal at Sundance in Two Wedding Comedies (Q&A)
Mike Birbiglia on Turning His 'Sleepwalk' Stage Show Into a Film (Q&A)
5 Bidders Vying for Festival Breakout 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
Joel Edgerton on Avoiding Hollywood's 'Crap Movies' and His Hunt for Bin Laden With Kathryn Bigelow (Q&A)
Protagonist Sells U.K. and Aussie Rights to 'Sugar Man'
Julie Delpy on '2 Days in New York' and Funny Intellectuals (Q&A)
Stephen Frears on His Sundance Comeback, 'Lay the Favorite' (Q&A)
Thriller 'Black Rock' Acquired by LD Distribution for North of $1 Mil
Bradley Cooper's 'The Words' Sells to CBS Films After Heated Bidding
Seth Rogen's Better Half Premieres in Park City With 'For a Good Time Call' (Q&A)
'I Am Not A Hipster' Has Musician's Touch
Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures Partnering With ro*co prods. to Adapt Docs Into Dramas
Screaming, Anger at Tension-Filled 'Compliance' Premiere
New Online Hub Slated Launches (Exclusive)
Ice-T Talks Filmmaking and His Festival Debut (Q&A)
Tears and Anger as Peter Jackson's 'West of Memphis' Premieres
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim Skewer 'Douchey' Hollywood in Their 'Billion Dollar Movie' (Q&A)
Magnolia Buys 'Queen Of Versailles' Documentary
Antonio Campos Returns to Park City After a 'Huge' Year with "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Rashida Jones on Her Screenwriting Debut, 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' (Q&A)
Content Film and Preferred Content Cut Six-Film Production Deal
Spike Lee Talks 'Red Hook Summer,' His Feature Debut at the Festival (Q&A)
Melanie Lynskey on the Rise of Female Protagonists and Which Screenings She Hopes to Catch (Q&A)
Behind the Scenes of 'Compliance' (Exclusive Video)
Doc 'ME @ THE ZOO' Acquired by HBO Documentary Films
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