Sony Pictures Classics purchased Frozen River for under $1 million. Quentin Tarantino, a juror this year at the fest, described "a wonderful depiction of poverty in America."
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Trouble the Water won the documentary grand jury prize. The film about the survival of a New Orleans couple through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath uses footage shot by one of its subjects, Kimberly Rivers Roberts.
The dramatic audience award went to Jonathan Levine's debut comedy The Wackness, which featured the much talked make-out session between Ben (Ghandi) Kingsley and Mary-Kate Olsen. The documentary audience award went to Josh Tickell's Fields of Fuel.
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Complete list of Sundance 2008 Award Winners:
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Trouble The Water; directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Frozen River; directed by Courtney Hunt
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary
Man on Wire; directed by James Marsh
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic
King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen); directed by Jens Jonsson
Audience Award: Documentary
Fields of Fuel; directed by Josh Tickell
Audience Award: Dramatic
The Wackness; directed by Jonathan Levine
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary
Man on Wire; directed by James Marsh
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic
Captain Abu Raed; directed by Amin Matalqa
Directing Award: Documentary
Nanette Burstein for American Teen
Directing Award: Dramatic
Lance Hammer for Ballast
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary
Nino Kirtadze for Durakovo: Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic
Anna Melikyan for Mermaid (Rusalka)
World Cinema Screenwriting Award
Samuel Benchetrit for I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster (J'ai Toujours Reve D'Etre Un Gangster)
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award
Irena Dol for The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary
Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring for Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic
Lol Crawley for Ballast
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary
al Massad for Recycle
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic
Askild Vik Edvardsen for King of Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
Documentary Editing Award
Joe Bini for Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Alex Rivera and David Riker for Sleep Dealer
Special Jury Prizes
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic
Blue Eyelids (Parpados Azules), directed by Ernesto Contreas
Special Jury Prize: Documentary
Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, directed by Lisa F. Jackson
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence
Anywhere, U.S.A., directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast
Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad Henke for Choke
Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking
My Olympic Summer, directed by Daniel Robin
Sikumi (On the Ice), directed by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking
Soft, directed by Simon Ellis
Shorts Jury Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking
Aquarium, directed by Rob Meyer
August 15th, directed by Xuan Jiang
La Corona, (The Crown), directed by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
Oiran Lyrics, directed by Ryosuke Ogawa
Spider, directed by Nash Edgerton
Suspension, directed by Nicolas Provost
W., directed by The Vikings
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
The Sleep Dealer; directed by Alex Rivera
Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award
Alejandro Fernandez Almendras for Huacho
Braden King for Here
Aiko Nagatsu for Apoptsis
Radu Jude for The Happiest Girl In The World
