Sundance Awards 2006


2006 Sundance Film Festival Awards

2006 Sundance Film Festival: Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2006

2006 Sundance Winners

 

Jesse Garcia, Emily Rios in Quinceanera
Jesse Garcia, Emily Rios in Quinceañera

 

Dramatic Grand Jury Prize (U.S.): Quinceañera directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer

Documentary Grand Jury Prize(U.S.): God Grew Tired of Us directed by Christopher Quinn

World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 13 Tzameti (France) directed by Géla Babluani

World Documentary Grand Jury Prize: In the Pit (Mexico) directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo

Director: Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (U.S.)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Hilary Brougher, Stephanie Daley

Documentary Director: James Longley, Iraq in Fragments (U.S.)

World Cinema Audience Award: No. 2 (New Zealand), directed by Toa Fraser

World Documentary Audience Award: De nadie (Mexico) directed by Tin Dirdamal

Audience Award (U.S. Dramatic Film): Quinceañera directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer

Audience Award (U.S. Documentary): God Grew Tired of Us directed by Christopher Quinn

Special Jury Prizes (Documentary): American Blackout, directed by Ian Inaba, and TV Junkie, directed by Michael Cain and Matt Radecki

Special Jury Prizes (World Cinema Documentary): Into Great Silence, written and directed by Philip Groening, and Dear Pyongyang, written and directed by Yonghi Yang

Special Jury Prizes (World Cinema, Dramatic): Eve & the Fire Horse (Canada), written and directed by Julia Kwan

Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic: Tom Richmond, Right at Your Door

Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary: James Longley, Iraq in Fragments

Best Editing – Documentary: Billy McMillin, Fiona Otway, and James Longley, Iraq in Fragments

Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble: Robert Downey Jr., Shia La Boeuf, Rosario Dawson, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, and Channing Tatum in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Special Jury Prizes for Independent Vision: In Between Days, directed by So Yong Kim, and written by So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking (U.S.) (tie): Bugcrush, directed by Carter Smith, and The Wrath of Cobble Hill, directed by Adam Parrish King

International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: The Natural Route (Spain), directed by Alex Pastor

Honorable Mentions (Short Films): Before Dawn (Hungary), directed by Balint Kenyeres; Preacher with an Unknown God, directed by Rob VanAlkemade; and Undressing My Mother (Ireland), directed by Ken Wardrop

Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award (assistance to new filmmakers): 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: Casa de Areia / The House of Sand, directed by Andrucha Waddington and written by Elena Soarez

 

Documentary Competition Jurors: Joe Bini, Zana Briski, Andrew Jarecki, Alexander Payne, and Heather Rae.

Dramatic Competition Jurors: Miguel Arteta, Terrence Howard, Alan Rudolph, Nancy Schreiber, and Audrey Wells.

World Cinema Documentary Competition Jurors: Kate Amend, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, and Rachel Perkins.

World Cinema Dramatic Competition Jurors: Irene Bignardi, Lu Chuan, and Thomas Vinterberg.

Shorts Jurors: Georgia Lee, Sydney Neter, and John Vanco.

Sundance/NHK Jurors: Wim Wenders, Hector Babenco, Anthony Drazan, Marcos Bernstein, Fiona Mitchell, Joan Tewksberry, Toshio Endo, Yoshio Kakeo, and Shunichi Nagasaki

Alfred P. Sloan Selection Committee: John Underkoffler, Greg Harrison, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dr. Martha Farah, and Dr. Antonio Damasio.

 

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