Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Time for some Oscar 2012 predictions. Earlier this evening, the Sundance Film Festival announced the winners of its 2011 edition. [Full list of Sundance 2011 winners.]
Drake Doremus' romantic drama Like Crazy, about a young American and his young British lover who are forced to live apart after she overstays her visa in the US, won the jury award in the US dramatic category. As the Englishwoman, Felicity Jones won the festival's special award for acting.
Peter Richardson's How to Die in Oregon, described as a "sober" look at euthanasia — a woman takes an overdose of drugs and dies on camera — was the jury's best US documentary.
The best World dramatic entry was Anne Sewitsky's Norwegian comedy Happy, Happy, about a married woman whose sexual appetites are reawakened by a new neighbor.
The winner in the World documentary category was Danfung Dennis' Anglo-American Hell and Back Again, about a marine who returns home after being seriously injured in Afghanistan.
At indieWIRE, Dana Harris compiled a list of 2011 Oscar nominees in various categories that had their US (or World) premiere at Sundance 2010. Sundance's nine Oscar movies are: Winter's Bone, The Kids Are All Right, Restrepo, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Animal Kingdom, Blue Valentine, GasLand, Waste Land, and Madagascar, carnet de voyage / Madagascar, a Journey Diary.
Photo: Paramount Pictures.