2005 Sundance Winners
Darren Burrows in Forty Shades of Blue. Photo courtesy of FSOB LLC.
Forty Shades of Blue, a love triangle involving a country singer (Rip Torn), the Russian immigrant with whom he lives (Dina Korzun), and the singer’s estranged son (Darren Burrows) won the best American fiction film award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Ira Sachs directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Rohatyn.
The best American documentary award went to Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight, which explores decades of American war-making through a social, political, economic, and ideological prism. (The director’s brother, Andrew Jarecki, won the same award in 2003 for Capturing the Friedmans.)
The World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize went to Zezé Gamboa’s O Herói / The Hero, the story [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2005
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Sundance Awards 2005
2005 Sundance Film Festival Awards
2005 Sundance Film Festival: Park City, Utah, January 20-30, 2005
2005 Sundance winners
Forty Shades of Blue by Ira Sachs
Dramatic Grand Jury Prize (U.S.): Forty Shades of Blue directed by Ira Sachs
Documentary Grand Jury Prize(U.S.): Why We Fight directed by Eugene Jarecki
World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: O Herói / The Hero (Angola / Portugal) directed by Zezé Gamboa
World Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Stand van de maan / Shape of the Moon (The Netherlands) directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich
Director: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale (U.S.)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale (U.S.)
Documentary Director: Jeff Feuerzeig, The Devil and Daniel Johnston (U.S.)
World Cinema Audience Award: Brødre / Brothers (Denmark) directed by Susanne [...]
