The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is in the history books but not before awards were handed out highlighting the best and brightest of the film festival, at least among film jurors. The crowning honor – Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic – went Macon Blair’s thriller I Don’t Feel at Home Anymore in This World. Blair, a performer who recently appeared in the cult hits Green Room and Blue Ruin (and soon will be seen in Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming Logan Lucky), both wrote and directed the feature.
The film centers around a woman, recently burglarized, who attempts to track down her thieves. While embracing this newfound vigilantism, she starts to recognize she is out of her depths against a pack of criminals. Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness) stars in the film alongside Elijah Wood (Grand Piano) and Jane Levy (Don’t Breathe). Netflix acquired the film. The Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic went to Crown Heights, a new drama from Matt Ruskin that centers around a man wrongly convicted of murder starring Lakeith Stanfield (Short Term 12). Last year, it the Nat Parker’s Sundance sensation The Birth of a Nation that won both prizes. One of the other top winners was Eliza Hittman for directing the critically admired Beach Rats. The film centers around an aimless and sexually conflicted teenager attempting to escape a bleak life in the out edges of Brooklyn. The film stars rising young actor Harris Dickinson.
Take a look at the full list of winners from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival below:
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Prize: I Don’t Feel at Home Anymore in This World
- Audience Award: Crown Heights
- Directing: Eliza Hittman, Beach Rats
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith, Ingrid Goes West
- Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance: Chanté Adams, Roxanne Roxanne
- Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director: Maggie Betts, Novitiate
- Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Daniel Landin, Yellow Birds
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Prize: Dina
- Directing: Peter Nicks, The Force
- Orwell Award: Icarus
- Audience Award: Chasing Coral
- Special Jury Award for Editing: Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista, Unrest
- Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Yance Ford, Strong Island
- Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking: Amanda Lipitz, Step
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Prize: The Nile Hilton Incident
- Audience Award: I Dream in Another Language
- Directing Award: Francis Lee, God’s Own Country
- Screenwriting: Kirsten Tan, Pop Aye
- Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions: Jun Geng, Free and Easy
- Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Manu Dacosse, Axolotl Overkill
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Prize: Last Men in Aleppo
- Audience Award: Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
- Directing Award: Pascale Lamche, Winnie
- Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
- Special Jury Award for Editing: Ramona S. Diaz, Motherland
- Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva, Machin
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