Sundance Awards 'Circumstance,' 'Another Happy Day'

The Sundance Film Festival announced its complete awards Saturday night, and winners included How to Die in Oregon (Grand Jury Prize, Documentary), which looks at life and death in the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, Like Crazy (Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic), about a long-distance relationship, Circumstance (Audience Award, Dramatic), which offers up sexual rebellion in Iran, Another Happy Day (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), which presents an emotional family drama. The complete list of awarded films follows.

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: How to Die in Oregon (Peter D. Richardson)

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Like Crazy (Drake Doremus)

World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: Hell and Back Again (Danfung Dennis)
 
World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic: Happy, Happy (Anne Sewitsky)
 
Audience Award, Documentary: Buck (Cindy Meehl)
 
Audience Award, Dramatic: Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz)

World Cinema Audience Award, Documentary: Senna (Asif Kapadia)

World Cinema Audience Award, Dramatic: Kinyarwanda (Alrick Brown)
 
Best of NEXT! Audience Award: to to.get.her (Erica Dunton)

Directing Award, Documentary: Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Directing Award, Dramatic: Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene

World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: James Marsh for Project Nim

World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic: Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Sam Levinson for Another Happy Day

World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Yossi Madmony for Restoration

Documentary Editing Award: Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Currey If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Göran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist for The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary: Cinematographers Eric Strauss, Ryan Hill and Peter Hutchens for The Redemption of General Butt Naked

Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic: Cinematographer Bradford Young for Pariah

World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Cinematographer Danfung Dennis for Hell and Back Again

World Cinema Cinematography Award, Dramatic: Cinematographer Diego F. Jimenez for All Your Dead Ones

Two World Cinema Special Jury Prizes, Dramatic for Breakout Performances: Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan for their roles in Tyrannosaur

World Cinema Special Jury Prize, Documentary: Position Among the Stars (Leonard Retel Helmrich)
 
Special Jury Prize, Documentary: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (Constance Marks)

Special Jury Prize, Dramatic: Another Earth (Mike Cahill)

Special Jury Prize, Dramatic: Felicity Jones for her role in Like Crazy

As announced on Tuesday, the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking was awarded to Brick Novax pt 1 and 2 (director and screenwriter Matt Piedmont). The International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking was given to Deeper Than Yesterday (director and screenwriter: Ariel Kleiman). In addition, the jury awarded Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking to: Choke (director and screenwriter Michelle Latimer); Diarchy (director and screenwriter: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino); The External World (director and screenwriter David O'Reilly); The Legend of Beaver Dam (director Jerome Sable, screenwriters Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion); Out of Reach (director and screenwriter Jakub Stozek); and Protoparticles (director and screenwriter Chema García Ibarra).

On Tuesday Sundance Institute and Mahindra announced the winners of the inaugural Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are: Bogdan Mustata, Wolf from Romania; Ernesto Contreras, I Dream in Another Language from Mexico; Seng Tat Liew, In What City Does It Live? from Malaysia; and Talya Lavie, Zero Motivation from Israel.

Sundance Institute and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on Thursday announced Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer, as the winner of the Sundance Institute/NHK Award honoring and supporting emerging filmmakers.

Another Earth, written and directed by Mike Cahill, is the recipient of this year's Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. The Prize, which carries a $20,000 cash award by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.