Sundance Winners: In Praise of Beasts of the Southern Wild, The House I Live In and More

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All hail Beasts of the Southern Wild (drama) and The House I Live In (documentary).

The Sundance Film Festival dealt out its awards Saturday evening in Park City, handing the Benh Zeitlin directed drama and Eugene Jarecki directed documentary the top jury awards. 

Get the details on these champs and all the rest of the winners below...

Beasts of the Southern Wild, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic film and has been picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight, tells a father-daughter bond tale of a six-year-old girl living with her dad in the flooded basins near the Mississippi delta. The House I Live In, which nabbed best documentary, focuses on the impact of America's long war on drugs.

Katie Aselton, who directed and starred in Black Rock, and Sundance Film Festival's director, John Cooper, who replaced a sick Parker Posey, announced the awards, also rewarding another top flick, The Surrogate, with an Audience Award and a prize for Best Ensemble. The Surrogate tells the story of a man in an iron lung (John Hawkes) who attempts to lose his virginity with the help of a sex surrogate played by Helen Hunt.

Check out the full list of winners:

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: The House I Live InGrand Jury Prize, Drama: Beasts of the Southern WildU.S. Directing Award: The Queen of Versailles, Lauren GreenfieldU.S. Directing Award: Middle of Nowhere, Ava DuvernayWaldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Safety Not Guaranteed, Colin TrevorrowAudience Award, U.S. Documentary: The Invisible WarAudience Award, U.S. Dramatic: The SurrogateSpecial Jury Prizes, U.S. Documentary: Love Free or Die and Ai Weiwei: Never SorryU.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Producing: Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling, Smashed and Nobody WalksU.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting: The SurrogateShorts Audience Award: The Debutante HuntersExcellence in Cinematography, U.S. Documentary: Chasing IceExcellence in Cinematography, U.S. Dramatic: Beasts of the Southern WildU.S. Documentary Editing Award: DetropiaBest of Next Award: Sleepwalk With MeAlfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Robot and Frank and Valley of SaintsWorld Cinema Jury Special Prize, Documentary: Searching for Sugar ManWorld Cinema Documentary Editing: Indie Game: The Movie, Lisanne Pajot and James SwirskyWorld Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Law in These Parts, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, directorWorld Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize: Can, Rasit Celikezer, directorWorld Cinema Cinematography Award, Drama: David Raedeker, My Brother the DevilWorld Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary: Lars Skree, Putin's KissWorld Cinema Directing Award, Documentary: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, 5 Broken CamerasShorts Audience Award: The Debutante Hunters, Maria White, directorWorld Cinema Audience Award: Searching for Sugar Man

Source : eonline.com