Sundance 2014 Award Winners

Comedy power couple Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman hosted the Sundance awards ceremony Saturday night in Park City. For those in the audience, and watching at home via streaming, it was a crash course in how to keep these types of things short and sweet, while giving the winners their due.

And what an eclectic bunch of winners it was. If the 2014 edition of Sundance will go down for anything it will probably be the fact that there were nary a standout, big buzz film in any category, but a lot of niche gems, or important indie director's new works only making mild waves. But one thing was for sure, both audiences and the jury loved Whiplash. Damien Chazelle's story about a jazz drummer and his abusive instructor at a high end music conservatory took home both the U.S. Dramatic Competition Audience Award and Grand Jury Award. Meanwhile, Rich Hill took home the U.S. Documentary Award.

In World Competition categories the meditative yet chilling To Kill A Man, from Chilean director Alejandro Fernández Almendras, nabbed the Dramatic Competition Jury Award, while Return To Homs, a look at the conflict in Syria, took Doc.

Other notable winners include Fishing Without Nets' Cutter Hoderine for best director in U.S. Dramatic Competition, with a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent going to Dear White People director Justin Simien.

Find all the winners below, and be sure to catch even more reviews and news from the fest over the next few days here at ScreenAnarchy.

U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic		Whiplash
U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary		Rich Hill
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic		To Kill a Man
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary		Return to Homs
Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura		Whiplash
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura		Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic		Difret
Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary		The Green Prince
Audience Award: Best of NEXT		Imperial Dreams
Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic		Fishing Without Nets / Cutter Hodierne
Directing Award: U. S. Documentary		The Case Against 8 / Ben Cotner & Ryan White
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic		52 Tuesdays / Sophie Hyde
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary		20,000 Days on Earth / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic		Low Down / Christopher Blauvelt
Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary		E-TEAM / Ross Kauffman & Rachel Beth Anderson
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic		Lilting / Ula Pontikos
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary		Happiness / Thomas Balmès & Nina Bernfeld
U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent		Dear White People / Justin Simien
U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score		Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter / The Octopus Project
U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking		The Overnighters
U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Use of Animation		Watchers of the Sky
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance		God Help the Girl
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Bravery		We Come as Friends
Editing Award: U. S. Documentary		Watchers of the Sky
Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary		20,000 Days on Earth
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic		The Skeleton Twins / Craig Johnson & Mark Heyman
Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic		Blind / Eskil Vogt
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize		I Origins
Short Film Grand Jury Prize		Of God and Dogs
Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction		Gregory Go Boom
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction		The Cut
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction		I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
Short Film Jury Award: Animation		Yearbook
Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision		Rat Pack Rat
Short Film Special Jury Award for Non-Fiction		Love. Love. Love.
Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting		Burger
Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube		Chapel Perilous