Awards

The 1997 Sundance Festival Award Winners


Grand Jury Prize
Dramatic
Sunday
Directed by Jonathan Nositer

Documentary
Girls Like Us
Directed by Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonia

Filmmakers Trophy
Dramatic
In the Company of Men
Directed by Neil LaBute

Documentary
Licensed to Kill
Directed by Arthur Dong

Directing Award
Dramatic
Hurricane
Directed by Morgan J. Freeman

Documentary
Licensed to Kill
Directed by Arthur Dong

Audience Award
Dramatic
Hurricane / love jones (tie)
Directed by Morgan J. Freeman (Hurricane) / Theodore Witcher
(love jones)

Documentary
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
Directed by Monte Bramer

Cinematography Award
Dramatic
Hurricane
Cinematographer: Enrique Chediak

Documentary
My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha
Cinematographer: Christine Choy

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Sunday
Screenwriters: James Lasdun and Jonathan Nossiter

Freedom of Expression Award
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary / Family Name (tie)
Directed by Laura Angelica Simon / Macky Alston

Latin American Cinema Award
Landscapes of Memory
Directed by Jose Araujo

Honorable Mention:
Deep Crimson
Directed by Arturo Ripstein

Short Filmmaking Award
Man about Town
Directed by Kris Isacsson

Honorable Mentions:
Syphon Gun
Directed by KC Amos

Birdhouse
Directed by Richard C. Zimmerman

Special Artistic Merit
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan
Directed by Kirby Dick

Parker Posie
Acting in The House of Yes

Therese DePrez
Production Design for Going All the Way

The Juries
Dramatic:
Patrick Duncan
Giancarlo Esposito
Catherine Keener
Ellen Kuras
John Powers

Documentary:
Joe Berlinger
Jerret Engle
Deborah Hoffmann
Michael Lumpkin
Lourdes Portillo

Information courtesy of the Sundance Institute

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