The notorious Oscar-predicting barometer Sundance wrapped up over the weekend, after having premiered a slew of sick films, debuting Jason Segel‘s first srs role, and seeing Lena Dunham call out Woody Allen. Festival and awards season, how I literally die for thee.
At Sundance’s award ceremony held in Utah over the weekend, the festival’s darling “Me And Earl And The Dying Girl”, based on Jesse Andrew‘s 2013 novel of the same name, is essentially a richer man’s/hipper man’s “The Fault In Our Stars” (“a pair of high school film-lovers who befriend a girl with cancer”) and is directed by Alfonso-Gomez Rejon (director of ‘American Horror Story‘ and ‘Glee’ episodes, oddly enough). The film stole Sundance’s heart so convincingly it took out both the Grand Jury Prize and The Audience Award – the same double whammy that Oscar-nominated ‘Whiplash‘ secured last year.
‘The Wolfpack‘, a fascinating documentary following the lives of seven siblings who were homeschooled in the confines of their NYC apartment by their overbearing father, took out Sundance’s top documentary award.
Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton and Molly Shannon star in ‘Me And Earl And The Dying Girl”, and you will see it because of course you will. Hanging out for a trailer for Earl? Too bad, nerds, the internet is letting us down today, and none exists. Happy Monday!
Instead, here’s a dumb cast portrait taken at the festival. Still recovering poorly from Nick Offerman’s newly transformed face.
SUNDANCE 2015 AWARD WINNERS
U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary: The Wolfpack
U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: Robert Eggers for The Witch
Directing Award for U.S. Documentary: Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land
U.S. Dramatic Screenwriting Award: The Stanford Prison Experiment
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Diary of a Teenage Girl
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Editing: Lee Haugen for Dope
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision: Advantageous
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Social Impact: 3 1/2 Minutes
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Verite Filmmaking: Western
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Breakout First Feature: (T)error
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Cartel Land
U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
U.S. Documentary Audience Award: Meru
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Slow West
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Umrika
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: Dark Horse
Next Audience Award: James White
World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: Alante Kavaite for The Summer of Sangaile
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Germain McKicking for Partisan
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Jack Reynor for Glassland
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Regina Case and Camila Mardila for The Second Mother
World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: The Russian Woodpecker
World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Kim Longinotto for Dreamcatcher
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: How to Change the World
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact: Pervert Park
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access: The Chinese Mayor
Via THR.
In-text image by Larry Busacca via Getty.
