2015 Sundance Film Festival Winners

U.S. DRAMATIC

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl stars Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon and Thomas Mann and was picked up by Fox Searchlight for a record-breaking $12 million.

GRAND JURY PRIZE: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl- directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
AUDIENCE AWARD: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl- directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
DIRECTING AWARD: Robert Eggers, The Witch
WALDO SALT SCREENWRITING AWARD: Tim Talbott, The Stanford Prison Experiment
SPECIAL JURY AWARD- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Diary of a Teenage Girl- Brandon Trost
SPECIAL JURY AWARD- EDITING: Dope- Lee Haugen
SPECIAL JURY AWARD- COLLABORATIVE VISION: Advantageous- Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang
AUDIENCE AWARD (NEXT): James White- directed by Josh Mond
ALFRED P. SLOAN PRIZE: The Stanford Prison Experiment- directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez

U.S. DOCUMENTARY

The Wolfpack, winner of the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize tells the story of Angulo brothers, who while locked away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan reenact their favorite movies.

GRAND JURY PRIZE: The Wolfpack- directed by Crystal Moselle
AUDIENCE AWARD: Meru- directed by Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi
DIRECTING AWARD: Matthew Heineman, Cartel Land
SPECIAL JURY AWARD - SOCIAL IMPACT: 3 1/2 Minutes- directed by Marc Silver
SPECIAL JURY AWARD- VERITE FILMMAKING: Western- Bill Ross, Turner Ross
SPECIAL JURY AWARD- BREAKOUT FIRST FEATURE: (T)error- Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe
SPECIAL JURY AWARD- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cartel Land- Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC

Slow West is a western starring Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn.  A24 Films picked up the film prior to Sundance in a partnership with DirecTV.

GRAND JURY PRIZE: Slow West- directed by John Maclean
AUDIENCE AWARD: Umrika- directed by Prashant Nair
DIRECTING AWARD: Alanté Kavaité, The Summer of Sangaile
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Partisan- Germain McMicking
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE- ACTING: Glassland- Jack Reynor
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE- ACTING: The Second Mother- Regina Casé, Camila Márdila 

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

World Cinema Documentary winner The Russian Woodpecker explores a dark secret uncovered by a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

GRAND JURY PRIZE: The Russian Woodpecker- directed by Chad Garcia
AUDIENCE AWARD: Dark Horse- directed by Louise Osmond
DIRECTING AWARD: Kim Longinotto, Dreamcatcher
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE- EDITING: How to Change the World- Jim Scott
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE- IMPACT: Pervert Park- Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE- UNPARALLELED ACCESS: The Chinese Mayer- Hao Zhoe