Sundance 2010 Film Festival Award Winners

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The Sundance Film Festival award winners have been announced now that the 2010 film festival has come to a close. Emcee David Hyde Pierce announced the winners at the Racquet Club in Park City, Utah on Saturday night. In terms of what films will do well during the rest of the year, the Audience Awards given out at the end of the Sundance film festival are often a strong indication of which films will see more widespread success in the coming months. "Waiting For Superman," "happythankyoumoreplease," "Contracorriente," and "Wasteland" are the four Audience Award winners that could likely get more buzz in the next few months. 

While these independent film award winners may or may not make it to the big screen, films with a recognizable actor or actress who can be directly attributed to the film almost always do well. Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel's "(500) Days of Summer" from Sundance 2009 is one such example of this kind of success. This year, Levitt returns with "Hesher" which premiereed at Sundance 2010. RottenTomatoes suggests that films such as Levitt's "Hesher," "Buried" starring Ryan Reynolds, "The Killer Inside Me" with Casey Affleck, and "Splice" with Adrian Brody will all see success post-Sundance. They also make note of one of Kristen Stewart's two submissions - 'Welcome To The Rileys." While her other film "The Runaways" with Dakota Fanning was rumoured for the best buzz, it seems that "Welcome To The Rileys" (also starring James Gandolfini) will be her next indie hit for 2010.

Here is a complete list of award winners from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival:

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic -- "Winter's Bone," directed by Debra Granik

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -- "Restrepo," directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic -- "Animal Kingdom," directed by David Michod

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary -- "The Red Chapel," directed by Mads Brugger

Audience Award: Documentary -- "Waiting for Superman," directed by Davis Guggenheim

Audience Award: Dramatic -- "happythankyoumoreplease," directed by Josh Radnor

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary -- "Wasteland," directed by Lucy Walker

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic -- "Contracorriente" (Undertow), directed by Javier Fuentes-Leon

Best of Next -- "Homewrecker," directed by Todd Barnes and Brad Barnes

The Directing Award: Documentary -- "Smash His Camera," directed by Leon Gast

The Directing Award: Dramatic -- "3 Backyards," directed and written by Eric Mendelsohn

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary -- "Space Tourists," directed by Christian Frei

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic -- "Southern District," directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award -- "Winter's Bone," written by Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini

World Cinema Screenwriting Award - "Southern District," written by Juan Carlos Valdivia

Documentary Editing Award -- "Joan Rivers; A Piece Of Work," edited by Penelope Falk

World Cinema Documentary Editing Award -- "A Film Unfinished," edited by Joelle Alexis

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary -- "The Oath," shot by Kirsten Johnson and Laura Poitras

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic -- "Obselidia," shot by Zak Mulligan

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary -- "His & Hers," shot by Kate McCullough and Michael Lavelle

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic -- "The Man Next Door," directed by Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat

World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic for Breakout Performance -- Tatiana Maslany, "Grown Up Movie Star"

World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary -- "Enemies of the People," directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath

Special Jury Prize: Documentary -- "Gasland," directed by Josh Fox

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic -- "Sympathy for Delicious," directed by Mark Ruffalo

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking -- "Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln," directed by Jeremy Konner

Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking -- "The Six Dollar Fifty Man," directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland

Alfred P. Sloan Prize -- "Obselidia," directed by Diane Bell