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The votes have been tallied and the awards handed out, which means we have now a full list of this year’s Sundance winners.  Leading this year’s awards were Courtney Hunt’s “Frozen River”, a drama about women helping illegal aliens enter the U.S., and Jonathan Levine’s “The Wackness”, a comedy about a teenage dope dealer in mid-’90’s New York.  “Frozen River” took hope the grand jury prize, while “The Wackness” snagged the audience prize.

In the documentary category, “Trouble the Water” from Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, which gave a look at post-Katrina New Orleans, took the grand jury award.  Josh Tickell’s “Fields of Fuel”, which gives a look at one man’s effort to alter America’s energy policy, went home with the audience prize award.

Directing awards went to Lance Hammer for “Ballast” and Nanette Burstein for “American Teen.”

Without further ado, here’s the full list of 2008’s Sundance award winners:

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Trouble the Water
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Frozen River
Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic – Man on Wire
Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary – King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
Audience Award: Documentary – Fields of Fuel
Audience Award: Dramatic – The Wackness
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Man on Wire
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Captain Abu Raed
Directing Award: Documentary – American Teen
Directing Award: Dramatic – Ballast
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Mermaid (Rusalka)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sleep Dealer
World Cinema Screenwriting Award – I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J’ai Toujours Rêvé d’�tre un Gangster)
Documentary Editing Award – Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Ballast
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Recycle
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)
Special Jury Prize: Documentary – The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence – Anywhere, USA
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast – Choke
Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – My Olympic Summer
Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Sikumi (On the Ice)
International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Soft
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Aquarium
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – August 15th
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – La Corona (The Crown)
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Oiran Lyrics
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spider
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Suspension
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – W.
2008 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Sleep Dealer

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