Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, a tale about an impoverished teen (Jennifer Lawrence) searching for her meth-cooking father in the Ozarks, won both the grand jury prize for best drama film and the Waldo Salt screenwriting award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival .
Based on the Daniel Woodrell’s novel, Winter’s Bone was Granik’s second film at Sundance. In 2005, she received a director’s award for Down to the Bone, the gritty drama about a drug addicted single mother that helped launched the career of Vera Farmiga.
Restrepo took the prize for best documentary. The film, directed by Sebastian Junger (author of The Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington, tells of a year in the life of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
In the audience awards, first-time director and actor Josh Radnor’s happythankyoumoreplease won the award for best drama. The film tells of six young New Yorkers dealing with life, love and friendship. Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), received the audience award for best documentary for this critical look at the crumbling U.S. educational system, Waiting for Superman.
This year’s jury included Morgan Spurlock, Ondi Timoner, Russell Banks, Jason Kliot, Karyn Kusama, Parker Posey, and Robert Yeoman.
The complete list of Sundance Winners.
Winter’s Bone Wins Top Prizes at Sundance originally appeared on About.com World / Independent Film on Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at 11:14:48.
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