After Whiplash took home both the U.S. Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, so too does Me & Earl & the Dying Girl find itself walking both with both trophies in hand. The acclaimed coming-of-age drama, however, is just one of the multiple films with top honors this morning.
USA Today reported all the wins from this year's film festival festivities. As Slashfilm notes, this year's awards circuit was different than most, as the jurors were asked to give an increased number of special jury prizes "recognizing excellence in the craft of filmmaking as they deemed appropriate."
Given Me & Earl & the Dying Girl's double win and how it compared to now-Oscar nominee Whiplash, some are calling the teen drama an early favorite for next year's Oscars. It is, of course, way too early to call something like that, but it does make interest in the film peak. It stars Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, R.J. Cyler, Nick Offerman and Connie Britton.
Taking the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in documentary is The Wolfpack, while Slow West, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, went home with the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic category. Meanwhile, the well-buzzed Dope got an excellence in editing trophy in the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury field, with The Diary of a Teenage Girl, starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, winning an excellence in cinematography prize in the same category. The Russian Woodpecker, meanwhile, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for best documentary.
As for the other audience award winners, in the dramatic World Cinema section, Umrika won. For best U.S. documentary, Meru was the pick. Then, in the best World Cinema directing field, Dark Horse was their choice.
The other directing awards were as follows: Robert Eggars got the U.S. dramatic award for his film The Witch, Kim Longinotto saw her work in Dreamcatcher be selected as the World Cinema for a documentary selection, Matthew Heineman's direction in Cartel Land got him the U.S. documentary trophy and Alanté Kavaité's film The Summer of Sangaile sneak off with the World Cinema for dramatic work prize.
More information about the other winners can be found in the link above. With last year's festival becoming some of the year's most acclaimed movies, like Boyhood and the aforementioned Whiplash just to name two, it looks like this year is going to bring some more cinematic joys.
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