The winners of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival were announced in an awards ceremony
January 27, 2001 in Park City, Utah. Henry Bean's The
Believer, the dramatic tale of a religious boy-turned-Nazi skinhead
won the Grand Jury Prize, while Zhang Yimou's festival hit The
Road Home won the World Cinema audience award. The winning films will
screen Sunday, January 28 in Park City.





Dramatic Grand Jury Prize

The Believer by Henry Bean

Documentary
Grand Jury Prize

Southern Comfort by Kate Davis

Dramatic Audience
Award

Hedwig
and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell

Documentary
Audience Award (tie)

Dogtown and Z-Boys by Stacy Peralta

Scouts Honor by by Tom Shepard



World Cinema Audience Award

The
Road Home by Zhang Yimou



Documentary Directing Award

Stacy Peralta, Dogtown and Z-Boys



Dramatic Directing Award

John Cameron Mitchell, director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch



Excellence in Cinematography Award

Albert Maysles, cinematographer on Lalee's
Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

Giles Nuttgens, cinematographer on The Deep End from the Dramatic Competition.




Freedom of Expression Award

Scout's Honor, by Tom Shepard



Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Christopher Nolan, screenwriter of Memento
(based on the short story by Jonathan Nolan)



Special Jury Prize



Dramatic Jury: Tom Wilkinson & Sissy Spacek for In
The Bedroom

Documentary Jury: Children Underground directed and produced by Edet
Belzberg.



Jury Prize in Latin American Cinema (tie)

Possible Loves
by Sandra Werneck

Without a Trace by Maria Navaro



Special Jury Mention

Latin American
Jury: Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins, by André Barcinski
& Ivan Finotti

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: Gina, An Actress, Age 29, by Paul Harrill




Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking -- Shorts Jury

Delusions in
Modern Primitivism by Daniel Loflin

Jigsaw Venus by Dean Kapsalis

Metropopular by Jonah Hall

Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix by Amthony Dominici

Pie Fight '69 by Christian Bruno & Sam Green,

Sweet by Elyse Couvillion

Zen and the Art of Landscaping by David Kartch



Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award

Michael Burke,
The Mudge Boy (United States)

Daniel Burman, Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven (Latin America)

Fatima Jebli-Ouazzani, Halima's Paradise (Europe)

Hidenori Sugimori, Woman of Water (Japan)

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