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'Fruitvale', 'Blood Brother' top winners at Sundance

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'Fruitvale', about the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant on San Francisco's BART by security guards in 2009 won both the Grand Jury Prize for US Dramatic and the US Dramatic Audience Award.

The documentary 'Blood Brother' took home the Grand Jury Prize for US Documentary and the Audience Award for US Documentary, reported Deadline.

Jill Soloway won the Directing Award for US Dramatic for 'Afternoon Delight' and Zachary Heinzerling took the Directing Award for US Documentary for 'Cutie and the Boxer'.

'Inception' star Joseph Gordon-Levitt hosted the awards ceremony in Park City, Utah, last night. His own directorial feature debut 'Don Jon's Addiction' premiered at this year's Sundance.

 

Actress Lake Bell was handed the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for the film 'In a World...', story of an underachieving vocal coach who is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star.

The US Documentary Editing Award was given to Matthew Hamachek for 'Gideon's Army', while the US Dramatic Cinematography Award went to Bradford Young for 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' and 'Mother of George'.

Richard Rowley won the US Documentary Cinematography Award for 'Dirty Wars', while the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design went to Shane Carruth and Johnny Marshall for 'Upstream Color'.

US Dramatic Special Jury Award went to Actors Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley for their high school student roles in 'The Spectacular Now'.

'American Promise' and 'Inequality for All' won the US Documentary Special Jury Award.

In the world cinema section, the Dramatic Audience Award was given to 'Metro Manila' from UK, Documentary Audience Award went to 'The Square (Al Midan)' from Egypt, the Dramatic Directing Award was handed to Sebastian Silva for the film 'Crystal Fairy' from Chile and the Screenwriting Award was bagged by 'Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)' from Afghanistan.

The Special Jury Prize World Cinema Documentary was given to 'Pussy Riot

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First Published: Jan 27 2013 | 8:18 PM IST

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