The 2013 Sundance Film Festival conclude on Sunday with the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature Film awarded to "Fruitvale" director and screenwriter Ryan Coogler.
"Fruitvale" tells the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008. Its based on the infamous BART police shooting of Oscar Grant.
The film stars Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Melonie Diaz, Ahna O'Reilly, Kevin Durand, and Chad Michael Murray.
Coogler is a 26-year-old filmmaker from the Bay Area and a graduate of the MFA program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
While at USC, Coogler made several short films, including "Locks, Gap, and Fig," which won the 2011 HBO Short Film Award at the American Black Film Festival. His feature script for "Fruitvale" was selected for the 2012 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
Here's a full list of award winners from this year's Sundance Film Festival:
- U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Fruitvale
- U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Blood Brother
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Jiseul
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary A River Changes Course
- Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura Fruitvale
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura Blood Brother
- Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic Metro Manila
- Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary The Square
- Audience Award: Best of NEXT This is Martin Bonner
- Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic Afternoon Delight
- Directing Award: U. S. Documentary Cutie and the Boxer
- Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic Crystal Fairy
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
- Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
- Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic Mother of George
- Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary Dirty Wars
- Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic Lasting
- Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary Who Is Dayani Cristal?
- U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking Inequality for All
- U. S. Documentary Special Jury award for Achievement in Filmmaking American Promise
- U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
- U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, Upstream Color
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award Circles
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
- Editing Award: U. S. Documentary Gideon’s Army
- Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary The Summit
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic In A World…
- Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Computer Chess
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize The Whistle
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction Whiplash
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction The Date
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction Skinningrove
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation Irish Folk Furniture
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting Joel Nagle, Palimpsest
- Short Film Special Jury Award Kahlil Joseph, Until the Quiet Comes
- Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube Catnip: Egress to Oblivion
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