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FEBRUARY is shaping up to be its usual bitterly cold self. The same rawness was in the air 12 years ago on the day a nine-year-old girl from West…

The full list of awards: U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic: “CODA,” Sian Heder U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary: “Summer of Soul,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Directing Award – U.S. Dramatic: Sian Heder, “CODA” Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch, “On the Count of Three” Directing Award – U.S. Documentary: “Users,” Natalia Almada Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – U.S. Documentary: Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno, “Homeroom” U.S...

Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. *Park City, UT — After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton ...

Sian Heder’s “CODA,” one of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s opening-day screenings, was the big winner at the awards ceremony Tuesday night. The film took home the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, as well as the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast. Heder was also honored with the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo by Seacia Pavao A dramatic feature about the only member of a family who can hear and a doc...

Top doc honors went to 'Summer of Soul' from director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who accepted his award from inside a car on his "way to work" in New York City at 'The Tonight Show.'

"CODA" big winner at 2021 Sundance Film Festival By David Morgan February 2, 2021 / 10:56 PM / CBS News "CODA," a touching coming-of-age dramedy about a young girl in conflict with her deaf parents and brother as she attempts to pursue singing — a talent they cannot fully appreciate — received top honors at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The film received the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Drama, as well as the Audience Award, a directors award for Siân Heder and a ...

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot ...

Sundance 2021 Winners: CODA Sweeps With Four Prizes, Questloves Documentary Summer Of Soul Earns Two Adam B. Vary, provided by Feb. 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The 2021 Sundance Film Festival concluded Tuesday night with a virtual awards ceremony, honoring “CODA” — a family drama centered on a high school student who is the child of deaf adults (hence the title) — with four prizes in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category: the grand jury prize, the directing prize, the audience award ...

Sundance Review: On the Count of Three Is a Dark Suicide Comedy That Cant Find the Right Tone Directed by Jerrod Carmichael Starring Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, Henry Winkler Published Feb 01, 2021 6 The way we talk about suicide as a society is evolving, and it absolutely should, as more people understand the real-life impacts of rhetoric and how such a potentially dangerous topic is framed. As such, using suicide as the basis for darkly comedic thriller would have ...

There’s a moment in Jerrod Carmichael‘s directorial debut On the Count of Three where the comedian’s character Val delivers a line that feels like it could have easily been part of one of his stand-up acts. As he ponders why suicide is looked down upon by so many people, Val says, “When you’re a kid they tell you the worst thing in life is to be a quitter. Why? Quitting’s amazing. It just means you get to stop doing something you hate.” But in this movie, that line is much more ...