Sundance Film Festival award winners 1998
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1. Slam (1998)
R | 100 min | Drama
Grand Jury Prize, 1998 Sundance Film Festival. A talented youth (Saul Williams) copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams. Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" costars.
Director: Marc Levin | Stars: Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Lawrence Wilson
Votes: 2,449 | Gross: $0.98M
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
2. Frat House (1998)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary exploring what it happens when you pledge to a frat house.
Directors: Andrew Gurland, Todd Phillips
Votes: 480
Grand Jury Prize Documentary
3. The Farm: Angola, USA (1998)
88 min | Documentary
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
Directors: Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack | Stars: Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford, Wilbert Rideau
Votes: 814
Grand Jury Prize Documentary
4. Miss Monday (1998)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A writer suffering a block decides to watch a young woman as a role model for his novel, but finds more than he bargained for.
Director: Benson Lee | Stars: James Hicks, Andrea Hart, Alex Giannini, Nick Moran
Votes: 212
Special Jury Prize for Acting
5. Smoke Signals (1998)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer
Votes: 12,598 | Gross: $6.72M
Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic Audience Award Dramatic
6. Divine Trash (1998)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Yeager | Stars: John Waters, Pat Waters, John Waters Sr., Steve Buscemi
Votes: 1,193 | Gross: $0.04M
Filmmakers Trophy Documentary
7. Pi (1998)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart
Votes: 186,370 | Gross: $3.22M
Directing Award Dramatic
8. Moment of Impact (1998)
117 min | Documentary
On April Fool's Day, 1989, a man crossing the road between two garage sales was hit by a car and thrown into a state between life and death. Nine years later, his daughter uses her camera ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Loktev | Stars: Larisa Loktev, Leonid Loktev, Julia Loktev
Votes: 19
Directing Award Documentar
9. 2by4 (1998)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Johnnie feels a lot of pressure lately. He's the foreman on his uncle's construction crew, and money seems to be going astray. His girlfriend begins pressuring him for more of a commitment ... See full summary »
Director: Jimmy Smallhorne | Stars: Jimmy Smallhorne, Chris O'Neill, Bradley Fitts, Holyoke Joe
Votes: 287 | Gross: $0.02M
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic
10. Wild Man Blues (1997)
PG | 105 min | Documentary, Music, Romance
Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Soon-Yi Previn, Dan Barrett
Votes: 2,291 | Gross: $0.43M
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary
11. High Art (1998)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson, Gabriel Mann
Votes: 11,110 | Gross: $1.93M
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
12. The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998)
R | 86 min | Documentary, Music
The Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Flea, Keith Morris, Eyeball, Myke Chambers
Votes: 1,584
Freedom of Expression Award
13. Who the Hell Is Juliette? (1997)
91 min | Documentary, Music
Cinematographer Carlos Macovich met Yuliet Ortega, a young "jinetera" (prostitute) from Havana, when he shot a video in Cuba, starring model Fabiola Quiroz. When he realized that the two ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Marcovich | Stars: Yuliet Ortega, Fabiola Quiroz, Jorge Quiroz, Victor Ortega
Votes: 587
Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema
14. Out of the Past (1998)
R | 97 min | Documentary
In 1995, Kelli Peterson started a gay and straight club at her Salt Lake City high school. The story of her ensuing battle with school authorities in interspersed with looks back at the ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Dupre | Stars: Stephen Spinella, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cherry Jones, Edward Norton
Votes: 199 | Gross: $0.01M
Audience Award Documentary
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