Best Narrative Film
28 Hotel Rooms
Young & Wild
Keep the Lights On 

Best Documentary
West of Memphis
Indie Game 
Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry 

Best Director
Marialy Rivas, Young & Wild
Ian Sachs, Keep the Lights On 
So Yong Kim, For Ellen

Best Lead Actor
Thure Lindhardt, Keep the Lights On
Kim Kold, Teddy Bear
John Hawkes, The Surrogate
Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed 

Best Lead Actress
Marin Ireland, 28 Hotel Rooms 
Alicia Rodriguez, Young and Wild
Felicity Price, Wish You Were Here 

Best Supporting Actor
Mark Webber, Save the Date
Felipe Pinto, Young & Wild
Marek Sacha, Four Suns 

Best Supporting Actress
Shaylena Manigo, For Ellen
Lizzie Kaplan, Bachelorette 
Amy Schumer, Price Check 

Best Cinematography
David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil 
Doug Emmet, 28 Hotel Rooms 
Keiichi Kobayashi, About the Pink Sky 

Best Score
Jonathan Snipes, Room 237
Johann Johannson, For Ellen

Best Editing - Dramatic
Andrea Chignoli & Sebastian Sepulveda, Young & Wild
Joseph Krings, 28 Hotel Rooms 

Best Editing - Documentary
Lisanne Pajot & James Swirskey, Indie Game
Hannele Halm, China Heavyweight 

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Best Grossout of the Festival
The Demonbitch in V/H/S
The Octopussy from Grabbers 

Most Endings in One Film
Red Lights

Most See Through Sentimental Garbage
Robot & Frank

Freakiest Film that Knows Its Freaky
Room 237

Queen of Sundance
Parker Posey

Best Tweeter of Sundance
Mike Birbiglia, @birbigs

Most Slamming Body - Male
Felipe Pinto, Young & Wild
Thure Lindhardt - Keep the Lights On
Mark Webber - Save the Date

Most Slamming Body - Female
Helen Hunt, The Surrogate

Best Dream Sequences
Sleepwalk With Me

Honorable Mention
Michael Rainey Jr - Holding his own opposite Common
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Great performance but you should have had more material 
Paul Dano - Greatest lip sync of a whitesnake song *EVER* 

Hello I Must Be Going
Dir by Todd Louiso

The wonderful thing about this film and what makes it truly special is the way the comedy is so embedded in the neurosis of the lead character, played with such an honest nakedness by Melanie Lynskey. I”m not kidding when I say nearly every line is a laugh line but it never feels put on or false, and that’s a credit owed entirely to her performance. It’s a dangerous line to walk, but she’s successful. Blythe Danner gives a knockout performance as the mother of a woman who has not lived up to her expectations. Todd Louiso directs the film so sensitively and you can totally see bits of his persona in the lead character. A plus!

MY TOP 86 MUST SEE MOVIES OF SUNDANCE 2012
(ps. if i see 40 movies off this list I will be happy)
(pps. no cheating this year, shorts count as 1)
(ppps. maybe) 

2 Days in New York
5 Broken Cameras
About the Pink Sky
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
The Ambassador
Arbitrage
Bachelorette
Big Boys Gone Bananas
Black Rock
California Solo
Can
Celeste and Jesse Forever
China Heavyweight
The Comedy
Compliance
Corpo Celeste
Detropia
Elena
The End of Love
Escape Fire
Excision
Father’s Chair
A Fierce Green Fire
The First Time
For a Good Time Call
For Ellen
Four Suns
Goats
Grabbers
Hello I Must Be Going
The House I Live In
How to Survive a Plague
I Am Not A Hipster
The Imposter
Indie Game
The Invisible War
John Dies at the End
Keep the Lights On
Kid Thing
L
The Last Elvis
Liberal Arts
Love Free or Die
Luv
Madrid, 1987
Marina Abramovic
Me at the Zoo
Monsieur Lazhar
Mosquita Y Mari
My Brother the Devil
Nobody Walks
Oslo, August 31st 
Price Check
Putin’s Kiss
The Queen of Versailles
The Raid
Red Lights
Robot and Frank
Room 237
Safety Not Guaranteed
Save the Date 
Searching For Sugar Man
Shadow Dancer
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Slavery By Another Name 
Sleepwalk With Me
Smashed
Teddy Bear
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
Twenty Eight Hotel Rooms
V/H/S
West of Memphis
Where Do We Go Now
Wish You Were Here
The Words
Wrong
Young and Wild
Your Sister’s Sister 

Shorts I
Shorts II
Shorts III
Shorts IV
Shorts V
Animated Shorts
Documentary Shorts
New Frontier Shorts