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...acceptance material from Sundance kept stressing how the festival was about having your work seen by an audience and not about the awards, which made it clear that it was all about winning an award. It also kept addressing everything to the director, in this case a team of respected visual artists called Walter Robot, instead of to me, the star and writer. Sundance seems to think directors matter. As if people fly to Utah for a film festival because it was started by the director of The Legend of Bagger Vance...
...sure where the award ceremony for the feature films was held, but the shorts awards were given out a mile from town at a weird '80s dance party with a really bad buffet in a room without seats. I did not see Robert Redford. Standing near the stage, rehearsing my speech, I was relieved not to get any of the eight "honorable mentions," which is some kind of Sundancespeak for "loser." But when the actual award was given, they called up a young hipster named Destin Cretton, who not only did not have a speech prepared but also was holding...
...After the circus moves on back to L.A. and New York, the locals of Park City, on whose backs the festival rests, come together to watch the “Best of Fest” at several Sundance venues. I was lucky enough to get tickets to the Audience Award Winner for Documentary, “The Cove,” which focused on the annual slaughter of dolphins in Japan. It was one of the most moving films I had ever seen in my life and was so intense it played more like an action movie than a documentary...
Golden Globe-winning actor James Franco will receive the Hasty Pudding Theatrical’s 2009 Man of the Year award next Friday, the group announced earlier today. Franco is perhaps best know for his roles as Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man trilogy and actor James Dean in the biographical TNT movie, which earned him the 2001 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a miniseries or television film. The 30-year-old California native also appeared in the 90s television series “Freaks and Geeks” and the films “Pineapple Express?...
...Year award was first presented in 1963, twelve years after the group established its Woman of the Year award. Last year's Man of the Year was actor Christopher Walken...