Frozen River
SUNDANCE
Grand jury prize: dramatic award
Frozen River Dir: Courtney Hunt (w'wide gross: $2.3m)
Grand Jury Prize documentary award
Trouble The Water Dirs: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal ($481,000)
Audience award (dramatic)
The Wackness Dir: Jonathan Levine ($2.8m)
Audience award (documentary)
Fields Of Fuel Dir: Josh Tickell
GOTHENBERG
Nordic film award
Let the Right One In Dir: Tomas Alfredson ($2.8m)
Wonderful Town
ROTTERDAM
Vpro Tiger awards
Wonderful Town Dir: Aditya Assarat ($216,000)
Flower In The Pocket Dir: Liew Seng-tat ($5,000)
Go With Peace Jamil Dir: Omar Shargawi
Audience award
Persepolis Dir: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud ($22.4m)
Elite Squad
BERLIN
Golden Bear
The Elite Squad Dir: Jose Padilha ($13.2m)
Audience award
Lemon Tree Dir: Eran Riklis ($4.8m)
TRIBECA
Audience award
War Child Dir: C Karim Chrobog
The founders award for best narrative feature
Let The Right One In Dir: Tomas Alfredson ($2.8m)
The Class
CANNES
Palme d'Or
The Class Dir: Laurent Cantet ($15.8m)
Camera d'Or
Hunger Dir: Steve McQueen ($1.9m)
Somers Town
EDINBURGH
Michael Powell award for best new British feature
Somers Town Dir: Shane Meadows ($333,000)
Audience award
Man On Wire Dir: James Marsh ($4.5m)
LOCARNO
Golden Leopard
Parque Via Dir: Enrique Rivero
Terribly Happy
KARLOVY VARY
Crystal Globe
Terribly Happy Dir: Henrik Ruben Genz ($2.3m)
Audience award
12 Dir: Nikita Mikhalkov ($7.1m)
HAUGESUND
Audience award
A Man Comes Home Dir: Thomas Vinterberg ($405,000)
The Wrestler
VENICE
Golden Lion
The Wrestler Dir: Darren Aronofsky
TORONTO
People's choice award
Slumdog Millionaire Dir: Danny Boyle ($6.8m)
Discovery award
Hunger Dir: Steve McQueen ($1.9m)
Buick Riviera
SARAJEVO
Heart of Sarajevo award for best film
Buick Riviera Dir: Goran Rusinovic
PUSAN
New Currents Awards, best film (ex aequo)
Land Of Scarecrows Dir: Roh Gyeong-tae and Naked Of Defenses Dir: Masahide Ichii
Audience award
100 Dir: Chris Martinez
Pandora's Box
SAN SEBASTIAN
Golden Shell
Pandora's Box Dir: Yesim Ustaoglu
Audience award
Burn After Reading Dirs: Joel and Ethan Coen ($94.8m)
LONDON
Sutherland Trophy
Tulpan Dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Still Walking
MAR DEL PLATA
Golden Astor
Still Walking Dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Documentary festivals
HOT DOCS
Best international feature documentary award
The English Surgeon Dir: Geoffrey Smith
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST
Audience award
The Fallen Dir: Morgan Matthews
IDFA
Vpro Joris Ivens award
Burma VJ - Reporting From A Closed Country Dir: Anders Ostergaard
Man On Wire
BRITDOC
British feature film documentary prize
Man On Wire Dir: James Marsh ($4.5m)
Audience award
Heavy Load Dir: Jerry Rothwell
Short film festivals
CLERMONT-FERRAND
Grand prize
On The Line Dir: Reto Caffi
Audience award
The Wednesdays Dir: Conor Ferguson
ASPEN SHORTFEST
Best drama
Waves Dir: Adrian Sitaru
Best comedy
Spider Dir: Nash Edgerton
Audience award (ex aequo)
Come Back To Sudan Dir: Daniel Junge, Patti Bonnet and One Bridge To The Next Dir: Kim A Snyder
CANNES
Palme d'Or best short film.
Megatron Dir: Marian Crisan
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