Sundance 2012 Awards Revealed – ‘Beasts’ & ‘Surrogate’ Top Winners

The official awards for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. The Sundance awards are always very interesting to follow each year, because the winners are either entirely unexpected or totally deserving, and we’ve certainly got plenty of both again this year. However, the biggest winner and my own top favorite film of the festival was Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, a tremendous piece of cinema (read my review) which is one of the best discoveries of this year’s fest. The full list of winners, including the five Audience Award winners (to also keep an eye on), can be found below. 2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL JURY AWARDS: The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Beasts of the Southern Wild, directed by Benh Zeitlin — Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is …