Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Dramatic
Grand Jury
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by Benh Zeitlin
Benh Zeitlin's mythic and rapturous debut about Hushpuppy, a six-year-old girl living in a Louisiana bayou community beyond the levees, who faces a rising tide and her ailing father.
Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury
The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
Bart Layton's stranger-than-fiction documentary about a French con man who impersonated a missing Texas boy and was accepted by his family, raising disturbing questions about what they knew.