Tribeca Film Festival Prize Winners

May 2, 2009 at 5:38am PST
Tags: awards, Elia Kazan, Mary-Kate Olsen, Meg Ryan, Robert De Niro, Tribeca Film Festival, Uma Thurman, Whoopi Goldberg, Zoe Kazan
Photos: TribecaFilm.com

The Tribeca Film Festival handed out this year’s honors on Thursday.

This year’s panel of jurors for Robert De Niro’s signature film festival included Meg Ryan, Uma Thurman, Mary-Kate Olsen and Whoopi Goldberg.

Top honors went to the Iranian film About Elly from director Asghar Farhadi.

The festival’s audience award winner will be announced on Saturday evening.

This year’s honorees, including Elia Kazan’s granddaughter, Zoe, who was honored as best actress, include:

Best Actor - Ciaran Hinds (The Eclipse)
Best Actress - Zoe Kazan (The Exploding Girl)
Best Feature Film - About Elly
Best Feature Documentary - Racing Dreams
Best Narrative - Here and There
Best Documentary - Partly Private
Best New Narrative Filmmaker - Rune Denstad Langlo (North)
Best New Documentary Filmmaker - Ian Olds (Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi)

Congratulations to all of this year's honorees.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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