In most years, covering the Sundance Film Festival in the cold and snow when the Oscar nominations are being announced in balmy Southern California might seem like an exile of the cruelest sort. But 2011 is not most years: 2011 is the year that Sundance ruled.
It was exactly one year ago that I saw Jacki Weaver, the chilling criminal matriarch in the Australian movie "Animal Kingdom," which had its world premiere at Sundance, walking cheerfully alone and unnoticed on this city's Park Avenue. Now she is an Oscar nominee for supporting actress.
"It's great the way they nurture and bring attention to little independent films that wouldn't get a lot of attention otherwise," Weaver said Tuesday. "A lot of what's happened to me is thanks to Sundance."
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