Benh Zeitlin was presented the Sutherland Award - awarded to the most "original and imaginative feature debut" screened at the festival - for the critically acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Remove the indie "Beasts of the Southern Wild" from the list, by comparison a short subject at 93 minutes, and the average running time jumps to 141 long minutes, a length that sorely tests the ever-shortening patience of most viewers not to check their phones for texts.