 The movie won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival; McTeer's performance earned her a Golden Globe as Best Actress and Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the same category; and Kimberly J.Brown, cast as her pre-teen daughter, won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.After serving as executive producer of several smaller, independent projects, O'Connor directed Walt Disney Pictures' "Miracle" (2004), a film about the United States hockey team's victory in the 1980 Winter Olympics.