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Park City • Taylor Sheridan wasn't awake when the news broke that he got his first Academy Award nomination.
"I'm at Sundance, so I'm continually sleep-deprived. I've been to like 35 cocktail parties and four movies," said Sheridan, who received an Oscar nomination in the original screenplay category for his Texas crime thriller "Hell or High Water."
So Sheridan, who premiered his directorial debut "Wind River" at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night, slept through the Academy's announcement at 6:18 a.m. local time.
He didn't sleep long. "The phone started screaming at about 6:30," he said.
"Hell or High Water" received four nominations in all: Best Picture, screenplay, film editing, and a supporting-actor nod for Jeff Bridges.
Getting an Oscar nomination, especially for his second screenplay (his first was the drug-cartel thriller "Sicario"), is "a pretty humbling, shocking thing," Sheridan said.
"I'm not usually short on words," Sheridan said as he tried to describe his feelings. "People watch these awards when they're kids. It's not something you think you're ever going to attain."
Neither is debuting a movie at Sundance.
"It's pretty overwhelming," Sheridan said of the "Wind River" debut. "The audience response has been great."
The Weinstein Company has the U.S. rights to "Wind River," and Sheridan said he expects a fall release.