2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 1, 2015. What Happened, Miss Simone?, a biographical documentary film about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival. Comedy-drama film Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz, served as the closing night film.

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Awards

The awards ceremony was held on January 30, 2015, at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah. The ceremony was hosted by comedian Tig Notaro.

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Wolfpack
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Russian Woodpecker
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Meru
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Umrika
Audience Award: Best of NEXT – James White
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Witch
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Dreamcatcher
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – The Summer of Sangaile
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Stanford Prison Experiment
Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary – How to Change the World
Editing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dope
Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land
Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Partisan
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Jack Reynor for Glassland and Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact – Pervert Park
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access – The Chinese Mayor
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact – 3½ Minutes
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking – Western
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision – Advantageous
Special Jury Award for Breakout First Feature – (T)ERROR
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment

Additional awards were presented at separate ceremonies. The Shorts Awards were presented January 28, 2015 at the ceremony in Park City, Utah.

Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Oh Lucy!
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket
Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Back Alley
Short Film Special Jury Award for Visual Poetry – Object
Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Haifaa al-Mansour for Be Safe I Love You, K'naan for The Poet, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for Luxembourg, Oskar Sulowski for Rosebuds.
Sundance Institute/NHK Filmmaker Award – Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre for Mustang.
2015 Red Crown Producer's Award – Stephanie Langhoff for The Bronze.

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on December 18, 2014. Presenters of awards are followed by asterisks:
;U.S. Documentary Jury

;U.S. Dramatic Jury

;World Documentary Jury