2024 Sundance Film Festival
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to 28, 2024. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 6, 2023.
Among the highlighted events included the premiere of a documentary about the 1980s rock band Devo.
Films
Spotlight
Awards
The following awards were given out:Grand Jury Prizes
- U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers
- U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War
- World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo
- World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness
- Short Film – ''The Masterpiece''
Audience Awards
- Festival Favorite – Daughters
- U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟)
- U.S. Documentary – Daughters
- World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls
- World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin
- NEXT – ''Kneecap''
Directing, Screenwriting and Editing
- U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
- U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
- World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
- World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for Frida
- NEXT Innovator Prize – ''Little Death''
Special Jury Prizes
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes
- NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for ''Pisko the Crab Child is in Love''
Short Film Jury Awards
- U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die
- International Fiction: The Stag
- Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral
- Animation: ''Bug Diner''
Sundance Institute Awards
- NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani
- Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions
- Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: ''Love Me''
Acquisitions
Kneecap: Sony Pictures ClassicsIbelin: NetflixA Real Pain: Searchlight PicturesIt's What's Inside: NetflixPresence: NeonGhostlight: IFC Films and Sapan StudiosMy Old Ass: Amazon MGM StudiosSuper/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Warner Bros. Discovery Skywalkers: A Love Story: NetflixThelma: Magnolia PicturesDìdi: Focus FeaturesDaughters: NetflixWill & Harper: NetflixBetween the Temples: Sony Pictures ClassicsGood One: Metrograph PicturesSugarcane: National Geographic Documentary FilmsSebastian: Kino LorberYour Monster: VerticalGirls Will Be Girls: Juno FilmsNever Look Away: Greenwich EntertainmentExhibiting Forgiveness: Roadside AttractionsWinner: VerticalBlack Box Diaries: MTV Documentary FilmsLove Me: Bleecker Street and ShivHans PicturesLuther: Never Too Much: CNN Films and Oprah Winfrey NetworkSoundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Kino LorberAgent of Happiness: Film Movement- Rob Peace: Republic Pictures
- In the Summers: Music Box Films
- The Outrun: Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films
- The Moogai: Samuel Goldwyn Films