List of Sundance Film Festival award winners


The following includes a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival.

1980s

1984">1984 in film">1984

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1987">1987 in film">1987

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Waiting for the Moon
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Trouble with Dick
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Sherman's March
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – No Picnic
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Chile: When Will It End?
  • Special Jury Recognition – Working Girls
  • Special Jury Recognition – River's Edge
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Chile: When Will It End?
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality – Sullivan's Pavilion
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1990s

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1991">1991 in film">1991

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1992">1992 in film">1992

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – In the Soup
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – A Brief History of Time
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Finding Christa
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Zebrahead
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – A Brief History of Time
  • Audience Award Dramatic – The Waterdance
  • Audience Award Documentary – Brother's Keeper
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Swoon
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Shoot for the Contents
  • Special Jury Recognition – The Hours and Times
  • Special Jury Recognition – My Crasy Life
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Seymour Cassel for his performance in In the Soup
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Waterdance
  • Piper-Heidseick Award for Independent Vision – John Turturro
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1993">1993 in film">1993

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1994">1994 in film">1994

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1995">1995 in film">1995

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1996">1996 in film">1996

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1997">1997 in film">1997

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1998">1998 in film">1998

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1999">1999 in film">1999

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Movie
  • Audience Award Documentary – Genghis Blues
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Rabbit in the Moon
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Judy Berlin
  • Directing Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
  • Freedom of Expression Award – The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Joe the King
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Guinevere
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Run Lola Run
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Train of Life
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Tumbleweeds
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Stubble Trouble
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Come unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – A Pack of Gifts, Now
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Atomic Tabasco
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Devil Doll/Ring Pull
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Little Saints
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – More
  • Special Jury Prize – On the Ropes
  • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Life is to Whistle
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Happy, Texas
  • Special Jury Prize for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking – Treasure Island
  • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Laura Dern
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2000s

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2003">2003 in film">2003

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Dopamine
  • Audience Award Documentary – My Flesh and Blood
  • Audience Award Dramatic – The Station Agent
  • Directing Award Dramatic – thirteen
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Stevie
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Quattro Noza
  • Freedom of Expression Award – What I Want My Words to Do to You
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Capturing the Friedmans
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – American Splendor
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Ocularist
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Planets
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Pan with Us
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Freak
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Asylum
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Fits & Starts
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Earthquake
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – From the 104th Floor
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Terminal Bar
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – One
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Broken Saints
  • Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking – S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse
  • Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – LOR
  • Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Icarus of Pittsburgh
  • Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bumble Beeing
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Station Agent
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Whale Rider
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2004">2004 in film">2004

  • Alfred P. Sloan PrizePrimer
  • Audience Award Documentary – Born into Brothels
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Maria Full of Grace
  • Directing Award Documentary – Super Size Me
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Down to the Bone
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Imelda
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – November
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Repatriation
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Dig!
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Primer
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Curtis
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Harvie Krumpet
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Krumped
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Papillon D’Amour
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spokane
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – When the Storm Came
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Gowanus, Brooklyn
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Tomo
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Strangers by Erez Tadmor
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Drum Machine
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking – Wet Dreams and False Images
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bathtime in Clerkenwell
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms – The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Texas Upgringing
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Farmingville
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Brother to Brother
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Vera Farmiga for her performance in Down to the Bone
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Larry Gross for We Don't Live Here Anymore
  • World Cinema Audience Award DocumentaryThe Corporation
  • World Cinema Audience Award DramaticSeducing Doctor Lewis
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2005">2005 in film">2005

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2006">2006 in film">2006

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2007">2007 in film">2007

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2008">2008 in film">2008

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2009">2009 in film">2009

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2010s

2010">2010 in film">2010

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Obselidia
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – happythankyoumoreplease
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Waiting for "Superman"
  • Best of NEXT – Homewrecker (2010 film)
  • Directing Award Documentary – Smash His Camera
  • Directing Award Dramatic – 3 Backyards
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Obselidia
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Oath
  • Editing Award Documentary – Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Restrepo
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Winter's Bone
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Born Sweet
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Can We Talk?
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – How I Met Your Father
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Quadrangle
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Rob and Valentyna in Scotland
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Young Love
  • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking – The Six Dollar Fifty Man
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Gasland
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Sympathy for Delicious
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Winter's Bone
  • World Cinema Audience Award Documentary – Waste Land
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Undertow
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award Documentary – His & Hers
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award Dramatic – The Man Next Door
  • World Cinema Directing Award Documentary – Space Tourists
  • World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic – Southern District
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – A Film Unfinished
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – The Red Chapel (Det Røde Kapel)
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – Animal Kingdom
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Southern District
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Enemies of the People
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting – Grown Up Movie Star
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2011">2011 Sundance Film Festival">2011

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – How to Die in Oregon
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Like Crazy
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Hell and Back Again
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic – Happy, Happy
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Buck
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Circumstance
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Senna
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Kinyarwanda
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – to.get.her
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – James Marsh for Project Nim
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sam Levinson for Another Happy Day
  • World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award – Erez Kav-El for Restoration
  • Documentary Editing Award – Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Curry for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist for The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Eric Strauss, Ryan Hill and Peter Hutchens for The Redemption of General Butt Naked
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Bradford Young for Pariah
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Danfung Dennis for Hell and Back Again
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Diego F. Jimenez for All Your Dead Ones
  • World Dramatic Special Jury Prizes for Breakout Performances – Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize – Position Among the Stars
  • Documentary Special Jury Prize – Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
  • Dramatic Special Jury Prize – Another Earth
  • Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance – Felicity Jones for Like Crazy
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Brick Novax Pt 1 and 2
  • International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Deeper Than Yesterday
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Choke
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Diarchy
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – The External World
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – The Legend of Beaver Dam
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Out of Reach
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Protoparticles
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Another Earth
  • Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Bogdan Mustata of Romania for Wolf, Ernesto Contrera of Mexico for I Dream In Another Language, Seng Tat Liew of Malaysia for In What City Does It Live?, and Talya Lavie of Israel for Zero Motivation
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer
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2012">2012 Sundance Film Festival">2012

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2013">2013 Sundance Film Festival">2013

  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Fruitvale
  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Blood Brother
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Jiseul
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – A River Changes Course
  • Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura – Fruitvale
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura – Blood Brother
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Metro Manila
  • Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary – The Square
  • Audience Award: Best of NEXT – This Is Martin Bonner
  • Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic – Afternoon Delight
  • Directing Award: U. S. Documentary – Cutie and the Boxer
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Crystal Fairy
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
  • Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic – Ain't Them Bodies Saints
  • Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic – Mother of George
  • Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary – Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
  • Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Lasting
  • Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary – Who Is Dayani Cristal?
  • U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking – Inequality for All
  • U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking – American Promise
  • U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
  • U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design – Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, Upstream Color
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award – Circles
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit – Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
  • Editing Award: U. S. Documentary – Gideon's Army
  • Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Summit
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – In a World...
  • Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Computer Chess
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Whistle
  • Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – Whiplash
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Date
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – Skinningrove
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Irish Folk Furniture
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Joel Nagle, Palimpsest
  • Short Film Special Jury Award – Kahlil Joseph, Until the Quiet Comes
  • Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube – Catnip: Egress to Oblivion
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2014">2014 Sundance Film Festival">2014

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2015">2015 Sundance Film Festival">2015

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Robert Eggers for The Witch
  • Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Brandon Trost for The Diary of a Teenage Girl
  • Editing Award: Dramatic – Lee Haugen for Dope
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Tim Talbott for The Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Special Jury Prize for Collaborative Vision: Dramatic – Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim for Advantageous
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Wolfpack by Crystal Moselle
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land
  • Cinematography Award: Documentary – Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll for Cartel Land
  • Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature: Documentary – Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe for (T)error
  • Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – Western by Bill and Turner Ross
  • Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – 3½ Minutes by Marc Silver
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West by John Maclean
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Alantė Kavaitė for The Summer of Sangailé
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Germain McMicking for Partisan
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic – Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic – Jack Reynor for Glassland
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Russian Woodpecker by Chad Gracia
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Kim Longinotto for Dreamcatcher
  • World Cinema Editing Award: Documentary – Jim Scott for How to Change the World
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Impact: Documentary – Pervert Park by Frida and Lasse Barkfors
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Unparalleled Access: Documentary – The Chinese Mayor by Hao Zhou
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Meru by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Umrika by Prashant Nair
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Dark Horse by Louise Osmond
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – James White by Josh Mond
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket by Paul Cabon
  • Short Film Jury Award: International – Oh Lucy! by Atsuko Hirayanagi
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul by Kitty Green
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF by Frankie Shaw
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting: Short Filmmaking – Laure Calamy for Back Alley by Cécile Ducrocq
  • Special Jury Prize for Visual Poetry: Short Filmmaking – Object by Paulina Skibińska
  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment
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2016">2016 Sundance Film Festival">2016

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2017">2017 Sundance Film Festival">2017

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2018">2018 Sundance Film Festival">2018

2019">2019 Sundance Film Festival">2019

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2020s

2020">2020 Sundance Film Festival">2020

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2021">2021 Sundance Film Festival">2021

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – CODA
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Summer of Soul
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Hive
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Flee
  • Audience Award: U.S.Dramatic – CODA
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Summer of Soul
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Hive
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Writing with Fire
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Ma Belle, My Beauty
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Siân Heder for CODA
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Natalia Almada for Users
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Blerta Basholli for Hive
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Hogir Hirori for Sabaya
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch for On the Count of Three
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno for Homeroom
  • NEXT Innovator Award - Dash Shaw for Cryptozoo
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of CODA
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Best Actor - Clifton Collins Jr. for Jockey
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Emerging Filmmaker - Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for Cusp
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Nonfiction Experimentation - Theo Anthony for All Light, Everywhere
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Vérité Filmmaking - Camilla Nielsson for President
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change - Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh for Writing with Fire
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting - Jesmark Scicluna for Luzzu
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision - Baz Poonpiriya for One for the Road
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize - Lizard
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction - The Touch of the Master's Hand
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - Bambirak
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction - Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation - Souvenir Souvenir
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting - Wiggle Room
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting - The Criminals
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Son of Monarchs
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction - Nicole Salazar for Philly D.A.
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction - Natalie Qasabian for Run
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction - Juli Vizza
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction - Terilyn Shropshire
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award - Meryam Joobeur for Motherhood
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2022">2022 Sundance Film Festival">2022

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Nanny
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Exiles
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Utama
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – All That Breathes
  • Festival Favorite – Navalny
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Cha Cha Real Smooth
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Navalny
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Girl Picture
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Territory
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Framing Agnes
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Jamie Dack for Palm Trees and Power Lines
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Reid Davenport for I Didn't See You There
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Maryna Er Gorbach for Klondike
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Simon Lereng Wilmont for A House Made of Splinters
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – K.D. Dávila for Emergency
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput for Fire of Love
  • NEXT Innovator Award – Chase Joynt for Framing Agnes
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of 892
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision – Bradley Rust Gray for blood
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Margaret Brown for Descendant
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change – Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee for Aftershock
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Teresa Sánchez for Dos Estaciones
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit – Martika Ramirez Escobar for Leonor Will Never Die
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing for Midwives
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft – Alex Pritz for The Territory
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Headhunter's Daughter
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – If I Go Will They Miss Me
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Warsha
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Displaced
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Night Bus
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – After Yang
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Su Kim for Free Chol Soo Lee
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Amanda Marshall for God's Country
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Toby Shimin
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Dody Dorn
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Hasan Hadi for The President's Cake
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2023">2023 Sundance Film Festival">2023

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – A Thousand and One
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Scrapper
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Eternal Memory
  • Festival Favorite – Radical
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Persian Version
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Beyond Utopia
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Shayda
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – 20 Days in Mariupol
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Kokomo City
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Sing J. Lee for The Accidental Getaway Driver
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Luke Lorentzen for A Still Small Voice
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Marija Kavtaradze for Slow
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Anna Hints for Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Maryam Keshavarz for The Persian Version
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Daniela I. Quiroz for Going Varsity in Mariachi
  • NEXT Innovator Award – D. Smith for Kokomo City
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Theater Camp
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – The creative team of Magazine Dreams
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Lío Mehiel for Mutt
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision – The Stroll
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression – Bad Press
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Fantastic Machine
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Against the Tide
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Sofia Alaoui for Animalia
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematography – Lílis Soares for Mami Wata
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – When You Left Me On That Boulevard
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Rest Stop
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Kidnapping of the Bride
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Will You Look At Me
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – The Flying Sailor
  • Short Film Special Jury Award, International: Directing – AliEN0089
  • Short Film Special Jury Award, U.S.: Directing – The Vacation
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Pod Generation
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Jess Devaney for It’s Only Life After All
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Kara Durrett for The Starling Girl
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Mary Manhardt
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Troy Takaki
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Olive Nwosu for Lady''
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2024">2024 Sundance Film Festival">2024

The following awards were given out:
  • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers
  • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo
  • World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness
  • Short Film – The Masterpiece
  • Festival Favorite – Daughters
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Daughters
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls
  • World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin
  • NEXT – Kneecap
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
  • Directing Award: 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
  • 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 ChangeUnion
  • 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
  • U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die
  • International Fiction: The Stag
  • Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral
  • Animation: Bug Diner
  • 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''

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  • U.S. DramaticAtropia by Hailey Gates
  • U.S. DocumentarySeeds by Brittany Shyne
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Cactus Pears by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
  • World Cinema Documentary – Cutting Through Rocks by,
  • Short Film – The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos
  • U.S. DramaticTwinless by James Sweeney
  • U.S. DocumentaryAndré Is an Idiot by Tony Benna
  • World Cinema Dramatic – DJ Ahmet by Georgi M. Unkovski
  • World Cinema Documentary – Prime Minister by Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz
  • NEXT – East of Wall by
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Rashad Frett for Ricky
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Geeta Gandbhir for The Perfect Neighbor
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Alireza Khatami for The Things You Kill
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Mstyslav Chernov for 2000 Meters to Andriivka
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Parker Laramie for André is an Idiot
  • NEXT Innovator Prize – Zodiac Killer Project by Charlie Shackleton
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of Plainclothes
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Dylan O’Brien for Twinless
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award – Life After by Reid Davenport
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling – Selena y Los Dinos by Isabel Castro
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award – Mr. Nobody Against Putin by David Borenstein
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression – Coexistence, My Ass! by Amber Fares
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Georgi M. Unkovski for DJ Ahmet
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Writing – Two Women by Chloé Robichaud and Catherine Léger
  • Next: Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – Mad Bills to Pay by Joel Alfonso Vargas
  • U.S. Fiction – Trokas Duras by Jazmin Garcia
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing Loren Waters – for Tiger
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Animation Directing – May Kindred-Boothby for The Eating of an Orange
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Natalia León for Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Christopher Radcliff for We Were the Scenery
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Chheangkea for Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
  • Festival Favorite Award: Come See Me in the Good Light by Ryan White