List of Sundance Film Festival award winners

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This is a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival.

Contents

1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

1980s[]

1984[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Old Enough
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Style Wars
  • Honorable Mention Documentary – Seeing Red
  • Honorable Mention Documentary –
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Last Night at the Alamo
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – When the Mountains Tremble
  • Special Jury Recognition Documentary –
  • Special Jury Recognition Dramatic –

Source:[1]

1985[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Blood Simple
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Seventeen
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Almost You
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Killing Floor
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary –
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Kaddish
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Streetwise
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Times of Harvey Milk
  • Special Jury Recognition Dramatic – Stranger Than Paradise
  • Special Jury Recognition Documentary – In Heaven There Is No Beer?

Sources:[2][3]

1986[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Smooth Talk
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary –
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Desert Hearts
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
  • Special Jury Recognition – Parting Glances
  • Special Jury Recognition –
  • Special Jury Recognition for Youth Comedy – Seven Minutes in Heaven

Source:[4]

1987[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Waiting for the Moon
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic –
  • 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 –

Source:[5]

1988[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Heat and Sunlight
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Beirut: The Last Home Movie
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Rachel River
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Beirut: The Last Home Movie
  • Special Jury Prize – Lemon Sky
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary –
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Viveca Lindfors in Rachel River
  • Special Jury Recognition – The Brave Little Toaster

Source:[6]

1989[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – True Love
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – For All Mankind
  • Audience Award Documentary – For All Mankind
  • Audience Award Dramatic – sex, lies and videotape
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Powwow Highway
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary –
  • Special Jury Recognition –

Source:[7]

1990s[]

1990[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Chameleon Street
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – H-2 Worker
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Water and Power
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – H-2 Worker
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – House Party
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – House Party
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary –
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Longtime Companion
  • Audience Award Documentary – Berkeley in the Sixties
  • Special Jury Recognition – To Sleep with Anger
  • Special Jury Recognition – Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia

Source:[8]

1991[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Poison
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Dream
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Paris Is Burning
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic –
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – American Dream
  • Audience Award Dramatic –
  • Audience Award Documentary – American Dream
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Daughters of the Dust
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary –
  • Special Jury Recognition – Straight Out of Brooklyn
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Hangin' with the Homeboys
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Trust

Source:[9]

1992[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – In the Soup
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – A Brief History of Time
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary –
  • 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 –
  • Special Jury Recognition – The Hours and Times
  • Special Jury Recognition –
  • 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

Source:[10]

1993[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Ruby in Paradise
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Public Access
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Silverlake Life: The View from Here
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic –  [fr]
  • Audience Award Dramatic – El Mariachi
  • Audience Award Documentary –
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic –
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Combination Platter
  • Special Jury Recognition – Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
  • Special Jury Recognition –
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Denzel Washington

Source:[11]

1994[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – What Happened Was...
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Freedom on My Mind
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Clerks
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Fresh
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – What Happened Was...
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Spanking the Monkey
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Picture Bride
  • Audience Award Documentary – Hoop Dreams
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Suture
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary –
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Dialogues with Madwomen
  • Freedom of Expression Award –
  • Special Jury Recognition – Coming Out Under Fire
  • Special Jury Recognition for Acting – Alicia Witt, Renee Humphrey for Fun
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Gena Rowlands

Source:[12]

1995[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Brothers McMullen
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Young Poisoner's Handbook
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Crumb
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Angela
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Black is... Black Ain't
  • Audience Award Documentary – Ballot Measure 9
  • Audience Award Documentary – Unzipped
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Living in Oblivion
  • Freedom of Expression Award –
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing –
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing – Heavy
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing – Rhythm Thief
  • Special Jury Recognition – El héroe
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema –
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Strawberry and Chocolate
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Nonnie & Alex
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Nicolas Cage

Source:[13]

1996[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Welcome to the Dollhouse
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Girls Town
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Care of the Spitfire Grill
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary –
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Big Night
  • Freedom of Expression Award – The Celluloid Closet
  • Special Jury Recognition – When We Were Kings
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lili Taylor for I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Guantanamera
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Wild Horses
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Dianne Wiest

Sources:[14][15]

1997[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Sunday
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Girls Like Us
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Love Jones
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Hurricane
  • Audience Award Documentary – Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Licensed to Kill
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – In the Company of Men
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Family Name
  • Freedom of Expression Award –
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary –
  • Special Jury Recognition – Kirby Dick for SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist / Parker Posey for The House of Yes
  • Latin American Cinema Award –
  • Short Filmmaking Award –
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Deep Crimson
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Tim Robbins

Source:[16]

1998[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Slam
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Frat House (tie)
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – The Farm: Angola, USA (tie)
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting –
  • Special Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Fishbelly White
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Smoke Signals
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Divine Trash
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Pi
  • Directing Award Documentary – Moment of Impact
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – 2by4
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Wild Man Blues
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – High Art
  • Freedom of Expression Award – The Decline of Western Civilization III
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Who the Hell Is Juliette?
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Smoke Signals
  • Audience Award Documentary –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Human Remains
  • Piper-Heidseick Tribute to Independent Vision – Frances McDormand

Source:[17]

1999[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Movie
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • 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 –
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Judy Berlin
  • Directing Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
  • Freedom of Expression Award –
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Joe the King (tie)
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Guinevere (tie)
  • 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

Source:[18]

2000s[]

2000[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Long Night's Journey into Day
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Girlfight & You Can Count On Me (tie)
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Girlfight
  • Directing Award Documentary – Paragraph 175
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – You Can Count On Me
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Dark Days
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Two Family House
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary –
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Committed
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Saving Grace
  • Special Jury Prize for Artistic Achievement –
  • Special Jury Prize for Writing –
  • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – The Tao of Steve
  • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – Songcatcher
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Herod's Law
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – No One Writes to the Colonel
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Darling International
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Kevin Spacey

Source:[19]

2001[]

  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Southern Comfort
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Believer
  • Directing Award Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Scout's Honor
  • World Cinema Audience Award – The Road Home
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – The Deep End
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Memento
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – In the Bedroom
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Children Underground
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema –
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Sin Dejar Huella (English title Without a Trace)
  • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema –
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Piper-Heidsieck Award – Julianne Moore

Source:[20]

2002[]

  • Audience Award Documentary – Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Real Women Have Curves
  • Directing Award Documentary –
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Tadpole
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Blue Vinyl
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Daughter from Danang
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – No Dumb Questions
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Parlor
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Stuck
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Bus 44
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema –
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking –
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary –
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – How to Draw a Bunny
  • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – Manito
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality – Secretary
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Love Liza
  • World Cinema Audience Award – L'ultimo bacio
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Bloody Sunday

Source:[21]

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 –
  • 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

Source:[22]

2004[]

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Primer
  • 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 –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Harvie Krumpet
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spokane
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking –
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Strangers
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation –
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking –
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bathtime in Clerkenwell
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms –
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary –
  • 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 Documentary – The Corporation
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Seducing Doctor Lewis

Source:[23]

2005[]

  • Special Jury Prize for Editing – Murderball
  • Audience Award Documentary – Murderball
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
  • Directing Award Documentary – Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Education of Shelby Knox
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Why We Fight
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Forty Shades of Blue
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Wasp
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – After Innocence
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Amy Adams in Junebug
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Rian Johnson director of Brick
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Shape of the Moon
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Hero
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Brothers
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Liberace of Baghdad
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary –
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic –
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid

Source:[24]

2006[]

  • 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – The House of Sand
  • Audience Award Documentary – God Grew Tired of Us
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Quinceañera
  • Directing Award Documentary – James Longley director of Iraq in Fragments
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Dito Montiel for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
  • Editing Award Documentary – Iraq in Fragments
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – James Longley for Iraq in Fragments
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Tom Richmond for Right at Your Door
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – God Grew Tired of Us
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Quinceañera
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking –
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – American Blackout
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – TV Junkie
  • Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision Dramatic – In Between Days
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Hilary Brougher for Stephanie Daley
  • World Cinema Audience Award Documentary – De Nadie
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – No. 2
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – In the Pit
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – 13 Tzameti
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Into Great Silence
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Dear Pyongyang
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Eve and the Fire Horse

Source:[25]

2007[]

  • 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Dark Matter
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Hear and Now
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Grace Is Gone
  • Directing Award Documentary – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
  • Editing Award Documentary – Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for Nanking
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Benoît Debie for Joshua
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Padre Nuestro
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Death to the Tinman
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – t.o.m.
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand)
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Spitfire 944
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Motodrom
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – The Fighting Cholitas
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Everything Will Be OK
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – The Tube With a Hat
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary – No End in Sight
  • Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Freeheld
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Jess Weixler in Teeth
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind
  • Special Jury Prize for Singularity of Vision Dramatic – Chris Smith, director of The Pool
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic – James C. Strouse for Grace Is Gone
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – In the Shadow of the Moon
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Once
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Enemies of Happiness
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – Sweet Mud
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary –
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – L' Héritage (The Legacy)

Source:[26]

2008[]

  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Sleep Dealer
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Fuel
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – The Wackness
  • Directing Award: Documentary – American Teen
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Ballast
  • Editing Award Documentary – Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Patti Smith: Dream of Life
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Ballast
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Trouble the Water
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Frozen River
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – August 15th
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – La Corona (The Crown)
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spider
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Suspension
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking –
  • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking –
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary – The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
  • Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence – Anywhere, U.S.A.
  • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – Choke
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sleep Dealer
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Captain Abu Raed
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award Documentary –
  • World Cinema Directing Award Documentary –
  • World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic – Mermaid (Rusalka)
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award –
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Man on Wire
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J'ai Toujours Rêvé d'Être un Gangster)
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)

Source:[27]

2009[]

  • 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Adam
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Audience Award: Documentary – The Cove
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre
  • Directing Award Documentary – Natalia Almada for
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Adriano Goldman for Sin Nombre
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – for The September Issue
  • Editing Award Documentary – Karen Schmeer for Sergio
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – We Live in Public
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Omelette
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking –
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Treevenge
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Short Term 12
  • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking – Lies
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Good Hair
  • Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence – Humpday
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic – and Charlyne Yi for Paper Heart
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Afghan Star
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – An Education
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – John Maringouin for Big River Man
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – for An Education
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Havana Marking for Afghan Star
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – and for Burma VJ
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Rough Aunties
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Maid (La Nana)
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Guy Hibbert for Five Minutes of Heaven
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Tibet in Song
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting – Catalina Saavedra for The Maid (La Nana)
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality – Louise-Michel

Source:[28]

2010s[]

2010[]

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Obselidia
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – happythankyoumoreplease
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Waiting for "Superman"
  • Best of NEXT –
  • 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[]

  • 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 –
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award –
  • 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
  • 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[]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The House I Live In
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – The Law in These Parts
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic – Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – The Invisible War
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Surrogate (retitled The Sessions)
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Searching for Sugar Man
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Valley of Saints
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – Sleepwalk with Me
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Robot & Frank
  • U.S. Directing Award: Documentary – The Queen of Versailles
  • U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic – Middle of Nowhere
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – 5 Broken Cameras
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Teddy Bear
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Safety Not Guaranteed
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Young & Wild
  • U.S. Documentary Editing Award – Detropia
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Indie Game: The Movie
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Chasing Ice
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic – Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Putin's Kiss
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – My Brother the Devil
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change –
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing – Smashed and Nobody Walks
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting – The Surrogate (retitled The Sessions)
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision –
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit – Searching for Sugar Man
  • Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking – Fishing Without Nets
  • Short Film Audience Award –

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2013[]

  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Fruitvale (retitled Fruitvale Station)
  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary –
  • 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 (retitled Fruitvale Station)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction –
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Irish Folk Furniture
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – ,
  • Short Film Special Jury Award – Kahlil Joseph,
  • Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube –

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2014[]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Whiplash
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Fishing Without Nets
  • Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Low Down
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Skeleton Twins
  • Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Talent: Dramatic – Dear White People
  • Special Jury Prize for Musical Score: Dramatic – Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Rich Hill
  • Directing Award: Documentary – The Case Against 8
  • Cinematography Award: Documentary – E-Team
  • Editing Award: Documentary – Watchers of the Sky
  • Special Jury Prize for Intuitive Filmmaking: Documentary – The Overnighters
  • Special Jury Prize for Use of Animation: Documentary – Watchers of the Sky
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – To Kill a Man
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – 52 Tuesdays
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Lilting
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Blind
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – God Help the Girl
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Whiplash
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Difret
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – The Green Prince
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – Imperial Dreams
  • Short Filmmaking Audience Award – Chapel Perilous
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – Of God and Dogs
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Yearbook
  • Short Film Jury Award: International – The Cut
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction – I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Gregory Go Boom
  • Special Jury Prize for Unique Vision: Short Filmmaking – Rat Pack Rat
  • Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction: Short Filmmaking – Love. Love. Love.

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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 – by Marc Silver
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West by John Maclean
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – 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

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2016[]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for Swiss Army Man
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Chad Hartigan for Morris From America
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award – for As You Are
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Joe Seo for Spa Night
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance – Melanie Lynskey for The Intervention and Craig Robinson for Morris from America
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Weiner by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Roger Ross Williams for Life, Animated
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski for NUTS!
  • Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – Trapped by Dawn Porter
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing – Robert Greene for Kate Plays Christine
  • Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – The Bad Kids by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Felix van Groeningen for Belgica
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz for Between Land and Sea
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Ana Katz and Inés Bortagaray for Mi Amiga del Parque
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision & Design – The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Michal Marczak for All These Sleepless Nights
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Debut Feature – Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel for When Two Worlds Collide
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Pieter-Jan De Pue for
  • World Cinema Editing Award: Documentary – Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin for We Are X
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Jim: The James Foley Story by Brian Oakes
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Between Sea and Land by Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – First Girl I Loved by Kerem Sanga
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – Thunder Road by Jim Cummings
  • Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – The Procedure by Calvin Lee Reeder
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Maman(s) by Maïmouna Doucouré
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – Bacon & God's Wrath by Sol Friedman
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Edmond by Nina Gantz
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance – Grace Glowicki for Her Friend Adam
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction – Ondřej Hudeček for Peacock
  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerra

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2017[]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Crown Heights by
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and for Ingrid Goes West
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Chanté Adams for Roxanne Roxanne
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director – Maggie Betts for Novitiate
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Daniel Landin for The Yellow Birds
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Dina by and
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for
  • U.S. Documentary Orwell Award - Icarus by Bryan Fogel
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Kim Roberts and for Unrest
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling – Yance Ford for Strong Island
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking – Amanda Lipitz for
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Francis Lee for God's Own Country
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Kirsten Tan for Pop Aye
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions – Geng Jun for Free and Easy
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Manuel Dacosse for Axolotl Overkill
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Pascale Lamche for Winnie
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling – Catherine Bainbridge and for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – for Machines
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – for
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – Gook by Justin Chon
  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize - And so we put goldfish in the pool by Makoto Nagahisa
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction - Lucia, Before and After by Anu Valia
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow's Eye by Francisca Alegría
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction - Alone by Garrett Bradley
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation - Broken – The Women's Prison at Hoheneck by Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl, and Max Mönch
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Cinematography - Dadyaa — The Woodpeckers of Rotha by Pooja Gurung, Bibhusan Basnet, and Chintan Rajbhandari
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Editing - Laps by Charlotte Wells and Blair McClendon

Source:[37][38]

2018[]

  • U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
  • U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by
  • U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
  • U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
  • U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as The Price of Free), directed by
  • U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by
  • U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: , directed by
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
  • World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by
  • World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Moller
  • World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
  • World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
  • World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This Is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
  • World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director and M.I.A.
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, and
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and
  • NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
  • NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize: , directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: , directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: , directed by Goran Stolevski
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by
  • Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by .
  • Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
  • Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by .
  • Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
  • Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian

2019[]

  • US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Clemency
  • US Dramatic Audience Award: Brittany Runs a Marathon
  • US Dramatic Directing: Joe Talbot for The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • US Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Pippa Bianco for Share
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft: Alma Har'el for Honey Boy
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Collaboration: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance: for Share
  • US Documentary Grand Jury Prize: One Child Nation
  • US Documentary Audience Award: Knock Down the House
  • US Documentary Directing: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for American Factory
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency: for
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: for Jawline
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: for Midnight Family
  • World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: The Souvenir
  • World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Queen of Hearts
  • World Cinema Dramatic Directing: for The Sharks
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Alejandro Landes for Monos
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Krystyna Janda for Dolce Fine Giornata
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality: for We Are Little Zombies
  • World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Honeyland
  • World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: Sea of Shadows
  • World Cinema Documentary Directing: Mads Brügger for Cold Case Hammarskjöld
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov for Honeyland
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: and for Honeyland
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Aziza, directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: , directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: , directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: Ghosts of Sugar Land, directed by Bassam Tariq
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation: , directed by
  • Special Jury Award: Directing: Alexandra Lazarowich for Fast Horse; for
  • NEXT Audience Award:
  • NEXT Innovator Award:
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Awards: & for Share; Sev Ohanian for
  • Sundance Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Talal Derki for Of Fathers and Sons; Chaitanya Tamhane and Tatiana Huezo for

Source:[39][40]

2020s[]

2020[]

  • US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Minari
  • US Dramatic Audience Award: Minari
  • US Dramatic Directing Award: Radha Blank for The 40-Year-Old Version
  • US Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Edson Oda for Nine Days
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of Charm City Kings
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award: Auteur Filmmaking – Josephine Decker for Shirley
  • US Dramatic Special Jury Award: Neo-Realism – Eliza Hittman for Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • US Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Boys State (Jesse Moss)
  • US Documentary Audience Award: Crip Camp (Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham)
  • US Documentary Directing: Garrett Bradley for Time
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Tyler H. Walk for Welcome to Chechnya
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling – Kirsten Johnson for Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker – Arthur Jones for Feels Good Man
  • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking – Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg for The Fight
  • World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness ()
  • World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez)
  • World Cinema Dramatic Directing: Maïmouna Doucouré for Cuties
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Ben Whishaw for Surge
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking – Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese for This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay – Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez for Identifying Features
  • World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Epicentro (Hubert Sauper)
  • World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: The Reason I Jump (Jerry Rothwell)
  • World Cinema Documentary Directing: Iryna Tsilyk for The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling – Benjamin Ree for The Painter and the Thief
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Radu Ciorniciuc and Mircea Topoleanu for Acasă, My Home
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Mila Aung-Thwin, Ryan Mullins and Sam Soko for Softie
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize: , directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: , directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: , directed by Dylan Holmes Williams
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, directed by
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation: , directed by
  • NEXT Audience Award: I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing)
  • NEXT Innovator Award: I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Tesla (Michael Almereyda)

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2021[]

  • U.S. Dramatic Competition – CODA (Siân Heder)
  • U.S. Documentary Competition – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
  • World Cinema Dramatic Competition – Hive (Blerta Basholli)
  • World Cinema Documentary Competition – Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
  • U.S. Dramatic Competition – CODA (Siân Heder)
  • U.S. Documentary Competition – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
  • World Cinema Dramatic Competition – Hive (Blerta Basholli)
  • World Cinema Documentary Competition – Writing With Fire (Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh)
  • NEXT – Ma Belle, My Beauty (Marion Hill)
  • U.S. Dramatic Competition – Siân Heder for CODA
  • U.S. Documentary Competition – Natalia Almada for Users
  • World Cinema Dramatic Competition – Blerta Basholli for Hive
  • World Cinema Documentary Competition – Hogir Hirori for Sabaya
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch for On the Count of Three
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno for Homeroom
  • NEXT Innovator Price - 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 - Meryman Joobeur for Motherhood

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