List of Sundance Film Festival award winners

The following includes a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival.[1]

1980s

1984

Source:[2]

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 – America and Lewis Hine
  • 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:[3][4]

1986

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

Source:[5]

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

Source:[6]

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 – Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
  • 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:[7]

1989

Source:[8]

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 – Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
  • 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:[9]

1991

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

Source:[10]

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

Source:[11]

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 – Fly by Night [fr]
  • Audience Award Dramatic – El Mariachi
  • Audience Award Documentary – Something Within Me
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – An Ambush of Ghosts
  • 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 – Earth and the American Dream
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Denzel Washington

Source:[12]

1994

Source:[13]

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 Dramatic – Picture Bride
  • Audience Award Documentary – Ballot Measure 9 and Unzipped
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Living in Oblivion
  • Freedom of Expression Award – When Billy Broke His Head...and Other Tales of Wonder
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing – Jupiter's Wife
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing – Heavy
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing – Rhythm Thief
  • Special Jury Recognition – El héroe
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Eagles Don't Hunt Flies
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Strawberry and Chocolate
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Salesman and Other Adventures
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Tom's Flesh
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Nonnie & Alex
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Nicolas Cage

Source:[14]

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
  • Audience Award Documentary – Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Cutting Loose
  • 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 – Pig!
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Dry Mount
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Dianne Wiest

Sources:[15][16]

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 – Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – My America ...or Honk if You Love Buddha
  • 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 – Landscapes of Memory
  • Short Filmmaking Award – Man About Town
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Deep Crimson
  • Honorable Mention Latin American Cinema – Syphon Gun
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Birdhouse
  • Piper-Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision – Tim Robbins

Source:[17]

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 – Miss Monday
  • 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 – Out of the Past
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Snake Feed
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Human Remains
  • Piper-Heidseick Tribute to Independent Vision – Frances McDormand

Source:[18]

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 – 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 (tie)
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Guinevere (tie)
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Run Lola Run (tie)
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Train of Life (tie)
  • 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:[19]

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 Documentary – Dark Days
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Two Family House
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Americanos: Latino Life in The United States
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Dark Days
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Committed
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Saving Grace
  • Special Jury Prize for Artistic Achievement – The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
  • Special Jury Prize for Writing – George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
  • 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 – Five Feet High and Rising
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – G.
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – No One Writes to the Colonel
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Darling International
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Bats
  • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Kevin Spacey

Source:[20]

2001

  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Southern Comfort
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Believer
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Audience Award Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys & Scout's Honor
  • 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 – Possible Loves
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Sin Dejar Huella (English title Without a Trace)
  • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Coffin Joe - The Strange World Of José Mojica Marins
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Gina, An Actress, Age 29
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Delusions in Modern Primitivism
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Jigsaw Venus
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Metropopular
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Pie Fight '69
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Sweet
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Zen and the Art of Landscaping
  • Piper-Heidsieck Award – Julianne Moore

Source:[21][22]

2002

  • Audience Award Documentary – Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Real Women Have Curves
  • Directing Award Documentary – Sister Helen
  • 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 – Drowning Lessons
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Bus 44
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Morning Breath
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – The Trespasser
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Gasline
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Senorita Extraviada
  • 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:[23]

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

Source:[24]

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 – 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
  • 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 Documentary – The Corporation
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Seducing Doctor Lewis

Source:[25]

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 – One Weekend A Month
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Small Town Secrets
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Victoria Para Chino
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Tama Tu
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Family Portrait
  • 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 – Wall
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Forest For the Trees
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid

Source:[26]

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 for 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 – Before Dawn
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Undressing My Mother
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Bugcrush
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – The Wraith of Cobble Hill
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – The Natural Route
  • 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:[27]

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 – Hot House
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – L' Héritage (The Legacy)

Source:[28]

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 – Aquarium
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – August 15th
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – La Corona (The Crown)
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Oiran Lyrics
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spider
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Suspension
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – W.
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – My Olympic Summer
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Sikumi (On the Ice)
  • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking – Soft
  • 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 – Recycle
  • World Cinema Directing Award Documentary – Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
  • World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic – Mermaid (Rusalka)
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
  • 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:[29]

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 El General
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Adriano Goldman for Sin Nombre
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Bob Richman 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 – The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Jerrycan
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Western Spaghetti
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – I Live in the Woods
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Love You More
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Protect You + Me.
  • 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 – Nicholas Jasenovec 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 – John De Borman for An Education
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Havana Marking for Afghan Star
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros 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:[30]

2010s

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

  • 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

  • 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 – Love Free or Die
  • 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 – Can
  • 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 – The Debutante Hunters

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2013

  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Fruitvale (retitled Fruitvale Station)
  • 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 (retitled Fruitvale Station)
  • 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

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Whiplash
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Rich Hill
  • 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
  • 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
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Return to Homs
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – 20,000 Days on Earth
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award : Documentary – Happiness
  • World Cinema Editing Award: Documentary – 20,000 Days on Earth
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary – We Come as Friends
  • 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.
  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – I Origins

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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 – 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

  • 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 – Miles Joris-Peyrafitte 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 The Land of the Enlightened
  • 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 Matt Ruskin
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer 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 Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for The Force
  • U.S. Documentary Orwell Award - Icarus by Bryan Fogel
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista 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 Step
  • 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 Alfonso Maiorana for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva for Machines
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Ramona S. Diaz for Motherland
  • 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 Joe Piscatella
  • 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

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2018

2019

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2020s

2020

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2021

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – CODA (Siân Heder)
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Hive (Blerta Basholli)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
  • Audience Award: U.S.Dramatic – CODA (Siân Heder)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Hive (Blerta Basholli)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Writing with Fire (Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Ma Belle, My Beauty (Marion Hill)
  • 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

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu)
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Exiles (Ben Klein and Violet Columbus)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
  • Festival Favorite – Navalny (Daniel Roher)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Navalny (Daniel Roher)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Territory (Alex Pritz)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
  • 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

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell)
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Scrapper (Charlotte Regan)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi)
  • Festival Favorite – Radical (Christopher Zalla)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Persian Version (Maryam Keshavarz)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Beyond Utopia (Madeleine Gavin)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Shayda (Noora Niasari)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Kokomo City (D. Smith)
  • 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 – Lio 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

Source:[46]

2024

The following awards were given out:[47]

Grand Jury Prizes

  • U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza)
  • U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev)
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez)
  • World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness (Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó)
  • Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos)

Audience Awards

  • Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
  • U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)
  • U.S. Documentary – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
  • World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
  • NEXT – Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)

Directing, Screenwriting and Editing

  • U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
  • U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
  • World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for FRIDA
  • NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death

Special Jury Prizes

  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union (Stephen Maing and Brett Story)
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes
  • NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines
  • Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming
  • Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love

Short Film Jury Awards

  • U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die (Kate Jean Hollowell)
  • International Fiction: The Stag (An Chu)
  • Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral (Jack Dunphy)
  • Animation: Bug Diner (Phoebe Jane Hart)

Sundance Institute Awards

  • NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die
  • Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin
  • Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani
  • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions
  • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Love Me

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