The 2003 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16 to January 26, 2003.
Background
American Splendor, a biopic of comic-book author Harvey Pekar, won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize while Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about David Friedman and his family's dark secret, won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize. Other prize-winning films included The Station Agent and Thirteen. Steve Zahn and Maggie Gyllenhaal presented the awards in a ceremony televised live on the Sundance Channel.
Unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them musician Bob Dylan.
Films
Awards
- Grand Jury Prize: Documentary â Capturing the Friedmans
- Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic â American Splendor
- Audience Award: Documentary â My Flesh and Blood
- Audience Award: Dramatic â The Station Agent
- Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth â All the Real Girls
- Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth â What Alice Found
- Special Jury Prize for Performance â Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent; Pieces of April; All the Real Girls
- Special Jury Prize for Performance â Charles Busch, Die, Mommie, Die!
- Documentary Directing Award â Jonathan Karsh, My Flesh and Blood
- Dramatic Directing Award â Catherine Hardwicke, Thirteen
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic â Tom McCarthy, The Station Agent
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary â Dana Kupper, Gordon Quinn, and Peter Gilbert, Stevie
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic â Quattro Noza
- The Freedom of Expression Award went to What I Want My Words to Do to You
- Special Jury Prize for Documentary â The Murder of Emmett Till
- Special Jury Prize for Documentary â A Certain Kind of Death
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