Audience Award Dramatic

This is a list of winners of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for dramatic features.

Winners

1980s

• 1989: Sex, Lies, and Videotape

1990s

• 1990: Longtime Companion
• 1991: One Cup of Coffee
• 1992: The Waterdance
• 1993: El Mariachi
• 1994: Spanking the Monkey
• 1995: Picture Bride
• 1996: The Spitfire Grill
• 1997: Hurricane Streets / Love Jones
• 1998: Smoke Signals
• 1999: Three Seasons

2000s

• 2000: Two Family House
• 2001: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• 2002: Real Women Have Curves
• 2003: The Station Agent
• 2004: Maria Full of Grace
• 2005: Hustle & Flow
• 2006: Quinceañera
• 2007: Grace Is Gone
• 2008: The Wackness
• 2009: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

2010s

• 2010: Happythankyoumoreplease
• 2011: Circumstance
• 2012: The Sessions
• 2013: Fruitvale Station
• 2014: Whiplash
• 2015: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
• 2016: The Birth of a Nation
• 2017: Crown Heights
• 2018: Burden
• 2019: Brittany Runs a Marathon

2020s

• 2020: Minari
• 2021: CODA
• 2022: Cha Cha Real Smooth
• 2023: The Persian Version
• 2024: Dìdi (弟弟)
• 2025: Twinless
• 2026: Josephine

International winners

• 1999: Run Lola Run / Train of Life
• 2000: Saving Grace
• 2001: The Road Home
• 2002: Bloody Sunday / The Last Kiss
• 2003: Whale Rider
• 2004: Seducing Doctor Lewis
• 2005: Brothers
• 2006: No. 2
• 2007: Once
• 2008: Captain Abu Raed
• 2009: An Education
• 2010: Undertow
• 2011: Kinyarwanda
• 2012: Valley of Saints
• 2013: Metro Manila
• 2014: To Kill a Man
• 2015: Umrika
• 2016: Between Sea and Land
• 2017: I Dream in Another Language
• 2018: The Guilty
• 2019: Queen of Hearts
• 2020: Identifying Features
• 2021: Hive
• 2022: Girl Picture
• 2023: Shayda
• 2024: Girls Will Be Girls
• 2025: DJ Ahmet
• 2026: HOLD ONTO ME

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