List of Sundance Film Festival award winners

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

1980s

1984

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Old Enough
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Style Wars
• Honorable Mention Documentary – Seeing Red
• Honorable Mention Documentary – The Good Fight (The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War)
• 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 – Hero

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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 Dramatic - The Brother from Another Planet
• Special Jury Recognition Documentary – In Heaven There Is No Beer?

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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

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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 – '
• Special Jury Recognition – Working Girls
• Special Jury Recognition – River's Edge
• Special Jury Prize Documentary – Chile: When Will It End?
• Special Jury Prize for Originality – Sullivan's Pavilion

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1988

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Heat and Sunlight
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – '
• 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 – '
• Special Jury Prize for Acting – Viveca Lindfors in Rachel River
• Special Jury Recognition – The Brave Little Toaster

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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 – The Roommate

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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 – '

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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

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1992

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

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1993

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Ruby in Paradise
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Public Access
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – '
• Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – '
• 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 – '
• 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

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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 – '
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – What Happened Was...
• Audience Award Dramatic – Spanking the Monkey
• 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 – Heart of the Matter
• 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

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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

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1996

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Welcome to the Dollhouse
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – '
• 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

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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 – '
• 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 ' / 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

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1998

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Slam
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Frat House (tie)
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – ' (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

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1999

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Three Seasons
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Movie
• Audience Award Documentary – Genghis Blues
• Audience Award Dramatic – Three Seasons
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Three Seasons
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Rabbit in the Moon
• Directing Award Dramatic – Judy Berlin
• Directing Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
• Freedom of Expression Award – '
• 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 – '
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Stubble Trouble
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Come unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – A Pack of Gifts, Now
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Atomic Tabasco
• Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Devil Doll/Ring Pull
• Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Little Saints
• Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – More
• Special Jury Prize – On the Ropes
• Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Life is to Whistle
• Special Jury Prize for Acting – Happy, Texas
• Special Jury Prize for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking – Treasure Island
• Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Laura Dern

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2000s

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 – '
• 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 – '
• 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

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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 – '
• 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

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2002

• Audience Award Documentary – '
• 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 – '
• Freedom of Expression Award – Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Daughter from Danang
• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – '
• 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

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2003

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

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2004

• 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 by Erez Tadmor
• Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Drum Machine
• Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking – Wet Dreams and False Images
• Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bathtime in Clerkenwell
• Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms – '
• 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

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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 – '
• 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

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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

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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)

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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 – '
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – '
• 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 – '
• 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 – '
• 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)

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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

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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 – '
• 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 '
• 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 '
• 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 – '
• 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 – '
• 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 – '
• 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 – '
• 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 – '

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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 – '
• 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 – ' 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 '
• 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 – ' 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

• U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
• U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
• U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
• U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
• 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 Derek Doneen
• U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence<u>,</u> directed by Rudy Valdez
• U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
• 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 Tolga Karacelik
• 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 Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
• NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
• NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
• Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
• Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
• Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
• Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis.
• 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 Prayers for the Stolen, directed by Tatiana Huezo
• Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes.
• 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: Rhianne Barreto 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: Jacqueline Olive for Always in Season
• US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Liza Mandelup for Jawline
• US Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Luke Lorentzen for Midnight Family
• World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: The Souvenir
• World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Queen of Hearts
• World Cinema Dramatic Directing: Lucía Garibaldi 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: Makoto Nagahisa 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: Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma for Honeyland
• Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Aziza, directed by Soudade Kaadan
• Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Green, directed by Susan Andrews Correa
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Dunya's Day, directed by Raed Alsemari
• Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: Ghosts of Sugar Land, directed by Bassam Tariq
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Reneepoptosis, directed by Renee Zhan
• Special Jury Award: Directing: Alexandra Lazarowich for Fast Horse; Robert Machoian for The Minors
• NEXT Audience Award: The Infiltrators
• NEXT Innovator Award: The Infiltrators
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
• Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Awards: Carly Hugo & Matt Parker for Share; Sev Ohanian for Lori Cheatle
• Sundance Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Talal Derki for Of Fathers and Sons; Chaitanya Tamhane and Tatiana Huezo for Prayers for the Stolen

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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 (Massoud Bakhshi)
• 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: So What if the Goats Die, directed by Sofia Alaoui
• Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: ', directed by Terrence Daye
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: The Devil’s Harmony, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams
• Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, directed by Matthew Kilip
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Daughter, directed by Daria Kashcheeva
• 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. 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 – ' (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 – Lío Mehiel for Mutt
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision – The Stroll
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression – Bad Press
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Fantastic Machine
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Against the Tide
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Sofia Alaoui for Animalia
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematography – Lílis Soares for Mami Wata
• Short Film Grand Jury Prize – When You Left Me On That Boulevard
• Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Rest Stop
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Kidnapping of the Bride
• Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Will You Look At Me
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation – The Flying Sailor
• Short Film Special Jury Award, International: Directing – AliEN0089
• Short Film Special Jury Award, U.S.: Directing – The Vacation
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Pod Generation
• Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Jess Devaney for It’s Only Life After All
• Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Kara Durrett for The Starling Girl
• Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Mary Manhardt
• Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Troy Takaki
• Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Olive Nwosu for Lady

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2024

The following awards were given out:

• Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio)
• Grand Jury Prize: 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 (Silje Evensmo Jacobsen)
• Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos)
• Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
• Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)
• Audience Award: 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 Award: U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
• Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
• World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
• World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
• Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for FRIDA
• NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of 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
• 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)
• 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

2025

• U.S. Dramatic – Atropia by Hailey Gates
• U.S. Documentary – Seeds by Brittany Shyne
• World Cinema Dramatic – Cactus Pears by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
• World Cinema Documentary – Cutting Through Rocks by ,
• Short Film – The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos
• U.S. Dramatic – Twinless by James Sweeney
• U.S. Documentary – André Is an Idiot by Tony Benna
• World Cinema Dramatic – DJ Ahmet by Georgi M. Unkovski
• World Cinema Documentary – Prime Minister by Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz
• NEXT – East of Wall by
• Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Rashad Frett for Ricky
• Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Geeta Gandbhir for The Perfect Neighbor
• World Cinema Dramatic – Alireza Khatami for The Things You Kill
• Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Mstyslav Chernov for 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby
• Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Parker Laramie for André is an Idiot
• NEXT Innovator Prize – Zodiac Killer Project by Charlie Shackleton
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of Plainclothes
• US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Dylan O’Brien for Twinless
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award – Life After by Reid Davenport
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling – Selena y Los Dinos by Isabel Castro
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award – Mr. Nobody Against Putin by David Borenstein
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression – Coexistence, My Ass! by Amber Fares
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Georgi M. Unkovski for DJ Ahmet
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Writing – Two Women by Chloé Robichaud and Catherine Léger
• Next: Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) by Joel Alfonso Vargas
• U.S. Fiction – Trokas Duras by Jazmin Garcia
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing Loren Waters – for Tiger
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Animation Directing – May Kindred-Boothby for The Eating of an Orange
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Natalia León for Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado
• Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Christopher Radcliff for We Were the Scenery
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Chheangkea for Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
• Festival Favorite Award: Come See Me in the Good Light by Ryan White

2026

The following awards were given out:

• Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – Josephine (Beth de Araújo)
• Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary – Nuisance Bear (Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman)
• World Cinema Dramatic – Shame and Money (Visar Morina)
• World Cinema Documentary – To Hold a Mountain (Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić)
• NEXT Innovator Award – The Incomer (Louis Paxton)
• Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Josephine (Beth de Araújo)
• Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – ' (David Alvarado)
• Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με) (Myrsini Aristidou)
• Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – One In A Million (Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes)
• Audience Award: NEXT – Aanikoobijigan (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil)
• Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Josef Kubota Wladyka for Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!
• Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – J.M. Harper for Soul Patrol
• World Cinema Dramatic – Andrius Blaževičius for How to Divorce During the War
• World Cinema Documentary – Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes for One In A Million
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Liz Sargent for Take Me Home
• Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Matt Hixon for Barbara Forever
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature – Bedford Park (Stephanie Ahn)
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The Friend’s House is Here
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence – Who Killed Alex Odeh?
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change – The Lake
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Filipiñana (Rafael Manuel)
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble – LADY (Olive Nwosu)
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact – Birds of War
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance – Everybody To Kenmure Street
• NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression – TheyDream (William David Caballero)
• Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Baddest Speechwriter of All (Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry)
• Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Crisis Actor (Lily Platt)
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Jazz Infernal (Will Niava)
• Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – The Boys and the Bees (Arielle C. Knight)
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Living with a Visionary (Stephen P. Neary)
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Noah Roja and Filippo Carrozza for The Liars
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – In The Blink of An Eye (Andrew Stanton)
• Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Apoorva Guru Charan (Take Me Home)
• Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Dawne Langford (Who Killed Alex Odeh?)
• Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction – Mollie Goldstein
• Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction – Flavia de Souza
• NHK Award – Leo Aguirre (Verano)

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