The following includes a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival.[1]
1980s
1984
Source:[2]
1985
Sources:[3][4]
1986
Source:[5]
1987
Source:[6]
1988
Source:[7]
1989
Source:[8]
1990s
1990
Source:[9]
1991
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
Source:[12]
1994
Source:[13]
1995
Source:[14]
1996
Sources:[15][16]
1997
Source:[17]
1998
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
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
Source:[27]
2007
Source:[28]
2008
Source:[29]
2009
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
Source:[31]
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
Source:[32]
2012
Source:[33]
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
Source:[34]
2014
Source:[35]
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
Source:[36][37]
2016
Source:[38]
2017
Source:[39][40]
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, 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
Source:[41][42]
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: Ship: A Visual Poem, 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)
Source:[43]
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
Source:[44]
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
Source:[45]
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
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
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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