Friday marks the end of the second year of virtual festival Sundance Film Festival, which announced the Best of the Fest award winners.
Over 80 feature films played at this year’s Sundance, as well as six indie episodic projects, 15 New Frontier projects and 59 short films that drew from the festival’s largest submission pool ever.
Last year, both “CODA” “Summer of Soul”Sundance won the top prizes with the winning of both the Grand Jury Prizes in each category and the audience award. This was the third consecutive year that both a drama film and a documentary won the top jury and audience awards. It was also the first time that the top three categories of awards were won by two films. “CODA” “Hive”The Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award were won, as well as the Directing Award.
“This year’s entire program has proven that no matter the context, independent storytelling remains a pivotal tool in expanding critical dialogues, and these stories will and must be shared,”Joana Vicente is the CEO of Sundance Institute Introducing the awards ceremony.
“This year’s festival expressed a powerful convergence; we were present, together, as a community connected through the work. And it is work that has already changed those who experienced it,”Tabitha Jackson, festival director Additional.
This year’s jurors were: Chelsea Barnard, Marielle Heller, and Payman Maadi for U.S. Dramatic Competition: Garrett Bradley, Joan Churchill and Peter Nicks for U.S. Documentary Competition; Andrew Haigh, Mohamed Hefzy, and La Frances Hui for World Cinema Dramatic Competition;and Emilie Bujès, Patrick Gaspard, and Dawn Porter for World Cinema Documentary Competition. Joey Soloway was a juror in the NEXT competition section. The Short Film Program Competition was juried by Penelope Bartlett and Kevin Jerome Everson.
This year’s festival has seen some healthy sales for a variety of titles, including Apple’s reported $15 million acquisition of Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth”Other 7-figure deals on the documentary “Fire of Love,” Riley Stearns’ “Dual”And the Rebecca Hall thriller “Resurrection,”The Bill Nighy drama “Living”Emma Thompson comedy “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.”
Below is the full list of award winners, which we’ll update live as they come in. For certain awards, you can find links to video introductions, statements from jurors, as well as acceptance speeches. Sundance’s Twitter.
U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic:
U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary:
Directing Award – U.S. Dramatic:
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award:
Directing Award – U.S. Documentary:
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – U.S. Documentary:
U.S. U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award For Best Ensemble:
U.S. U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award, best actor:
U.S. U.S.:
U.S. U.S.:
Audience Award, U.S. Dramatic:
Audience Award, U.S. Documentary:
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic:
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary:
World Cinematic Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic:
World Cinematic Dramatic Award for Directing:
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision:
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting:
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary:
World Cinema Documentary Awards: Directing Award:
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change:
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Verité Filmmaking:
The NEXT Innovator Award: “Framing Agnes,” Chase Joynt director
The NEXT Audience Award:
Short Film Grand Jury Prize: “The Headhunter’s Daughter”
Short Film Jury Prize: Fiction from the U.S.: Walter Thompson-Hernández, “If I Go Will They Miss Me”
Short Film Jury Prize: International Fiction: Danai Bdeir, “Warsha”
Short Film Jury Prize: NonfictionSamir Karahoda “Displaced”
Short Film Special Jury Prize: Ensemble Cast: Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro, and Lorre Motta for “A wild patience has taken me here”
Short Film Special Jury Award: Filmwriting: Sara Driver, “Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver”
Short Film Animation Special Jury Award: Joe Hsieh, “Night Bus”
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize: “After Yang,”Sundance Institute awarded the filmmakers a $20,000 cash prize with support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award in Editing FictionDody Dorn
Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award in Editing NonfictionToby Shimin
Sundance Institute Amazon Studios Producers Award Fiction:Amanda Marshall “God’s Country”
Sundance Institute Amazon Studios Producers Award NonfictionSu Kim “Free Chol Soo Lee” (U.S. Documentary Competition
Sundance Institute NHK Award: “The President’s Cake”
Gayle Stevens Volunteer AwardBrenda “BJ” Berliner
More to come…