List of Sundance Film Festival award winners

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This is a partial list of films that won awards at the Sundance Film Festival.


Contents

1982 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008

[edit] 1982

[edit] 1985

List at sundance.org of award winners: [1]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blood Simple
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Seventeen - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Almost You - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Killing Floor - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Stranger Than Paradise
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - America and Lewis Hine - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - In Heaven There Is No Beer? - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Kaddish - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Streetwise - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - The Times of Harvey Milk

[edit] 1986

17 January - 26 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [2]

[edit] 1987

List at sundance.org of award winners: [3]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Waiting for the Moon
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Trouble with Dick - IMDb
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Sherman's March
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - No Picnic - IMDb
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Chile: When Will It End? - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Working Girls - IMDb
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Chile: When Will It End?
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality: Dramatic - Sullivan's Pavilion - IMDb

[edit] 1988

15 January - 24 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [4]

[edit] 1989

20 January - 29 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [5]

[edit] 1990

19 January - 27 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [6]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Chameleon Street - IMDb
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - H-2 Worker - IMDb
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Water and Power - IMDb
  • Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Houseparty
  • Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman - IMDb
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - Longtime Companion
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Berkeley in the Sixties - IMDb
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Houseparty
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - H-2 Worker
  • Special Jury Recognition: Dramatic - To Sleep With Anger
  • Special Jury Recognition: Documentary - Samsara: Death And Rebirth In Cambodia - IMDb

[edit] 1991

List at sundance.org of award winners: [7]

  • 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

[edit] 1992

19 January - 27 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [8]

  • 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
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - The Waterdance
  • Special Jury Recognition - The Hours and Times
  • Special Jury Recognition - My Crazy Life
  • Special Jury Recognition - Seymour Cassel for his performance in In the Soup

[edit] 1993

List at sundance.org of award winners: [9]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Ruby in Paradise and Public Access
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Children of Fate
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Silverlake Life: The View From Here
  • Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Fly By Night
  • Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Something Within Me
  • 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 - Children of Fate
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Combination Platter
  • Freedom of Expression Award - Silverlake Life: The View From Here
  • Special Jury Prize for a First Feature - Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
  • Special Jury Prize for Distinction - Lillian
  • Special Jury Prize for Superb Technical Achievement - Earth and the American Dream
  • Special Jury Prize for Merit - Something Within Me

[edit] 1994

List at sundance.org of award winners: [10]

[edit] 1995

19 January - 29 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [11]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Brothers McMullen
  • 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
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Unzipped
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Angela
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Crumb
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Living in Oblivion
  • Freedom of Expression Award - When Billy Broke His Head...and Other Tales of Wonder
  • Special Jury Recognition - Jupiter's Wife
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Heavy
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Rhythm Thief
  • Special Recognition in Latin Cinema Award - Eagles Don't Hunt Flies
  • Special Mention - Strawberry and Chocolate
  • Special Recognition in Short Filmmaking Award - The Salesman and Other Adventures
  • Special Recognition in Short Filmmaking Award - Tom's Flesh
  • Honorable Mentions - Trevor
  • Honorable Mentions - Nonnie and Alex

[edit] 1996

18 January - 28 January

List at sundance.org of award winners: [12]

[edit] 1997

16 January - 26 January

List at sundancechannel.com of award winners: [13]

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Girls Like Us
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Sunday
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - Hurricane
  • Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Licensed to Kill
  • Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - In the Company of Men
  • Directing Award: Documentary - Licensed to Kill
  • Directing Award: Dramatic - Hurricane
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sunday
  • 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
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Hurricane
  • Special Jury: Documentary - Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
  • Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance - The House of Yes
  • Short Filmmakers Award: Honorable Mention - Going All the Way
  • Latin American Cinema Award - Landscapes of Memory
  • Latin American Cinema Award: Honorable Mention - Deep Crimson
  • Short Filmmaking Award - Man About Town
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Birdhouse
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Syphon Gun

[edit] 1998

15 January - 25 January

A list of the winners can be found here

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Slam

[edit] 1999

21 January - 31 January

A list of the winners can be found here

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - American Movie
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Three Seasons
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Genghis Blues
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - Three Seasons
  • Documentary Directing Award - Barbara Sonneborn for Regret to Inform
  • Dramatic Directing Award - Eric Mendelsohn for Judy Berlin
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Emiko Omori for Rabbit in the Moon and Regret to Inform
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Lisa Rinzler for Three Seasons
  • Freedom of Expression Award - The Black Press: Soldiers Without Words
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Frank Whaley for Joe the King
  • Audience Award World Cinema - Run Lola Run and Train of Life

[edit] 2000

A list of the winners can be found here.

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Long Night's Journey Into Day
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Girlfight and You Can Count on Me
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Dark Days
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - Two Family House
  • Documentary Directing Award - Paragraph 175
  • Dramatic Directing Award - Girlfight
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Americano's: Latino Life in The United States
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Committed
  • Freedom of Expression Award - Dark Days
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Kenneth Lonegran for You Can Count on Me
  • Audience Award World Cinema - Saving Grace
  • Special Jury Prize - The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
  • Special Jury Prize - George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
  • Special Jury Prize - The Tao of Steve
  • Special Jury Prize - Songcatcher
  • Special Jury Prize in Latin American Cinema - Herod's Law
  • Special Jury Prize in Latin American Cinema - No One Writes to the Colonel
  • Short Filmmaking Award - Five Feet High and Rising
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - The Bats
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Darling International
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - The Drowning Room
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Friday
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Hitch
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Ice Fishing
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - This is for Betsy Hall
  • Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Titler

[edit] 2001

18 January - 28 January

The official announcement of the 2001 winners can be found here.

[edit] 2002

10 January - 20 January

A list of the winners can be found here


[edit] 2004

15 January - 25 January

The official announcement of the 2004 winners can be found here.

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - DiG!
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Primer
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Born into Brothels
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - Maria Full of Grace
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - The Corporation
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Seducing Doctor Lewis
  • Documentary Directing Award - Morgan Spurlock director of Super Size Me
  • Dramatic Directing Award - Debra Granik for Down to the Bone
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Imelda
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - November
  • Freedom of Expression Award - Repatriation
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Larry Gross for We Don't Live Here Anymore
  • Special Jury Prize - Farmingville
  • Special Jury Prize - Brother to Brother
  • Special Jury Prize - Vera Farmiga for her performance in Down to the Bone
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - When the Storm Came
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Gowanus, Brooklyn
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Tomo
  • 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
  • Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award (Animation) - Bathtime in Clerkenwell
  • Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award (Short Subject) - Wet Dreams False Images
  • Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award (New Forms Gallery) - The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Texas Upgringing
  • 2004 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Primer

[edit] 2005

20 January - 30 January

The official announcement of the 2005 winners can be found here.

[edit] 2006

19 January - 29 January

The official announcement of the 2006 winners can be found here.

[edit] 2007

18 January - 28 January

A list of the 2007 winners can be found here.

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Padre Nuestro
  • Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - Adama Meshuga'at (Sweet Mud)
  • Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Vores lykkes fjender (Enemies of Happiness)
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Hear and Now
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - Grace is Gone
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - In the Shadow of the Moon
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Once
  • Documentary Directing Award - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance
  • Dramatic Directing Award - Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Heloisa Passos for Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Benoit Debie for Joshua
  • Documentary Film Editing - Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for Nanking
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - James C. Strouse for Grace Is Gone
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic Performance - Jess Weixler in Teeth and Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Chris Smith, director of The Pool
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - No End in Sight
  • Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - L' Héritage (The Legacy)
  • Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Hot House
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Everything Will Be OK
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Tube With a Hat
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Death to the Tinman, The Fighting Cholitas, Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand), Motodrom, Spitfire 944, t.o.m.
  • Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Freeheld
  • 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Dark Matter

[edit] 2008

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Trouble the Water[2]
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Frozen River[2]
  • Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Man On Wire[2]
  • Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)[2]
  • Audience Award: Documentary - Fields of Fuel[2]
  • Audience Award: Dramatic - The Wackness[2]
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Man on Wire[2]
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Captain Abu Raed[2]
  • Directing Award: Documentary - American Teen[2]
  • Directing Award: Dramatic - Ballast[2]
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)[2]
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Mermaid (Rusalka)[2]
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sleep Dealer[2]
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award - I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J'ai Toujours Rêvé d'Être un Gangster)[2]
  • Documentary Editing Award - Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired[2]
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins[2]
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Patti Smith: Dream of Life[2]
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Ballast[2]
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Recycle[2]
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)[2]
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)[2]
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary - The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo[2]
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence - Anywhere, USA[2]
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast - Choke[2]
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - My Olympic Summer[2]
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Sikumi (On the Ice)[2]
  • International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Soft[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Aquarium[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - August 15th[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - La Corona (The Crown)[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Oiran Lyrics[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Spider[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Suspension[2]
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - W.[2]
  • 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Sleep Dealer[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ allmove entry for Circle of Power.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah 2008 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards (2008-01-26).
  3. ^ Sleep Dealer Wins Alfred P. Sloan Prize at 2008 Sundance Film Festival (2008-01-25).
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