# 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 – The Secret Agent
* 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 – Chile: When Will It End?
* 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 – Beirut: The Last Home Movie
* 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 – Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
* 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 – John Huston
* 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 – Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
* Audience Award Dramatic – Longtime Companion
* Audience Award Documentary – Berkeley in the Sixties
* Special Jury Recognition – To Sleep with Anger
* Special Jury Recognition – Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia
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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 – Silverlake Life: The View from Here
* Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Fly by Night [fr]
* 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: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
* 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 – Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
* 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 – Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story
* 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 – Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
* 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 – Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
* 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 SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist / 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 – The Farm: Angola, USA (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 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
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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 – 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
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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 – 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
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### 2002

* Audience Award Documentary – Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
* 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 – Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
* Freedom of Expression Award – Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
* Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Daughter from Danang
* Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
* 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
* 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
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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 – 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
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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 – Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Patti Smith: Dream of Life
* 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 – The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
* 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 – Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
* 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 – 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
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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 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
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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 – Indie Game: The Movie
* 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 – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
* 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 – 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
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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 – Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
* 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 – Jim: The James Foley Story 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 Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
* 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 – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower 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, 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: 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)
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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 – 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
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### 2024

The following awards were given out:

### Grand Jury Prizes

* U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio)
* 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)

### 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

* U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
* 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

### 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