List of Sundance Film Festival award winners

===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 Source: ===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? Sources: ===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 Source: ===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'' Source: ===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 Source: ===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 Source: ==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 Source: ===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 Source: ===1992=== • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – In the Soup • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – A Brief History of Time • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Finding Christa • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Zebrahead • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – A Brief History of Time • Audience Award Dramatic – The Waterdance • Audience Award Documentary – ''Brother's Keeper'' • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Swoon • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Shoot for the Contents • Special Jury Recognition – The Hours and Times • Special Jury Recognition – My Crasy Life • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Seymour Cassel for his performance in In the Soup • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Waterdance • Piper-Heidseick Award for Independent Vision – John Turturro Source: ===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 – '''' • 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 Source: ===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 Source: ===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 Source: ===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 Sources: ===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 Source: ===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 Source: ===1999=== • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Three Seasons • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Movie • Audience Award Documentary – Genghis Blues • Audience Award Dramatic – Three Seasons • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Three Seasons • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Regret to Inform • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Rabbit in the Moon • Directing Award Dramatic – Judy Berlin • Directing Award Documentary – Regret to Inform • Freedom of Expression Award – The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Joe the King (tie) • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Guinevere (tie) • World Cinema Audience Award – Run Lola Run (tie) • World Cinema Audience Award – Train of Life (tie) • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Tumbleweeds • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – ''Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle'' • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Stubble Trouble • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Come unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – A Pack of Gifts, Now • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Atomic Tabasco • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Devil Doll/Ring Pull • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Little Saints • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – More • Special Jury Prize – On the Ropes • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Life is to Whistle • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Happy, Texas • Special Jury Prize for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking – Treasure Island • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Laura Dern Source: ==2000s==

===2000=== • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – ''Long Night's Journey into Day'' • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Girlfight & You Can Count on Me (tie) • Directing Award Dramatic – Girlfight • Directing Award Documentary – Paragraph 175 • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – You Can Count on Me • Freedom of Expression Award – Dark Days • Audience Award Documentary – Dark Days • Audience Award Dramatic – Two Family House • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Americanos: Latino Life in The United States • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Dark Days • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Committed • World Cinema Audience Award – Saving Grace • Special Jury Prize for Artistic Achievement – ''The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack'' • Special Jury Prize for Writing – ''George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire'' • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – The Tao of Steve • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – Songcatcher • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – ''Herod's Law'' • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Five Feet High and Rising • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – G. • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – No One Writes to the Colonel • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Darling International • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Bats • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Kevin Spacey Source: ===2001=== • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Southern Comfort • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Believer • Audience Award Dramatic – Hedwig and the Angry Inch • Audience Award Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys & ''Scout's Honor'' • Directing Award Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys • Directing Award Dramatic – Hedwig and the Angry Inch • Freedom of Expression Award – ''Scout's Honor'' • World Cinema Audience Award – The Road Home • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – ''LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton'' • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – The Deep End • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Memento • Special Jury Prize for Acting – In the Bedroom • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Children Underground • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Possible Loves • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Sin Dejar Huella (English title Without a Trace) • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Coffin Joe - The Strange World Of José Mojica Marins • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Gina, An Actress, Age 29 • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Delusions in Modern Primitivism • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Jigsaw Venus • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Metropopular • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – ''Pie Fight '69'' • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Sweet • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Zen and the Art of Landscaping • Piper-Heidsieck Award – Julianne Moore Source: ===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 Source: ===2003=== • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Dopamine • Audience Award Documentary – My Flesh and Blood • Audience Award Dramatic – The Station Agent • Directing Award Dramatic – thirteen • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Stevie • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Quattro Noza • Freedom of Expression Award – What I Want My Words to Do to You • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Capturing the Friedmans • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – American Splendor • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Ocularist • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Planets • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Pan with Us • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Freak • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Asylum • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Fits & Starts • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Earthquake • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – From the 104th Floor • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Terminal Bar • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – One • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Broken Saints • Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking – S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse • Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – LOR • Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Icarus of Pittsburgh • Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bumble Beeing • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Station Agent • World Cinema Audience Award – Whale Rider Source: ===2004=== • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Primer • Audience Award Documentary – Born into Brothels • Audience Award Dramatic – Maria Full of Grace • Directing Award Documentary – Super Size Me • Directing Award Dramatic – Down to the Bone • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Imelda • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – November • Freedom of Expression Award – Repatriation • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Dig! • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Primer • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Curtis • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Harvie Krumpet • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Krumped • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Papillon D’Amour • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spokane • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – When the Storm Came • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Gowanus, Brooklyn • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Tomo • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Strangers by Erez Tadmor • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Drum Machine • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking – Wet Dreams and False Images • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bathtime in Clerkenwell • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms – The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Texas Upgringing • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Farmingville • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Brother to Brother • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Vera Farmiga for her performance in Down to the Bone • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Larry Gross for ''We Don't Live Here Anymore'' • World Cinema Audience Award Documentary – The Corporation • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Seducing Doctor Lewis Source: ===2005=== • Special Jury Prize for Editing – Murderball • Audience Award Documentary – Murderball • Audience Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow • Directing Award Documentary – Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston • Directing Award Dramatic – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Education of Shelby Knox • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Why We Fight • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Forty Shades of Blue • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – One Weekend A Month • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Small Town Secrets • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Victoria Para Chino • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Tama Tu • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Family Portrait • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Wasp • Special Jury Prize Documentary – After Innocence • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Amy Adams in Junebug • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker • Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know • Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Rian Johnson director of Brick • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Shape of the Moon • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Hero • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Brothers • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Liberace of Baghdad • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Wall • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Forest For the Trees • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid Source: ===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 Source: ===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)'' Source: ===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) Source: ===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 Source: ==2010s==

===2010=== • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Obselidia • Audience Award: Dramatic – happythankyoumoreplease • Audience Award: Documentary – Waiting for "Superman" • Best of NEXT – Homewrecker (2010 film) • Directing Award Documentary – Smash His Camera • Directing Award Dramatic – 3 Backyards • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Obselidia • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Oath • Editing Award Documentary – Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Restrepo • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – ''Winter's Bone'' • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Born Sweet • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Can We Talk? • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – How I Met Your Father • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Quadrangle • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Rob and Valentyna in Scotland • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Young Love • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking – The Six Dollar Fifty Man • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Gasland • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Sympathy for Delicious • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – ''Winter's Bone'' • World Cinema Audience Award Documentary – Waste Land • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Undertow • World Cinema Cinematography Award Documentary – His & Hers • World Cinema Cinematography Award Dramatic – The Man Next Door • World Cinema Directing Award Documentary – Space Tourists • World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic – Southern District • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – A Film Unfinished • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – The Red Chapel (Det Røde Kapel) • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – Animal Kingdom • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Southern District • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Enemies of the People • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting – Grown Up Movie Star Source: ===2011=== • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – How to Die in Oregon • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Like Crazy • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Hell and Back Again • World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic – Happy, Happy • Audience Award: Documentary – Buck • Audience Award: Dramatic – Circumstance • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Senna • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Kinyarwanda • Best of NEXT Audience Award – to.get.her • Directing Award: Documentary – Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles • Directing Award: Dramatic – Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – James Marsh for Project Nim • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sam Levinson for Another Happy Day • World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award – Erez Kav-El for Restoration • Documentary Editing Award – Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Curry for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist for The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Eric Strauss, Ryan Hill and Peter Hutchens for The Redemption of General Butt Naked • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Bradford Young for Pariah • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Danfung Dennis for Hell and Back Again • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Diego F. Jimenez for All Your Dead Ones • World Dramatic Special Jury Prizes for Breakout Performances – Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize – Position Among the Stars • Documentary Special Jury Prize – ''Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey'' • Dramatic Special Jury Prize – Another Earth • Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance – Felicity Jones for Like Crazy • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Brick Novax Pt 1 and 2 • International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Deeper Than Yesterday • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Choke • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Diarchy • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – The External World • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – The Legend of Beaver Dam • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Out of Reach • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Protoparticles • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Another Earth • Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Bogdan Mustata of Romania for Wolf, Ernesto Contrera of Mexico for I Dream In Another Language, Seng Tat Liew of Malaysia for In What City Does It Live?, and Talya Lavie of Israel for Zero Motivation • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer Source: ===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 Source: ===2013=== • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Fruitvale (retitled Fruitvale Station) • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Blood Brother • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Jiseul • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – A River Changes Course • Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura – Fruitvale (retitled Fruitvale Station) • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura – Blood Brother • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Metro Manila • Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary – The Square • Audience Award: Best of NEXT – This Is Martin Bonner • Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic – Afternoon Delight • Directing Award: U. S. Documentary – Cutie and the Boxer • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Crystal Fairy • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear • Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic – ''Ain't Them Bodies Saints'' • Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic – Mother of George • Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary – Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield • Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Lasting • Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary – Who Is Dayani Cristal? • U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking – Inequality for All • U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking – American Promise • U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now • U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design – Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, Upstream Color • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award – Circles • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit – Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer • Editing Award: U. S. Documentary – ''Gideon's Army'' • Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Summit • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – In a World... • Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Wajma (An Afghan Love Story) • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Computer Chess • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Whistle • Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – Whiplash • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Date • Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – Skinningrove • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Irish Folk Furniture • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Joel Nagle, Palimpsest • Short Film Special Jury Award – Kahlil Joseph, Until the Quiet Comes • Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube – Catnip: Egress to Oblivion Source: ===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 Source: ===2015=== • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon • Directing Award: Dramatic – Robert Eggers for The Witch • Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Brandon Trost for The Diary of a Teenage Girl • Editing Award: Dramatic – Lee Haugen for Dope • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Tim Talbott for The Stanford Prison Experiment • Special Jury Prize for Collaborative Vision: Dramatic – Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim for Advantageous • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Wolfpack by Crystal Moselle • Directing Award: Documentary – Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land • Cinematography Award: Documentary – Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll for Cartel Land • Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature: Documentary – Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe for (T)error • Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – Western by Bill and Turner Ross • Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – 3½ Minutes by Marc Silver • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West by John Maclean • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Alantė Kavaitė for The Summer of Sangailé • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Germain McMicking for Partisan • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic – Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic – Jack Reynor for Glassland • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Russian Woodpecker by Chad Gracia • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Kim Longinotto for Dreamcatcher • World Cinema Editing Award: Documentary – Jim Scott for How to Change the World • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Impact: Documentary – Pervert Park by Frida and Lasse Barkfors • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Unparalleled Access: Documentary – The Chinese Mayor by Hao Zhou • Audience Award: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon • Audience Award: Documentary – Meru by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Umrika by Prashant Nair • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Dark Horse by Louise Osmond • Best of NEXT Audience Award – James White by Josh Mond • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket by Paul Cabon • Short Film Jury Award: International – Oh Lucy! by Atsuko Hirayanagi • Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul by Kitty Green • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF by Frankie Shaw • Special Jury Prize for Acting: Short Filmmaking – Laure Calamy for Back Alley by Cécile Ducrocq • Special Jury Prize for Visual Poetry: Short Filmmaking – Object by Paulina Skibińska • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment Source: ===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 Source: ===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 Source: ===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 Source: ==2020s==

===2020=== • US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Minari • US Dramatic Audience Award: Minari • US Dramatic Directing Award: Radha Blank for The 40-Year-Old Version • US Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Edson Oda for Nine Days • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of Charm City Kings • US Dramatic Special Jury Award: Auteur Filmmaking – Josephine Decker for Shirley • US Dramatic Special Jury Award: Neo-Realism – Eliza Hittman for Never Rarely Sometimes Always • US Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Boys State (Jesse Moss) • US Documentary Audience Award: Crip Camp (Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham) • US Documentary Directing: Garrett Bradley for Time • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Tyler H. Walk for Welcome to Chechnya • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling – Kirsten Johnson for Dick Johnson Is Dead • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker – Arthur Jones for Feels Good Man • US Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking – Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg for The Fight • World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Massoud Bakhshi) • World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Identifying Features (Fernanda Valadez) • World Cinema Dramatic Directing: Maïmouna Doucouré for Cuties • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Ben Whishaw for Surge • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking – Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese for ''This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection'' • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay – Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez for Identifying Features • World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Epicentro (Hubert Sauper) • World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: The Reason I Jump (Jerry Rothwell) • World Cinema Documentary Directing: Iryna Tsilyk for The Earth Is Blue as an Orange • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling – Benjamin Ree for The Painter and the Thief • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Radu Ciorniciuc and Mircea Topoleanu for Acasă, My Home • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Mila Aung-Thwin, Ryan Mullins and Sam Soko for Softie • Short Film Grand Jury Prize: So What if the Goats Die, directed by Sofia Alaoui • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Ship: A Visual Poem, directed by Terrence Daye • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: The Devil’s Harmony, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, directed by Matthew Kilip • Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Daughter, directed by Daria Kashcheeva • NEXT Audience Award: I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing) • NEXT Innovator Award: I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing) • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Tesla (Michael Almereyda) Source: ===2021=== • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – CODA (Siân Heder) • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson) • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Hive (Blerta Basholli) • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen) • Audience Award: U.S.Dramatic – CODA (Siân Heder) • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson) • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Hive (Blerta Basholli) • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Writing with Fire (Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh) • Audience Award: NEXT – Ma Belle, My Beauty (Marion Hill) • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Siân Heder for CODA • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Natalia Almada for Users • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Blerta Basholli for Hive • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Hogir Hirori for Sabaya • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch for On the Count of Three • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno for Homeroom • NEXT Innovator Award - Dash Shaw for Cryptozoo • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of CODA • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Best Actor - Clifton Collins Jr. for Jockey • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Emerging Filmmaker - Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for Cusp • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Nonfiction Experimentation - Theo Anthony for All Light, Everywhere • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Vérité Filmmaking - Camilla Nielsson for President • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change - Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh for Writing with Fire • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting - Jesmark Scicluna for Luzzu • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision - Baz Poonpiriya for One for the Road • Short Film Grand Jury Prize - Lizard • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction - ''The Touch of the Master's Hand'' • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - Bambirak • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction - ''Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma'' • Short Film Jury Award: Animation - Souvenir Souvenir • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting - Wiggle Room • Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting - The Criminals • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Son of Monarchs • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction - Nicole Salazar for Philly D.A. • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction - Natalie Qasabian for Run • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction - Juli Vizza • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction - Terilyn Shropshire • Sundance Institute/NHK Award - Meryam Joobeur for Motherhood Source: ===2022=== • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu) • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Exiles (Ben Klein and Violet Columbus) • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi) • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen) • Festival Favorite – Navalny (Daniel Roher) • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff) • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Navalny (Daniel Roher) • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo) • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Territory (Alex Pritz) • Audience Award: NEXT – Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt) • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Jamie Dack for Palm Trees and Power Lines • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Reid Davenport for ''I Didn't See You There'' • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Maryna Er Gorbach for Klondike • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Simon Lereng Wilmont for A House Made of Splinters • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – K.D. Dávila for Emergency • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput for Fire of Love • NEXT Innovator Award – Chase Joynt for Framing Agnes • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of 892 • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision – Bradley Rust Gray for blood • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Margaret Brown for Descendant • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change – Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee for Aftershock • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Teresa Sánchez for Dos Estaciones • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit – Martika Ramirez Escobar for Leonor Will Never Die • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing for Midwives • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft – Alex Pritz for The Territory • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – ''The Headhunter's Daughter'' • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – If I Go Will They Miss Me • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Warsha • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Displaced • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Night Bus • Short Film Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here • Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – After Yang • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Su Kim for Free Chol Soo Lee • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Amanda Marshall for ''God's Country'' • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Toby Shimin • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Dody Dorn • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Hasan Hadi for ''The President's Cake'' Source: === 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 – Lío Mehiel for Mutt • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision – The Stroll • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression – Bad Press • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Fantastic Machine • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Against the Tide • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Sofia Alaoui for Animalia • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematography – Lílis Soares for Mami Wata • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – When You Left Me On That Boulevard • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Rest Stop • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Kidnapping of the Bride • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Will You Look At Me • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – The Flying Sailor • Short Film Special Jury Award, International: Directing – AliEN0089 • Short Film Special Jury Award, U.S.: Directing – The Vacation • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Pod Generation • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Jess Devaney for It’s Only Life After All • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Kara Durrett for The Starling Girl • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Mary Manhardt • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Troy Takaki • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Olive Nwosu for Lady Source: === 2024 === The following awards were given out: • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio) • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev) • World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez) • World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness (Silje Evensmo Jacobsen) • Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos) • Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae) • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang) • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae) • World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati) • World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin (Benjamin Ree) • NEXT – Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt) • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane • World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers • World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for FRIDA • NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟) • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union (Stephen Maing and Brett Story) • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for ''Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat'' • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes • NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines • Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming • Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love • U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die (Kate Jean Hollowell) • International Fiction: The Stag (An Chu) • Nonfiction: ''Bob's Funeral'' (Jack Dunphy) • Animation: Bug Diner (Phoebe Jane Hart) • NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die • Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin • Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Love Me === 2025 === • U.S. Dramatic – Atropia by Hailey Gates • U.S. Documentary – Seeds by Brittany Shyne • World Cinema Dramatic – Cactus Pears by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade • World Cinema Documentary – Cutting Through Rocks by , Mohammadreza Eyni • Short Film – The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos • U.S. Dramatic – Twinless by James Sweeney • U.S. Documentary – André Is an Idiot by Tony Benna • World Cinema Dramatic – DJ Ahmet by Georgi M. Unkovski • World Cinema Documentary – Prime Minister by Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz • NEXT – East of Wall by • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Rashad Frett for Ricky • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Geeta Gandbhir for The Perfect Neighbor • World Cinema Dramatic – Alireza Khatami for The Things You Kill • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Mstyslav Chernov for 2000 Meters to Andriivka • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Parker Laramie for André is an Idiot • NEXT Innovator Prize – Zodiac Killer Project by Charlie Shackleton • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of Plainclothes • US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Dylan O’Brien for Twinless • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award – Life After by Reid Davenport • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling – Selena y Los Dinos by Isabel Castro • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award – Mr. Nobody Against Putin by David Borenstein • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression – Coexistence, My Ass! by Amber Fares • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Georgi M. Unkovski for DJ Ahmet • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Writing – Two Women by Chloé Robichaud and Catherine Léger • Next: Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) by Joel Alfonso Vargas • U.S. Fiction – Trokas Duras by Jazmin Garcia • Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing Loren Waters – for Tiger • Short Film Special Jury Award for Animation Directing – May Kindred-Boothby for The Eating of an Orange • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Natalia León for Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Christopher Radcliff for We Were the Scenery • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Chheangkea for Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites • Festival Favorite Award: Come See Me in the Good Light by Ryan White === 2026 === The following awards were given out: • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – Josephine (Beth de Araújo) • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary – Nuisance Bear (Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman) • World Cinema Dramatic – Shame and Money (Visar Morina) • World Cinema Documentary – To Hold a Mountain (Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić) • NEXT Innovator Award – The Incomer (Louis Paxton) • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Josephine (Beth de Araújo) • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (David Alvarado) • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με) (Myrsini Aristidou) • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – One In A Million (Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes) • Audience Award: NEXT – Aanikoobijigan (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil) • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Josef Kubota Wladyka for Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – J.M. Harper for Soul Patrol • World Cinema Dramatic – Andrius Blaževičius for How to Divorce During the War • World Cinema Documentary – Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes for One In A Million • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Liz Sargent for Take Me Home • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Matt Hixon for Barbara Forever • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature – Bedford Park (Stephanie Ahn) • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The Friend’s House is Here • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence – Who Killed Alex Odeh? • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change – The Lake • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Filipiñana (Rafael Manuel) • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble – LADY (Olive Nwosu) • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact – Birds of War • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance – Everybody To Kenmure Street • NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression – TheyDream (William David Caballero) • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Baddest Speechwriter of All (Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry) • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Crisis Actor (Lily Platt) • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Jazz Infernal (Will Niava) • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – The Boys and the Bees (Arielle C. Knight) • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Living with a Visionary (Stephen P. Neary) • Short Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt) • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Noah Roja and Filippo Carrozza for The Liars • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – In The Blink of An Eye (Andrew Stanton) • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Apoorva Guru Charan (Take Me Home) • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Dawne Langford (Who Killed Alex Odeh?) • Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction – Mollie Goldstein • Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction – Flavia de Souza • NHK Award – Leo Aguirre (Verano) ==References==