Well, another Sundance Film Festival has come to a close! Here’s what won at this year’s festival. If this year is like other years, a few of the films mentioned below will also be players once Oscar season begins later this year. For instance, just from what I’ve read, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Minari‘s name come up quite a bit between now and next January.
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: “Minari” Lee Isaac Chung
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: “Boys State,” Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: “Tesla”
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing: Carla Guttierez and Affonso Gonçalves
- Producers Award: Huriyyah Muhammad, “Farewell Amor”
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: “So What If the Goats Die,” Sofia Alaoui
- NEXT Audience Award: “I Carry You With Me,” Heidi Ewing
- NEXT Innovator Award: “I Carry You With Me,” Heidi Ewing
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: “Softie,” Mila Aung-Thwin, Sam Soko, and Ryan Mullins
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: “Acasa, My Home,” Mircea Topoleanu and Radu Ciorniciuc
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling: “The Painter and the Thief,” Benjamin Ree
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary: Iryna Tsilyk, “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”
- Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic: Radha Blank, “The 40-Year-Old Version”
- Directing Award: U.S. Documentary: Garrett Bradley, “Time”
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Hubert Sauper, “Epicentro”
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Ben Whishaw, “Surge”
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, “This is Not a Burial, This is a Resurrection”
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay: Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, “Identifying Features”
- Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic: Maïmouna Doucouré, “Cuties”
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize World Dramatic: “Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness,” Massoud Bakhshi
- Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary: “The Reason I Jump”
- Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic: “Identifying Features”
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary: “Crip Camp”
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Arthur Jones, “Feels Good Man”
- Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic: “Minari,” Lee Isaac Chung
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres, “The Fight”
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling: Kirsten Johnson, “Dick Johnson Is Dead”
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Tyler H. Walk, “Welcome to Chechnya”
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: “Charm City Kids”
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking: Josephine Decker, “Shirley”
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Neorealism: Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Edson Oda, “Nine Days”
- Directing Award: U.S. Documentary: Garrett Bradley, “Time”
Through the Shattered Lens 