2003 Sundance Film Festival

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Hosted by Sundance Institute

Location Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah Festival date January 16, 2003 (2003-01-16) to January 26, 2003 (2003-01-26) Website festival.sundance.org/2003

The 2003 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16 to January 26, 2003. American Splendor, a biopic of comic-book author Harvey Pekar, won the grand-jury prize. Steve Zahn and Maggie Gyllenhaal presented the wards in a ceremony televised live on the Sundance Channel.

Unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them singing artist Bob Dylan.

Awards

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Capturing the Friedmans

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – American Splendor

Audience Award: Documentary – My Flesh and Blood

Audience Award: Dramatic – The Station Agent

Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth – All the Real Girls

Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth – What Alice Found

Special Jury Prize for Performance – Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent; Pieces of April; All the Real Girls

Special Jury Prize for Performance – Charles Busch, Die, Mommie, Die!

Documentary Directing Award – Jonathan Karsh, My Flesh and Blood

Dramatic Directing Award – Catherine Hardwicke, Thirteen

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – Tom McCarthy, The Station Agent

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Dana Kupper, Gordon Quinn, and Peter Gilbert, Stevie

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Quattro Noza

The Freedom of Expression Award went to What I Want My Words to Do to You

Special Jury Prize for Documentary – The Murder of Emmett Till

Special Jury Prize for Documentary – A Certain Kind of Death

References

2003 Sundance Film Festival Wikipedia

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