The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.
64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.
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
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
Jury Prize: Short Film, U.S. Fiction - The Black Balloon
Jury Prize: Short Film, International Fiction - The Return
Jury Prize: Short Film, Non-Fiction - The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Jury Prize: Animated Short FIlm - A Morning Stroll
Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) web documentary Bear 71 premiered January 20 in an installation at the festival's New Frontier multimedia program. The NFB documentary Payback, based on Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, and the documentary A Place at the Table, also premiered at the festival.
