The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 1, 2015. What Happened, Miss Simone?, a biographical documentary film about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival. Comedy-drama film Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz, served as the closing night film.
The awards ceremony was held on January 30, 2015 at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah. The ceremony was hosted by comedian Tig Notaro.
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Wolfpack
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Russian Woodpecker
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Meru
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Umrika
Audience Award: Best of NEXT – James White
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Witch
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Dreamcatcher
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – The Summer of Sangaile
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Stanford Prison Experiment
Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary – How to Change the World
Editing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dope
Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land
Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Partisan
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Jack Reynor for Glassland and Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact – Pervert Park
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access – The Chinese Mayor
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact – 3½ Minutes
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking – Western
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision – Advantageous
Special Jury Award for Breakout First Feature – (T)ERROR
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment
Additional awards were presented at separate ceremonies. The Shorts Awards were presented January 28, 2015 at the ceremony in Park City, Utah.
Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Oh Lucy!
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket
Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Back Alley
Short Film Special Jury Award for Visual Poetry – Object
Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Haifaa al-Mansour for Be Safe I Love You, K'naan for The Poet, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for Luxembourg, Oskar Sulowski for Rosebuds.
Sundance Institute/NHK Filmmaker Award – Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre for Mustang.
2015 Red Crown Producer’s Award – Stephanie Langhoff for The Bronze.
Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on December 18, 2014. Presenters of awards are followed by asterisks:
Others who presented awards included Adam Scott, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Corrigan, Patrick Fugit and Trevor Groth.
For a full list of films appeared at the festival, see List of films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
The number of seats available at the festival theaters, where films were shown is listed below:
Park City
Eccles Theatre – 1,270 seats
Egyptian Theatre – 282 seats
Holiday Village Cinema 4 – 162 seats
Library Center Theatre – 486 seats
The MARC Theatre – 550 seats
Prospector Square Theatre – 324 seats
Redstone Cinema 1 – 188 seats
Redstone Cinema 2 – 175 seats
Redstone Cinema 7 – 176 seats
Temple Theatre – 840 seats
Yarrow Hotel Theatre – 295 seats
Salt Lake City
Broadway Cinema 3 – 243 seats
Broadway Cinema 6 – 245 seats
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center – 495 seats
SLC Library – 300 seats
Tower Theatre – 349 seats
The Grand Theatre – 1,100 seats
Sundance Resort
Sundance Resort Screening Room – 164 seats
Ogden
Peery's Egyptian Theatre – 840 seats
Acquisitions at the festival included the following:
A24
The End of the Tour
The Witch
Mississippi Grind
Alchemy
Strangerland
Zipper
Bleeker Street
I'll See You In My Dreams
Broad Green
A Walk in the Woods
Discover Channel
Racing Extinction
Film Arcade
Unexpected
Focus
Cop Car
Fortissimo
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Fox Searchlight
Mistress America
Me, Earl And The Dying Girl
Brooklyn
Gravitas Ventures
Being Evel
HBO
3 1/2 Minutes
IFC Films
The D Train
Sleeping with Other People
IFC Midnight
Reversal
The Hallow
Kino Lorber
The Forbidden Room
Lionsgate
Don Verdean
Knock Knock
Magnolia
Results
Tangerine
Best of Enemies
The Wolfpack
Netflix
Hot Girls Wanted
Open Road
Dope
Orchard
The Overnight
Digging for Fire
Finders Keepers
Cartel Land
Oscilloscope
The Second Mother
Relativity Sports
In Football We Trust
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Fresh Dressed
Lila & Eve
Screen Media Films
Ten Thousand Saints
Showtime
Dreamcatcher
Sony Pictures Classics
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Grandma
Dark Horse
Sundance Selects
City of Gold
Tribeca Film
Misery Loves Comedy
Relativity
The Bronze
