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

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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 Documentary – In Heaven There Is No Beer?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 – Fly by Night

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

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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

Audience Award Dramatic – Spanking the Monkey

Audience Award Dramatic – Picture Bride

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

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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 Documentary – Ballot Measure 9

Audience Award Documentary – 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

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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

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 – 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

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1997

Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Girls Like Us

Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Sunday

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 – SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

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

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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

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1999

Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Movie

Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Three Seasons

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

World Cinema Audience Award – Train of Life

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

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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 Dramatic – Two Family House

Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Americanos: Latino Life in The United States

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 – No One Writes to the Colonel

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Darling International

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – G.

Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Kevin Spacey

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2001

Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Southern Comfort

Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Believer

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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 director of 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

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2007

2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Dark Matter

Audience Award: Documentary – Hear and Now

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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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2014

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Whiplash

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

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Rich Hill

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 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 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

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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 Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West by John Maclean

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Alanté Kavaïté 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 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

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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 Ghaem Maghami

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 Ghaem Maghami

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

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