The Sundance Film Festival was decidedly a virtual affair this year, but that didn’t stop the joy from the filmmakers, actors, and artists who were honored at the annual awards ceremony. The big winners this year included “Nanny,” “The Exiles,” “Cha Cha Smooth” and “Navalny,” which took two Audience Awards.
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Nikyatu’s “Nanny,” which is still available as an acquisition title at publication, took the prestigious Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Ben Klein and Violet Columbus’s “The Exiles,” also without distribution, took the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary Competition. Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Bolivian epic “Utama” won the World Cinema Drama Grand Prize.
Among the Audience Award winners, “Navalny,” “Cha Cha Smooth,” “Girl Picture” and “Framing Agnes” were recognized by viewers. This year, the festival debuted the overall Festival Favorite Award which included the Premieres category and all 84 new feature films at the festival. That prize also went to Daniel Roher’s “Navalny.”
A rare ensemble honor when to the cast of “892” which included John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, and Selenis Leyva.
A complete list of this year’s winners is as follows:
U.S. Dramatic: Grand Jury Prize – “Nanny,” directed by Nikyatu
U.S. Dramatic: Directing Award – Jamie Dack, “Palm Trees and Power Lines”
U.S. Dramatic: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – “Emergency,” written by K.D. Dávila
U.S. Dramatic: Special Jury Award Ensemble Cast: “892,” John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, and Selenis Leyva
U.S. Dramatic: Special Jury Award Uncompmosing Artistic Vision – “Blood,” directed by Bradley Rust Gray
U.S. Documentary: Grand Jury Prize – “The Exiles,” directed by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus.
U.S. Documentary – Directing Award – Reid Davenport, “I Didn’t See You There”
U.S. Documentary: Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – “Fire of Love,” edited by Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput
U.S. Documentary: Special Jury Award Creative Vision – “Descendant,” directed by Margaret Brown
U.S. Documentary: Special Jury Award Impact for Change – “Aftershock,” directed by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee
Festival Favorite Award: “Navalny,” directed by Daniel Roher
U.S. Dramatic: Audience Award – “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” directed by Cooper Raiff
U.S. Documentary: Audience Award – “Navalny,” directed by Daniel Roher
World Cinematic Drama: Audience Award – “Girl Picture,” directed by Alli Haapasalo
World Cinema Documentary: Audience Award – “The Territory,” directed by Alex Pritz
World CinemaDramatic: Grand Jury Prize – “Utama,” directed by Alejandro Loayza Grisi
World Cinema Dramatic: Directing Award – Maryna Er Gorbach, “Klondike”
World Cinema Dramatic: Special Jury Award Acting – Teresa Sánchez for “Dos Estaciones”
World Cinema Dramatic: Special Jury Award Innovative Spirit – “Leonor Will Never Die,” directed by Martika Ramirez Escobar
World Cinema Documentary: Grand Jury Prize – “All That Breathes,” directed by Shaunak Sen
World Cinema Documentary: Directing Award – Simon Lereng Wilmont, “A House Made of Splinters”
World Cinema Documentary: Special Jury Award Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – “Midwives,” directed by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
World Cinema Documentary: Special Jury Award Documentary Craft – “The Territory,” directed by Alex Pritz
NEXT Audience Award – “Framing Agnes,” directed by Chase Joint
NEXT Innovator Award – “Framing Agnes,” directed by Chase Joynt
Short Film Jury Award: Grand Jury – “The Headhunter’s Daughter,” directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” directed by Walter Thompson-Hernández
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – “Warsha,” directed by Dania Bdeir
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – “After Yang”
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction Su Kim, “Free Chol Soo Lee” (U.S. Documentary Competition)
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Amanda Marshall, “God’s Country” (Premieres)
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Toby Shimin
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Dody Dorn
Sundance Institute | NHK Award – Hasan Hadi, “The President’s Cake”
