This year’s Sundance Film Festival capped off this evening with the fest’s annual awards show, held at Park City, Utah’s own Basin Recreation Field House. The ceremony kicked off at 7:00PM MT, featuring host (and Sundance premiere “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” director) Taikaย Waititi shepherding along the festivities mostly amusing (and endearingly self-relective) fashion.
Featuring awards judged by six different juries, the ceremony is always a lively, fun and forward-thinking end to the festival. Big winners included World features like “Sonita” and “Between Land and Sea,” along with U.S. offerings like “Morris From America” and “The Birth of a Nation.”
Check out the full list of winners below:
U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize:ย “The Birth of a Nation”
U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize:ย “Weiner”
U.S. Documentary Directing Award:ย Roger Ross Williams, “Life, Animated”
U.S. Dramatic Directing Award:ย The Daniels (Daniel Scheinart and Daniel Kwan), “Swiss Army Man”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:ย “Sand Storm”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:ย “Sonita”
U.S. Dramatic Audience Award:ย “The Birth of a Nation”
U.S. Documentary Audience Award:ย “Jim”
World Cinema Audience Award, Dramatic:ย “Between Sea and Land”
World Cinema Audience Award, Documentary:ย “Sonita”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award:ย Chad Hartigan, “Morris From America”
NEXT Audience Award:ย “First Girl I Loved”U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize:ย “As You Are”
U.S. Dramaticย Breakthrough Performance Award:ย Joe Seo, “Spa Night”
U.S. Dramaticย Individual Performance Award:ย Craig Robinson, “Morris From America”
U.S. Dramaticย Individual Performance Award:ย Melanie Lynskey, “The Intervention”
U.S. Documentary Editing Award:ย “NUTS!”
U.S. Documentary Social Impact Filmmaking Award:ย “Trapped”
U.S. Documentary Writing Award:ย “Kate Plays Christine”
U.S. Documentary Verite Filmmaking Award:ย “The Bad Kids”
World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary:ย “All These Sleepless Nights”
World Cinema Directing Award, Dramatic:ย “Belgica”
World Cinema Acting Award, Dramatic:ย Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz, “Between Land and Sea”
World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Dramatic:ย “Mi Amiga del Parque”
World Cinema Unique Vision and Design Award, Dramatic:ย “The Lure”
World Cinema Editing Award, Documentary:ย “We Are X”
World Cinema Cinematography Award, Documentary:ย “The Land of the Enlightened”
World Cinema Best First Feature Award, Documentary:ย “When Two Worlds Collide”
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