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Sundance Festival Award Winners

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The culmination of the Sundance Film Festival is the Awards Ceremony. The competition juries, comprised of individuals from the worldwide film community with original and diverse points of view, select films from both the documentary and dramatic categories to receive a range of awards. Decided by Festivalgoers’ ballots, Audience Awards are bestowed upon films in each of the Festival’s four competition categories. Click here for a description of award categories.

  U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic   Fruitvale  
  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  
  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  
  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  
     
  Watch the full Awards Ceremony
Read the 2013 Sundance Festival Awards Press Release
For a full list of historical awards, click here