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Sundance Festival Award Winners
Sundance Festival Award WinnersSundance Festival Award Winners
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 |
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