“Past Lives,” “The Eternal Memory,” and “20 Days in Mariupol” Are Nominated for Oscars

Young Asian woman and man sit side-by-side looking at each other, on a boat also transporting other people.

As we continue to dig into the best of what’s next at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, it’s always nice to be reminded of our storied past and the incredible artists that were part of this Festival in years past. 

While we are honoring the wealth of 40 years of Festing up in Park City, Utah, this morning we’re also feteing 2023 Sundance Film Festival projects because of their nominations for the 96th Academy Awards.

Past Lives, Celine Song’s powerful drama, nabbed nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, while the Best Documentary Feature Film category includes two gripping tales from last year’s Festival: 20 Days in Mariupol and The Eternal Memory.

At the top of the 2024 Festival we hosted our Opening Night Gala and honored Song, The Eternal Memory’s Maite Alberdi, along with fellow Oscar nominee and Sundance Alum Christopher Nolan. Check out all their speeches from that night here, and make sure to root for our Sundance family on March 10!

Maite Alberdi and Celine Song (photo by Michael Hurcomb/Shutterstock for Sundance)

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From the Archives: Revisit Robert Redford’s Words of Wisdom

To much of the world Robert Redford is Roy Hobbs, Bill McKay, Jeremiah Johnson, or invariably, The Sundance Kid. He is an artist, an activist, and a creative leader. But Robert Redford also inhabits another world, one where he’s known simply as “Bob.

From the Archives: Sundance Institute Founder Robert Redford on Why He’s Always Believed in the Power of Documentary Filmmaking

The Sundance Film Festival’s longstanding commitment to documentary has been driven by the personal connection founder and president Robert Redford feels for the form. Leading up to the premiere of Chicago 10, the second doc to ever open the Festival, we talked to Redford about the past, present, and possible future of documentaries.You made an early commitment to documentary.

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