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Grand Jury Prize

Documentary

Winner
Dina
6.8 (1.2K)
Dan Sickles(director)
Antonio Santini(director)
Casting JonBenet
6.1 (5.9K)
Kitty Green(director)
Chasing Coral
8.0 (5.9K)
Jeff Orlowski-Yang(director)
City of Ghosts
7.4 (4.3K)
Matthew Heineman(director)
Dolores
7.3 (398)
Peter Bratt(director)
The Force
6.8 (749)
Peter Nicks(director)
Icare
7.9 (57K)
Bryan Fogel(director)
The New Radical
6.7 (112)
Adam Bhala Lough(director)
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
6.5 (4.5K)
Brian Knappenberger(director)
Quest
7.2 (369)
Jonathan Olshefski(director)
Step
7.0 (1.3K)
Amanda Lipitz(director)
Strong Island
6.4 (4.3K)
Yance Ford(director)
Trophy
7.3 (785)
Shaul Schwarz(director)
Christina Clusiau(director)
Unrest
7.5 (3.3K)
Jennifer Brea(director)
Water & Power: A California Heist
7.3 (352)
Marina Zenovich(director)
Whose Streets?
6.0 (1.4K)
Sabaah Folayan(director)
Damon Davis(director)

Dramatic

Winner
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
6.9 (66K)
Macon Blair
Anna et Ben
6.6 (6.1K)
Zoe Lister-Jones
Beach Rats
6.4 (18K)
Eliza Hittman
Brigsby Bear
7.3 (18K)
Dave McCary
Burning Sands
6.0 (3.2K)
Gerard McMurray
Crown Heights
6.7 (3K)
Matt Ruskin
Golden Exits
5.7 (2.4K)
Alex Ross Perry
The Hero
6.5 (11K)
Brett Haley
Instalife
6.6 (50K)
Matt Spicer
Landline
6.4 (5K)
Gillian Robespierre
Novitiate
6.7 (5.6K)
Maggie Betts
Patti Cake$
6.8 (11K)
Geremy Jasper
Roxanne Roxanne
6.2 (3.8K)
Michael Larnell
To the Bone
6.8 (58K)
Marti Noxon
Walking Out
5.8 (6.9K)
Alex Smith
Andrew J. Smith
The Yellow Birds
5.8 (5K)
Alexandre Moors

World Cinema - Documentary

Winner
Les derniers hommes d'Alep
7.4 (3.1K)
Feras Fayyad
A Kind of Magic, une année pour grandir
7.3 (338)
It's Not Yet Dark
7.5 (267)
Joshua contre une superpuissance
7.3 (1.7K)
Su liao wang guo
7.6 (643)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
7.8 (1.1K)
Tokyo Idols - Les pop girls du Japon
6.9 (1.3K)
Winnie
6.3 (221)
The Workers Cup
6.8 (270)
Hyvä postimies
7.3 (382)
Tonislav Hristov
Motherland
7.1 (281)
Ramona S. Diaz
Machines
7.3 (672)
Rahul Jain

World Cinema - Dramatic

Winner
Le Caire Confidentiel
6.8 (9.7K)
Tarik Saleh(director)
Axolotl Overkill
5.2 (932)
Helene Hegemann(director)
Berlin Syndrome
6.3 (29K)
Cate Shortland(director)
Carpinteros
7.0 (638)
José María Cabral(director)
La fille alligator
5.7 (223)
Felipe Bragança(director)
Vida de Familia
6.4 (174)
Alicia Scherson(director)
Cristián Jiménez(director)
Free and Easy
6.4 (488)
Jun Geng(director)
Seule la terre
7.6 (39K)
Francis Lee(director)
Une famille heureuse
7.4 (4.4K)
Nana Ekvtimishvili(director)
Simon Groß(director)
Pop Aye
6.6 (1.2K)
Kirsten Tan(director)
Sueño en otro idioma
7.4 (4.4K)
Ernesto Contreras(director)
Les Initiés
6.8 (2.2K)
John Trengove(director)

Special Jury Prize

Documentary

Winner
Icare
7.9 (57K)
Bryan Fogel(director)
The Orwell Award
Winner
Strong Island
6.4 (4.3K)
Yance Ford
-Storytelling.
Winner
Step
7.0 (1.3K)
Amanda Lipitz
-Inspirational Filmmaking.

Documentary Editing

Winner
Unrest
7.5 (3.3K)
Kim Roberts
Emiliano Battista
Jennifer Brea

Dramatic

Winner
Roxanne Roxanne
6.2 (3.8K)
Chanté Adams
-Breakthrough performance.
Winner
Novitiate
6.7 (5.6K)
Maggie Betts
-Breakthrough Director.

World Cinema - Documentary

Winner
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
7.8 (1.1K)
Catherine Bainbridge
Alfonso Maiorana
-Masterful Storytelling.

World Cinema - Dramatic

Winner
Free and Easy
6.4 (488)
Jun Geng
-Cinematic Visions.

Directing Award

Documentary

Winner
The Force
6.8 (749)
Peter Nicks

Dramatic

Winner
Beach Rats
6.4 (18K)
Eliza Hittman(director)

World Cinema - Documentary

Winner
Winnie
6.3 (221)
Pascale Lamche

World Cinema - Dramatic

Winner
Seule la terre
7.6 (39K)
Francis Lee

Cinematography Award

Dramatic

Winner
The Yellow Birds
5.8 (5K)
Daniel Landin

World Cinema - Documentary

Winner
Machines
7.3 (672)
Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva

World Cinema - Dramatic

Winner
Axolotl Overkill
5.2 (932)
Manuel Dacosse

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Winner
Instalife
6.6 (50K)
David Branson Smith
Matt Spicer

Audience Award

Best of Next!

Winner
Gook
7.0 (2.8K)
Justin Chon(director)
Columbus
7.2 (23K)
Kogonada
Stupid Things
6.2 (590)
Amman Abbasi
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train
6.0 (2.1K)
Sydney Freeland
A Ghost Story
6.8 (84K)
David Lowery
It Happened in L.A.
5.5 (236)
Michelle Morgan
Lemon
4.7 (2.9K)
Janicza Bravo
Brooklyn Yiddish
6.6 (2.7K)
Joshua Z Weinstein
Manhattan Stories
5.7 (1.9K)
Dustin Guy Defa
Pur-sang
6.6 (48K)
Cory Finley

Documentary

Winner
Chasing Coral
8.0 (5.9K)
Jeff Orlowski-Yang

Dramatic

Winner
Crown Heights
6.7 (3K)
Matt Ruskin(director)

World Cinema - Documentary

Winner
Joshua contre une superpuissance
7.3 (1.7K)
Joe Piscatella(director)
It's Not Yet Dark
7.5 (267)
Frankie Fenton(director)
Kathryn Kennedy(producer)
Lesley McKimm(producer)
Kennedy Films
Newgrange Pictures

World Cinema - Dramatic

Winner
Sueño en otro idioma
7.4 (4.4K)
Ernesto Contreras(director)

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

Winner
Marjorie Prime
6.3 (7.1K)
Michael Almereyda

NHK Award

Winner
Babak Anvari
Project: "I Came By"

Editing Award

World Cinema - Documentary

Winner
Motherland
7.1 (281)
Ramona S. Diaz

Screenwriting Award

World Cinema - Dramatic

Winner
Pop Aye
6.6 (1.2K)
Kirsten Tan

Short Film Grand Jury Prize

Winner
Sôshite watashi-tachi wa pûru ni kingyo o,
7.3 (684)
Makoto Nagahisa
American Paradise
7.7 (102)
Joe Talbot
Cecile on the Phone
5.9 (66)
Annabelle Dexter-Jones
Come Swim
6.3 (585)
Kristen Stewart
Good Crazy
7.5 (62)
Rosa Salazar
Hardware
6.1 (19)
Stephen Jacobson
Hold On
6.8 (11)
Christine Turner
Hot Seat
6.0 (189)
Anna Kerrigan
I Know You from Somewhere
7.1 (118)
Andrew Fitzgerald
Kaiju Bunraku
6.5 (78)
Lucas Leyva
Jillian Mayer
Laps
6.7 (345)
Charlotte Wells
Lucia, Before and After
6.0 (108)
Anu Valia
Night Shift
7.3 (74)
Marshall Tyler
Rubber Heart
7.1 (22)
Lizzy Born
5 Films About Technology
7.1 (176)
Peter Huang
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
7.2 (176)
Francisca Alegria
Dadyaa
8.5 (31)
Bibhusan Basnet
Pooja Gurung
Dawn of the Deaf
6.8 (489)
Rob Savage
Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives
7.5 (75)
Shola Amoo
Toru
7.8 (8)
Jae Minard
Scott Rashap
La Convention de Genève
6.8 (84)
Benoît Martin
A Test
Matthew Zuxiang Zhao
MappaMundi
7.2 (28)
Bady Minck
Mare Nostrum
7.0 (88)
Rana Kazkaz
Anas Khalaf
Pedro
5.8 (190)
Marco Leão
André Santos
Slapper
6.4 (152)
Luci Schroder
Ce qui nous éloigne
6.4 (39)
Wei Hu
Op-Docs
8.1 (49)
Garrett Bradley
For "Alone"
Bayard & Me
8.1 (68)
Matt Wolf
Wiezi
7.0 (144)
Zofia Kowalewska
Episode dated 18 August 2016
6.3 (10)
Kenneth Guglielmino
Matthew Larsen
Scott J. Ross
El Buzo
7.9 (40)
Esteban Arrangoiz Julien
Fish Story
7.1 (84)
Charlie Shackleton
Hairat
7.0 (162)
Jessica Beshir
Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy
7.1 (64)
Lewie Kloster
Project X
6.8 (144)
Henrik Moltke
Laura Poitras
My Father's Tools
6.1 (77)
Heather Condo
The Rabbit Hunt
6.8 (119)
Patrick Bresnan
Plongeons
7.3 (571)
Axel Danielson
Maximilien Van Aertryck
Tough
6.9 (78)
Jennifer Zheng
Visions of an Island
6.6 (38)
Sky Hopinka
Waiting for Hassana
8.8 (18)
Ifunanya Maduka
White Riot: London
8.4 (11)
Rubika Shah
Do No Harm
7.1 (125)
Roseanne Liang
Saatanan kanit
7.1 (324)
Teemu Niukkanen
Hot Winter: A Film by Dick Pierre
8.0 (38)
Jack Henry Robbins
Un ciel bleu presque parfait
6.9 (33)
Quarxx
Pussy
6.7 (1K)
Renata Gasiorowska
The Robbery
7.1 (321)
Jim Cummings
Natsu no gero wa fuyu no sakana
5.0 (45)
Sawako Kabuki
Le futur sera chauve
7.1 (53)
Paul Cabon
Black Holes
6.1 (435)
David Nicolas
Laurent Nicolas
Brisées
6.6 (92)
Alexander Lahl
Volker Schlecht
Jonas et la Mer
6.5 (70)
Marlies van der Wel
Et ta prostate, ça va?
6.1 (14)
Jeanne Paturle
Cécile Rousset
Warau kumo
5.7 (9)
Keiichi Tanaami
Love
7.2 (187)
Réka Bucsi
Nocna ptica
6.2 (124)
Spela Cadez
Nutag-Homeland
6.7 (91)
Alisi Telengut
Summer Camp Island
7.7 (364)
Julia Pott
Trumpet Man
5.6 (26)
Emily Wong

Short Film Jury Award

Animation

Winner
Brisées
6.6 (92)
Alexander Lahl
Volker Schlecht

Documentary

Winner
Op-Docs
8.1 (49)
Garrett Bradley
For "Alone".

International Fiction

Winner
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye
7.2 (176)
Francisca Alegria

Special Jury Award

Winner
Dadyaa
8.5 (31)
Chintan Rajbhandari
-Cinematography.

U.S. Fiction

Winner
Lucia, Before and After
6.0 (108)
Anu Valia
American Paradise
7.7 (102)
Joe Talbot(director)

Short Film Special Jury Award

Editing

Winner
Laps
6.7 (345)
Blair McClendon(editor)

Horizon Award

Emerging Female Filmmaker

Winner
Andréa Villanueva

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Sundance Film Festival
Sundance United States Film Festival
United States Film Festival

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