Sundance Film Festival Awards 2016 Complete Winners List
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival Awards were handed out on Saturday, January 30, after 10 days of premieres and deals. Taika Waititi, the director of festival film Hunt for the Wilderpeople, hosted the awards ceremony, which took place in Park City, Utah.
Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation swept the top prizes and marked only the fourth time a film has won the top categories — the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize — at the festival. The only other three films to do so were the 2013 film Fruitvale Station, the 2014 film Whiplash, and the 2015 film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Fox Searchlight purchased Birth of a Nation, which is based on a slave rebellion in 1831, for $17.5 million — the biggest deal in Sundance history, Deadline reports. The film premiered Monday night and received a standing ovation from the crowd.
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“Thank you Lord, thank you Sundance,” Parker said while accepting the awards. “I’ve seen first-hand that people are open to the idea of change, and the fact that this is happening means everything to me.”
Check out the complete winners list below.
U.S. DRAMATIC
Audience Award
Birth Of A Nation
Nate Parker
Grand Jury Prize
Birth Of A Nation
Nate Parker
Directing
Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Swiss Army Man
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Chad Hartigan
Morris From America
Special Jury Award – Individual Performance
Melanie Lynskey
The Intervention
Special Jury Award – Individual Performance
Craig Robinson
Morris from America
Special Jury Award – Breakthrough Performance
Joe Seo
Spa Night
Special Jury Award
As You Are
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
It takes artists and audiences together to make it all work.
Let’s do it again next year?
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U.S. DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize
Weiner
Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman
Audience Award
Jim: The James Foley Story
Brian Oakes
Directing
Roger Ross Williams
Life, Animated
Special Jury Award – Vérité Filmmaking
The Bad Kids
Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe
Special Jury Award – Writing
Kate Plays Christine
Robert Greene
Special Jury Award – Social Impact Filmmaking
Trapped
Dawn Porter
NEXT Audience Award
First Girl I Loved
Kerem Sanga
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WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC
Audience Award
Between Sea and Land / Colombia
Directors: Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo
Sand StormGrand Jury Prize
Sand Storm / Israel
Director: Elite Zexer
Directing Award
Belgica / Belgium-France-Netherlands
Felix van Groeningen
Special Jury Award – Unique Vision and Design
The Lure / Poland
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Special Jury Award – Screenwriting
Mi Amiga Del Parque / Argentina-Uruguay
Screenwriters: Inés Bortagaray, Ana Katz
Special Jury Award – Acting
Vicky Hernandéz, Manolo Cruz
Between Sea and Land / Colombia
#Sundance US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: The Birth of a Nation (@NatTurnerFilm), director/screenwriter: @NateParker pic.twitter.com/9eEPuh5sjC
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WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize
Sonita / Germany-Iran-Swizerland
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Directing
All These Sleepless Nights / Poland
Michal Marczak
Special Jury Award – Best Editing
We Are X / UK-U.S.-Japan
Editors: Mako Kamitsuna, John Maringouin
Special Jury Award – Best Cinematography
The Land Of The Enlightened / Belgium
DP: Pieter-Jan De Pue
Special Jury Award – Best Debut Feature
When Two Worlds Collide / Peru
Directors: Mathew Orzel, Heidi Brandenburg
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
Embrace of the Serpent<
Directed by Ciro Guerra
#Sundance US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Weiner, directors: @jkriegman, Elyse Steinberg pic.twitter.com/FtWY6HqY2k
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SHORT FILM PRIZES
Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Thunder Road / U.S.
Director and screenwriter: Jim Cummings
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
The Procedure / U.S.
Director and screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
Maman(s) / France
Director and screenwriter: Maïmouna Doucouré
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction
Bacon & God’s Wrath / Canada
Director: Sol Friedman
Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Edmond / UK
Director and screenwriter: Nina Gantz
Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance
Grace Glowicki
Her Friend Adam
Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction
Peacock / Czech Republic
Director: Ondrej Hudecek, Screenwriters: Jan Smutny, Ondrej Hudecek
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