Sundance Award Winners

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival is coming to an end and last night they announced their Jury and Audience Award winners.
For the 4th year in a row the top Jury Prize and Audience Prize went to the same movie. This year it has been the most talked about movie of the festival Birth of a Nation. The movie premiered to rave reviews and was snatched up in a record deal by Fox Searchlight.

Another one of the most talked about movies Swiss Army Man also known as the Daniel Radcliffe Farting Corpse movie won Best Director for The Daniels. This is a bit of a surprise since the movie really split audiences and was notorious for causing lots of walk outs.

Check out the full list of winners below. Take note because come Oscar season next year I am sure we will be talking about some of these.

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


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


WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC
Audience Award
Between Sea and Land / Colombia
Directors: Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo


Grand 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 Smoczyńska


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


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
(announced Wednesday)
Embrace of the Serpent
Directed by Ciro Guerra


SHORT FILM PRIZES
(announced Wednesday)
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: Ondřej Hudeček, Screenwriters: Jan Smutny, Ondřej Hudeček