2016 Sundance Film Festival

Awards

• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
• Directing Award: Dramatic – Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for Swiss Army Man
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Chad Hartigan for Morris From America
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award – Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for As You Are
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Joe Seo for Spa Night
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance – Melanie Lynskey for The Intervention and Craig Robinson for Morris from America
• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Weiner by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman
• Directing Award: Documentary – Roger Ross Williams for Life, Animated
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski for NUTS!
• Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – Trapped by Dawn Porter
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing – Robert Greene for Kate Plays Christine
• Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – The Bad Kids by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe
• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
• World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Felix van Groeningen for Belgica
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz for Between Land and Sea
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Ana Katz and Inés Bortagaray for Mi Amiga del Parque
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision & Design – The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
• World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
• World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Michal Marczak for All These Sleepless Nights
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Debut Feature – Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel for When Two Worlds Collide
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Pieter-Jan De Pue for The Land of the Enlightened
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin for We Are X
• Audience Award: Dramatic – The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
• Audience Award: Documentary – by Brian Oakes
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Between Sea and Land by Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
• Best of NEXT Audience Award – First Girl I Loved by Kerem Sanga
• Short Film Grand Jury Prize – Thunder Road by Jim Cummings
• Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – The Procedure by Calvin Lee Reeder
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Maman by Maïmouna Doucouré
• Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – Bacon and God's Wrath by Sol Friedman
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Edmond by Nina Gantz
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance – Grace Glowicki for Her Friend Adam
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction – Ondřej Hudeček for Peacock
• Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerra

  Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

• As You Are by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
• Christine by Antonio Campos
• Equity by Meera Menon
• Goat by Andrew Neel
• Joshy by Jeff Baena
• Lovesong by So Yong Kim
• Morris from America by Chad Hartigan
• Other People by Chris Kelly
• Southside With You by Richard Tanne
• Spa Night by Andrew Ahn
• Swiss Army Man by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
• Tallulah by Sian Heder
• The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
• The Free World by Jason Lew
• The Intervention by Clea DuVall
• White Girl by Elizabeth Wood

  U.S. Documentary Competition

• Audrie & Daisy by Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
• ' by Jeff Feuerzeig
• The Bad Kids by Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
• Gleason by Clay Tweel
• Holy Hell by Will Allen
• How to Let Go of the World by Josh Fox
• ' by Brian Oakes
• Kate Plays Christine by Robert Greene
• Kiki by Sara Jordenö
• Life, Animated by Roger Ross Williams
• Newtown by Kim A. Snyder
• NUTS! by Penny Lane
• Suited by Jason Benjamin
• Trapped by Dawn Porter
• Uncle Howard by Aaron Brookner
• Weiner by Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg

  Premieres

• 31 by Rob Zombie
• Agnus Dei by Anne Fontaine
• Ali and Nino by Asif Kapadia
• Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross
• Certain Women by Kelly Reichardt
• Complete Unknown by Joshua Marston
• Frank & Lola by Matthew Ross
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople by Taika Waititi
• Indignation by James Schamus
• Jacqueline Argentine by Bernardo Britto
• Little Men by Ira Sachs
• Love and Friendship by Whit Stillman
• Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan
• Mr. Pig by Diego Luna
• Sing Street by John Carney
• Sophie and the Rising Sun by Maggie Greenwald
• The Fundamentals of Caring by Rob Burnett
• The Hollars by John Krasinski
• Wiener-Dog by Todd Solondz

  World Cinema Dramatic Competition

• Belgica by Felix van Groeningen
• Between Sea and Land by Manolo Cruz & Carlos del Castillo
• Brahman Naman by Qaushiq Mukherjee
• A Good Wife by Mirjana Karanović
• Halal Love by Assad Fouladkar
• The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczynska
• Male Joy, Female Love by Yao Huang
• Mammal by Rebecca Daly
• My Friend from the Park by Ana Katz
• Much Ado About Nothing by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
• Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
• Wild by Nicolette Krebitz

  World Cinema Documentary Competition

• All These Sleepless Nights by Michal Marczak
• A Flag Without a Country by Bahman Ghobadi
• Hooligan Sparrow by Nanfu Wang
• The Land of the Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue
• The Lovers and the Despot by Robert Cannan & Ross Adam
• Plaza de la Soledad by Maya Goded
• The Settlers by Shimon Dotan
• by Kevin Macdonald
• Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
• We Are X by Stephen Kijak
• When Two Worlds Collide by Heidi Brandenburg & Mathew Orzel

  Juries

• Simon Kilmurry*
• Jill Lepore*
• Shola Lynch*
• Louie Psihoyos*
• Amy Ziering*

• Lena Dunham*
• Jon Hamm*
• Avy Kaufman*
• Randall Poster*
• Franklin Leonard*

• Mila Aung-Thwin*
• Tine Fischer*
• Asif Kapadia*

• Mark Adams*
• Fernanda Solorzano*
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul*

• Kerry Bishé
• Mike Cahill
• Shane Carruth
• Clifford Johnson
• Ting Wu

• Keegan-Michael Key
• Gina Kwon
• Amy Nicholson

  Acquisitions