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Sundance Film Festival — Winners (U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary) (since 1984)

This is the list of all major winners: U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary Feature Competitions (in different years: «Grand Jury Prize») of the Sundance Film Festival since 1984. In the notes: information about the number of the festival, the year of the event and the country of production of the winner.

Unrewarded Years due to canceled, or noncompetitive, or failed competitive festival issue:

• 1978-1984

Multiple Winners:

Ondi Timoner: (2004, 2009) — US
Eugene Jarecki: (2005, 2012) — US
Talal Derki: (2014, 2018) — Syria

Winners by Country:

United States — 98: (1984 (x2), 1985 (x2), 1986 (x2), 1987 (x3), 1988 (x2), 1989 (x2), 1990 (x3), 1991 (x3), 1992 (x3), 1993 (x4),…

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  • Josephine

    1

  • Nuisance Bear

    2

  • Shame and Money

    3

  • To Hold a Mountain

    4

  • Atropia

    5

  • Seeds

    6

  • Cactus Pears

    7

  • Cutting Through Rocks

    8

  • In the Summers

    9

  • Porcelain War

    10

  • Sujo

    11

  • A New Kind of Wilderness

    12

  • A Thousand and One

    13

  • Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

    14

  • Scrapper

    15

  • The Eternal Memory

    16

  • Nanny

    17

  • The Exiles

    18

  • Utama

    19

  • All That Breathes

    20

  • CODA

    21

  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    22

  • Hive

    23

  • Flee

    24

  • Minari

    25

  • Boys State

    26

  • Yalda

    27

  • Epicentro

    28

  • Clemency

    29

  • One Child Nation

    30

  • The Souvenir

    31

  • Honeyland

    32

  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post

    33

  • The Price of Free

    34

  • Butterflies

    35

  • Of Fathers and Sons

    36

  • I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

    37

  • Dina

    38

  • The Nile Hilton Incident

    39

  • Last Men in Aleppo

    40

  • The Birth of a Nation

    41

  • Weiner

    42

  • Sand Storm

    43

  • Sonita

    44

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    45

  • The Wolfpack

    46

  • Slow West

    47

  • The Russian Woodpecker

    48

  • Whiplash

    49

  • Rich Hill

    50

  • To Kill a Man

    51

  • Return to Homs

    52

  • Fruitvale Station

    53

  • Blood Brother

    54

  • Jiseul

    55

  • A River Changes Course

    56

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    57

  • The House I Live In

    58

  • Violeta Went to Heaven

    59

  • The Law in These Parts

    60

  • Like Crazy

    61

  • How to Die in Oregon

    62

  • Happy, Happy

    63

  • Hell and Back Again

    64

  • Winter's Bone

    65

  • Restrepo

    66

  • Animal Kingdom

    67

  • The Red Chapel

    68

  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

    69

  • We Live in Public

    70

  • The Maid

    71

  • Rough Aunties

    72

  • Frozen River

    73

  • Trouble the Water

    74

  • The King of Ping Pong

    75

  • Man on Wire

    76

  • Blood of My Blood

    77

  • Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

    78

  • Sweet Mud

    79

  • Enemies of Happiness

    80

  • Quinceañera

    81

  • God Grew Tired of Us

    82

  • 13 Tzameti

    83

  • In the Pit

    84

  • Forty Shades of Blue

    85

  • Why We Fight

    86

  • The Hero

    87

  • Shape of the Moon

    88

  • Primer

    89

  • Dig!

    90

  • American Splendor

    91

  • Capturing the Friedmans

    92

  • Personal Velocity

    93

  • Daughter from Danang

    94

  • The Believer

    95

  • Southern Comfort

    96

  • You Can Count on Me

    97

  • Girlfight

    98

  • Long Night's Journey into Day

    99

  • Three Seasons

    100