2022 Sundance Film Festival Awards List
January 28, 2022
With the annual Sundance Film Festival officially wrapped up, it’s time to celebrate the best cinematic voices at this year’s festival. After nine days, 84 feature films, and 59 short films, here are the winners!
Festival Favorite Award: Navalny by Daniel Roher (U.S. Documentary Competition)
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize: Nanny by Nikyatu Jusu
Audience Award: Cha Cha Real Smooth by Cooper Raiff
Directing: Jamie Dack, Palm Trees, and Power Lines
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: K.D. Dávalia, Emergency
Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision: Bradley Rust Gray, Blood
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast: John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton Olivia Washington, and Selenis Leyva, 892
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize: The Exiles by Ben Cline
Audience Award: Navalny by Daniel Roher
Directing: Reid Davenport, I Didn’t See You There
Special Jury Award: Impact for Change: Aftershock by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee
Special Jury Award: Creative Vision: Margaret Brown, Descendant
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize: Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Audience Award: Girl Picture by Alli Haapasalo
Directing Award: Maryna Er Gorbach, Klondike
Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit: Leonor Will Never Die by Martika Ramirez Escobar
Special Jury Award: Acting: Teresa Sánchez, Dos Estaciones
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize: All That Breathes by Shaunak Sen
Audience Award: The Territory by Alex Pritz
Directing Award: A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont
Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft: The Territory by Alex Pritz
Special Jury Award for Excellence In Verité Filmmaking: Midwives by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize: The Headhunter’s Daughter by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Best Animation: Night Bus by Joe Hsieh
Best Nonfiction: Displaced by Samir Karahoda
Best International Fiction: Warsha by Dania Bdeir
Best U.S. Fiction: If I Go Will They Miss Me by Walter Thompson-Hernández
Special Jury Award: Screenwriting: Sara Driver, Stranger Than Rotterdam With Sara Driver
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast: Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro, and Lorre Motta, A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here