2022 Sundance Film Festival Awards List

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Source: Sundance Institute

Will Teare

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