The Sundance Film Festival has revealed award winners for its 2022 edition. Like the rest of this year’s festival, which was forced to go all-virtual because of the recent Omicron surge, the awards ceremony played out on Twitter, with honours spread around across the diverse lineup unlike last year, when CODA swept the top honours.
Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, while the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to The Exilesdirected by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus. Marquee Audience Awards wins went to Apple’s big sales pickup Cha Cha Real Smooth, and the surprise secrent-screening documentary Navalny, which won both the Audience Award in the U.S. Doc section as well as the omnibus Festival Favourite Award.
Here’s the full list of winners.
FESTIVAL FAVORITE AWARD
Navalny
Director: Daniel Roher
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Audience Award
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Director-Writer: Cooper Raiff
Grand Jury Award
Nanny
Director-Writer: Nikyatu Jusu
Directing
Jamie Dack
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
K.D. Dávila
Emergency
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast
John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington and Michael K Williams
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Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision
Bradley Rust Gray
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U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Audience Award
Navalny
Director: Daniel Roher
Grand Jury Prize
The Exiles (U.S.)
Directors: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
Directing
Reid Davenport
I Didn’t See You There
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award
Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput
Fire Of Love
Special Jury Award: Impact for Change
Aftershock
Directors: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee
Special Jury Award: Creative Vision
Descendant
Director: Margaret Brown
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Audience Award
The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/U.S.)
Grand Jury Prize
All That Breathes (India/UK)
Director: Shaunak Sen
Directing
Simon Lereng Wilmont
A House Made Of Splinters (Denmark)
Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft
The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/U.S.)
Director: Alex Pritz
Special Jury Award: Excellence In Verité Filmmaking
Midwives (Myanmar)
Director: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Audience Award
Girl Picture (Finland)
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Grand Jury Prize
Utama (Bolvia/Uruguay/France)
Director-Writer: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Directing
Maryna Er Gorbach
Klondike (Ukraine/Turkey)
Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit
Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
Director-Writer: Martika Ramirez Escobar
Special Jury Award: Acting
Teresa Sánchez
Dos Estaciones (Mexico)
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Audience Award
Framing Agnes (Canada/U.S.)
Director: Chase Joynt
SHORT FILMS AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize
The Headhunter’s Daughter (Philippines)
Director-Writer: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
If I Go Will They Miss Me (U.S.)
Director-writer: Walter Thompson-Hernández
Jury Award: International Fiction
Warsha (France/Lebanon)
Director-writer: Dania Bdeir
Jury Award: Nonfiction
Displaced (Kosovo)
Director-writer: Samir Karahoda
Jury Award: Animation
Night Bus (Taiwan)
Director-writer: Joe Hsieh
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast
Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorre Motta
A wild patience has taken me here (Brazil)
Director-writer: Érica Sarmet
Special Jury Award: Screenwriting
Sara Driver
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (U.S.)
Directors: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster; Writer: Sara Driver
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNERS
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
After Yang
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction
Su Kim, Free Chol Soo Lee (U.S. Documentary Competition)
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction
Amanda Marshall, God’s Country (Premieres)
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction
Toby Shimin
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction
Dody Dorn
Sundance Institute | NHK Award
Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake
