If there was a way to “sweep” the Sundance Film Festival, “Coda” found the way. Taking home four awards including the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature, the film stands for Child Of Deaf Adult and follows a young, speaking girl with a passion for singing as she acts as a bridge between her deaf family and the outside world. Questlove’s documentary, “Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” won a pair of awards while international film “Hive” won three. With the entire festival taking place virtually this year, I felt extremely fortunate to take part in watching the films and will remember this moment fondly.
GRAND JURY PRIZES
U.S. Grand Jury Prize:
Documentary
“Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
USA
U.S. Grand Jury Prize:
DRAMA
“Coda”
Siân Heder
USA
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize:
Documentary
“Flee”
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize:
Dramatic
“Hive”
Blerta Basholli
Kosovo, Switzerland, Macedonia, Albania
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award:
U.S. Documentary
“Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
USA
Audience Award:
U.S. Dramatic
“Coda”
Siân Heder
USA
Audience Award:
World Cinema Dramatic
“Hive”
Blerta Basholli
Kosovo, Switzerland, Macedonia, Albania
Audience Award:
World Cinema Documentary
“Writing With Fire”
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
India
Audience Award: NEXT
“Ma Belle, My Beauty”
Marion Hill
USA, France
DIRECTING, SCREENWRITING & EDITING AWARDS
Directing Award:
U.S. Documentary
“Users”
Natalia Almada
U.S.A., Mexico
Directing Award:
U.S. Dramatic
“Coda”
Siân Heder
USA
Directing Award:
World Cinema Documentary
“Sabaya”
Hogir Hirori
Sweden
Directing Award:
World Cinema Dramatic
“Hive”
Blerta Basholli
Kosovo, Switzerland, Macedonia, Albania
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award:
U.S. Dramatic
“On the Count of Three”
Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch
USA
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award:
U.S. Documentary
“Homeroom”
Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno
USA
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
U.S. Dramatic
Special Jury Award
for Ensemble Cast
“Coda”
Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant, and Marlee Matlin
USA
U.S. Dramatic
Special Jury Award
for Best Actor
Clifton Collins, Jr.
“Jockey”
USA
U.S. Documentary
Special Jury Award:
Emerging Filmmaker
“Cusp”
Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt
USA
U.S. Documentary
Special Jury Award:
Nonfiction Experimentation
“All Light, Everywhere”
Theo Anthony
USA
World Cinema Documentary
Special Jury Award:
Vérité Filmmaking
“President”
Camilla Nielsson
Denmark, USA, Norway
World Cinema Documentary
Special Jury Award:
Impact for Change
“Writing With Fire”
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
India
World Cinema Dramatic
Special Jury Award:
Acting
“Luzzu”
Jesmark Scicluna
World Cinema Dramatic
Special Jury Award:
Creative Vision
“One For The Road”
Baz Poonpiriya
China, Hong Kong, Thailand
NEXT INNOVATOR
NEXT INNOVATOR PRIZE
“Cryptozoo”
Dash Shaw
USA
SHORT FILM AWARDS
Short Film Grand Jury Prize
“Lizard”
Akinola Davies, Jr.
United Kingdom
Short Film Jury Award:
U.S. Fiction
“The Touch of the Master’s Hand”
Gregory Barnes
USA
Short Film Jury Award:
International Fiction
“Bambirak”
Zamarin Wahdat
U.S.A., Germany
Short Film Jury Award:
Nonfiction
“Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma”
Topaz Jones
U.S.A., Germany, France, Italy
Short Film Jury Award:
Animation
“Souvenir Souvenir”
Bastien Dubois
France
Short Film Special Jury Award
for Acting
“Wiggle Room”
Sam Guest and Julia Baylis
USA
Short Film Special Jury Award
for Screenwriting
“The Criminals”
Serhat Karaaslan
France, Romania, Turkey
SPECIAL HONORS
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
“Sons of Monarchs”
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios
Producers Award
for Nonfiction
Nicole Salazar
“Philly D.A.”
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios
Producers Award
for Fiction
Natalie Qasabian
“Run”
Sundance Institute | Adobe
Mentorship Award
for Editing Nonfiction
Juli Vizza
Sundance Institute | Adobe
Mentorship Award
for Editing Fiction
Terilyn Shropshire
Sundance Institute | NHK Award
Meryman Joobeur
“Motherhood”
NOMINEES
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
| “Coda” |
| “I Was A Simple Man” |
| “Jockey” |
| “John and the Hole” |
| “Mayday” |
| “On The Count Of Three” |
| “Passing” |
| “Superior” |
| “Together Together” |
| “Wild Indian” |
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
| “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet” |
| “Fire In The Mountains” |
| “Hive” |
| “Human Factors” |
| “Luzzu” |
| “One For The Road” |
| “The Pink Cloud” |
| “El Planeta” |
| “Pleasure” |
| “Prime Time” |
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
| “Ailey” |
| “All Lights Everywhere” |
| “At The Ready” |
| “Cusp” |
| “Homeroom” |
| “Rebel Hearts” |
| “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It” |
| “Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” |
| “Try Harder!” |
| “Users” |
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
| “Captains of Zaatari” |
| “Faya Dayi” |
| “Flee” |
| “Misha and the Wolves” |
| “The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” |
| “Playing With Sharks” |
| “President” |
| “Sabaya” |
| “Taming the Garden” |
| “Writing With Fire” |
PREMIERES
| “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir” |
| “Bring Your Own Brigade” |
| “Eight For Silver” |
| “How It Ends” |
| “In The Earth” |
| “In The Same Breath” |
| “Judas and the Black Messiah” |
| “Land” |
| “Marvelous and the Black Hole” |
| “Mass” |
| “My Name is Pauli Murray” |
| “Night of the Kings” |
| “Philly D.A.” |
| “Prisoners of the Ghostland” |
| “The Sparks Brothers” |
| “Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street” |
| “The World to Come” |
NEXT
| “The Blazing World” |
| “Cryptozoo” |
| “First Date” |
| “Ma Belle, My Beauty” |
| “R#J” |
| “Searchers” |
| “Son Monarchs” |
| “Strawberry Mansion” |
| “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” |
MIDNIGHT
| “Censor” |
| “Coming Home in the Dark” |
| “A Glitch in the Matrix” |
| “Knocking” |
| “Mother Schmuckers” |
| “Violation” |
INDIE SERIES
| “4 Feet High” |
| “Seeds of Deceit” |
| “These Days” |
| “Would You Rather” |
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
| “Life In A Day” (2020) |
| “Ignite Shorts” |
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
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