Sundance Film Festival 2021 Award Winners Announced
Patton Oswalt closed the first virtual Sundance Film Festival by hosting the end-of-event awards ceremony. Held virtually, filmmakers from all of this year’s categories accepted their awards from home. Here’s a look at all of this year’s award winners, with links to reviews for films we covered.
Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Grand Jury Prizes
- U.S. Dramatic - CODA
- U.S. Documentary - Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize - Flee
- World Cinema Dramatic - Hive
Audience Awards
- U.S. Documentary presented by Acura - Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) directed by Ahmir “Questlove”” Thompson
- U.S. Dramatic presented by Acura - CODA directed by Siân Heder
- World Cinema Dramatic - Hive directed by Blerta Basholli
- World Cinema Documentary - Writing With Fire directed by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
- NEXT Audience Award presented by Adobe - Ma Belle, My Beauty directed by Marion Hill
Directing, Screenwriting & Editing Awards
- US Documentary - Natalia Almada for Users
- US Dramatic - Sian Heder for CODA
- World Cinema Documentary - Hogir Hirori for Sabaya
- World Cinema Dramatic - Hive by Blerta Basholli
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic - Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch for On the Count of Three
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award - Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno for Homeroom
Special Jury Awards
- US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast - CODA
- US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Actor - Clifton Collins, Jr. of Jockey
- US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker - Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for Cusp
- US Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation - Theo Anthony for All Light, Everywhere
- World Documentary Special Jury Award in Verite Filmmaking - President directed by Camilla Nielsson
- World Documentary Special Jury Award in Impact for Change - Writing With Fire directed by Rintu Thomas
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting - Jesmark Scicluna in Luzzu
- World Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision - One for the Road
NEXT Innovator Prize Presented by Adobe
- Cryptozoo directed by Dash Shaw
Short Film Awards Presented by Southwest Airlines
- Grand Jury Prize - Lizard directed by Akinola Davies Jr.
- US Fiction - The Touch of the Master’s Hand directed by Gregory Barnes
- International Fiction - Bambirak directed by Zamarin Wahdat
- Nonfiction - Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma directed by Topaz Jones and rubberband
- Animation - Souvenir Souvenir directed by Bastien Dubois
- Screenwriting - Serhat Karaaslan for The Criminals
- Acting - Deanna Gibson in Wiggle Room