Some stats, as per the Festival’s press release: All of the awards went to the films’ listed directors, unless otherwise specified. Also, all of the listed films were U.S. productions, unless otherwise specified.
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… Of the 28 prizes awarded tonight to 25 films – comprising the work of 29 filmmakers – 12 (48%) were directed by one or more women; 10 (40%) were directed by one or more people of color; and 2 (8%) were directed by a person who identifies as LGBTQ+.
Sundance Film Festival Awards 2020 Winners
The full listing of the winners of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards: Grand Jury Prize: Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung Audience Award: Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung Directing Award: The 40-Year-Old Version, directed by Radha Blank Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nine Days, written and directed by Edson Oda Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: Charm City Kings, directed by Angel Manuel Soto Special Jury Award – Auteur Filmmaking: Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker Special Jury Award – Neo-Realism: Never Rarely Sometimes Always, directed by Eliza Hittman Grand Jury Prize: Boys State, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jess Moss Audience Award: Crip Camp, directed by Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham
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Directing Award: Time, directed by Garrett Bradley Special Jury Award for Editing: Tyler H. Walk for Welcome to Chechnya, directed by David France Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling: Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Feels Good Man, directed by Arthur Jones Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking: The Fight, directed by Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman, and Elyse Steinberg Grand Jury Prize: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness (Iran, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg), directed by Massoud Bakhshi Audience Award: Identifying Features (Mexico, Spain), directed by Fernanda Valadez Directing Award: Cuties (France), directed by Maïmouna Doucouré Special Jury Award for Acting: Ben Whishaw for Surge (United Kingdom), directed by Aneil Karia Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking: This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection (Lesotho, South Africa, Italy), directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese Special Jury Prize for Best Screenplay: Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez for Identifying Features, directed by Fernanda Valadez Grand Jury Prize: Epicentro (Austria, France, U.S.A.), directed by Hubert Sauper) Audience Award: The Reason I Jump (United Kingdom), directed by Jerry Rothwell Directing Award: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (Ukraine, Lithuania), directed by Iryna Tsilyk Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling: The Painter and the Thief (Norway), directed by Benjamin Ree Special Jury Award for Cinematograhpy: Mircea Topoleanu and Radu Ciorniciuc for Acasa, My Home (Romania, Germany, Finland), directed by Radu Ciorniciuc Special Jury Award for Editing: Mila Aung-Thwin, Ryan Mullins, and Sam Soko for Softie (Kenya), directed by Sam Soko Audience Award: I Carry You With Me (U.S.A., Mexico), directed by Heidi Ewing Innovator Prize: I Carry You With Me (U.S.A., Mexico), directed by Heidi Ewing Grand Jury Prize: So What If The Goats Die (France, Morocco), directed by Sofia Alaoui Jury Award – U.S. Fiction: Ship: A Visual Poem, directed by Terrance Daye Jury Award – International Fiction: The Devil’s Harmony (United Kingdom), directed by Dylan Holmes Williams Jury Award – Nonfiction: John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, directed by Matthew Killip Jury Award – Animation: Daughter (Czech Republic), directed by Daria Kashcheeva Special Jury Award for Acting: Exam (Iran), directed by Sonia K. Hadad Special Jury Award for Directing: Valerio’s Day Out (Colombia, U.S.A.), directed by Michael Arcos Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Tesla, directed by Michael Almereyda Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Documentary: Carla Guttierez Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Narrative: Affonso Gonçalves NHK Award: Higher (Singapore), directed by Kirsten Tan Leave your thoughts on the winners of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards below in the comments section. For more Sundance Film Festival news coverage, photos, videos, and information, visit our Film Festival Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and Facebook.
