Sundance Film Festival (2016)

Year: 2016

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Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: "The Birth of a Nation" by Nate Parker

Directing Award: Dramatic: Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for "Swiss Army Man"

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Chad Hartigan for "Morris From America"

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for "As You Are"

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance: Joe Seo for "Spa Night"

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance: Melanie Lynskey for "The Intervention" and Craig Robinson for "Morris from America"

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: "Weiner" by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman

Directing Award: Documentary: Roger Ross Williams for "Life, Animated"

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski for "NUTS!"

Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary: "Trapped" by Dawn Porter

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing: Robert Greene for "Kate Plays Christine"

Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary: "The Bad Kids" by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: "Sand Storm" by Elite Zexer

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic: Felix van Groeningen for "Belgica"

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz for "Between Land and Sea"

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Ana Katz and Inés Bortagaray for "Mi Amiga del Parque"

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision & Design: "The Lure" by Agnieszka Smoczyńska

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary: "Sonita" by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary: Michal Marczak for "All These Sleepless Nights"

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Debut Feature: Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel for "When Two Worlds Collide"

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography: Pieter-Jan De Pue for "The Land of the Enlightened"

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin for "We Are X"

Audience Award: Dramatic: "The Birth of a Nation" by Nate Parker

Audience Award: Documentary: "Jim: The James Foley Story" by Brian Oakes

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic: "Between Sea and Land" by Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary: "Sonita" by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami

Best of NEXT Audience Award: "First Girl I Loved" by Kerem Sanga

Short Film Grand Jury Prize: "Thunder Road" by Jim Cummings

Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: "The Procedure" by Calvin Lee Reeder

Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: "Maman(s)" by Maïmouna Doucouré

Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction: "Bacon and God's Wrath" by Sol Friedman

Short Film Jury Award: Animation: "Edmond" by Nina Gantz

Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance: Grace Glowicki for "Her Friend Adam"

Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction: Ondřej Hudeček for "Peacock"

Alfred P. Sloan Prize: "Embrace of the Serpent" by Ciro Guerra