Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

This is the list of the winners of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features.

Winners

Year Winner Director(s) Ref.
1978 Girlfriends Claudia Weill [1][2]
The Whole Shootin' Match (second place) Eagle Pennell [3]
1982 Circle of Power Bobby Roth [4]
1983 Purple Haze David Burton Morris [5]
1984 Old Enough Marisa Silver [6][7]
1985 Blood Simple Joel Coen [8][9]
1986 Smooth Talk Joyce Chopra [10][11]
1987 The Trouble with Dick Gary Walkow [12]
Waiting for the Moon Jill Godmilow [7]
1988 Heat and Sunlight Rob Nilsson [13][7]
1989 True Love Nancy Savoca [14][7]
1990 Chameleon Street Wendell B. Harris Jr. [15][16]
1991 Poison Todd Haynes [17][18]
1992 In the Soup Alexandre Rockwell [19][7]
1993 Public Access Bryan Singer [20]
Ruby in Paradise Victor Nuñez [7]
1994 What Happened Was... Tom Noonan [21][22]
1995 The Brothers McMullen Edward Burns [23]
The Young Poisoner's Handbook Benjamin Ross [24]
1996 Welcome to the Dollhouse Todd Solondz [25][26]
1997 Sunday Jonathan Nossiter [27][7]
1998 Slam Marc Levin [23][28]
1999 Three Seasons Tony Bui [29][7]
2000 Girlfight Karyn Kusama [30][31]
You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan [32][7]
2001 The Believer Henry Bean [33][34]
2002 Personal Velocity Rebecca Miller [35][7]
2003 American Splendor Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini [36]
2004 Primer Shane Carruth [37]
2005 Forty Shades of Blue Ira Sachs [7]
2006 Quinceañera Richard Glatzer [38][7]
2007 Padre Nuestro Christopher Zalla [7]
2008 Frozen River Courtney Hunt [7][39]
2009 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Lee Daniels [40][41]
2010 Winter's Bone Debra Granik [42][39]
2011 Like Crazy Drake Doremus [7]
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin [43][44]
2013 Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler [45]
2014 Whiplash Damien Chazelle [46][7]
2015 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Alfonso Gomez-Rejon [7]
2016 The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker [7]
2017 I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore Macon Blair [7]
2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan [7][47]
2019 Clemency Chinonye Chukwu [7]
2020 Minari Lee Isaac Chung [48][49]
2021 CODA Sian Heder [50][51]
2022 Nanny Nikyatu Jusu [7][52]
2023 A Thousand and One A.V. Rockwell [7]
2024 In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio [53][54]
2025 Atropia Hailey Gates [55]
2026 Josephine Beth de Araújo [56]

International winners

See also

References

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