Festivals - Sundance 2022 : Award Winners Announced

By Mulder, 29 january 2022

The Sundance Film Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades, including Flee, CODA, Passing, Summer Of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Clemency, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Zola, On The Record, Boys State, The Farewell, Honeyland, One Child Nation, The Souvenir, The Infiltrators, Sorry to Bother You, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hereditary, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, Brooklyn, Precious, The Cove, Little Miss Sunshine, An Inconvenient Truth, Napoleon Dynamite, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Reservoir Dogs and sex, lies, and videotape. 

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U.S. Grand Jury Prize: 
Dramatic: Nikyatu Jusu for Nanny
Documentary: Ben Klein and Violet Columbus for The Exiles

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: 
Dramatic: Alejandro Loayza Grisi for Utama
Documentary: Shaunak Sen for All That Breathes

Audience Award: 
U.S. Documentary: Navalny
U.S. Dramatic: Cha Cha Real Smooth
World Cinema Dramatic: Girl Picture
World Cinema Documentary: The Territory
NEXT: Framing Agnes

Festival Favorite Award: Navalny 

Directing Award: U.S. 
Documentary: Reid Davenport for I Didn’t See You There
Dramatic: Jamie Dack for Palm Trees and Power Lines

World Cinema Documentary: Simon Lereng Wilmont for A House Made Of Splinters

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic: Maryna Er Gorbach for KLONDIKE

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic: K.D. Dávila for Emergency

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: 
U.S. Documentary: Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput for Fire Of Love
Uncompromising Artistic Vision: Bradley Rust Gray for blood
Ensemble Cast: John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington, and Michael K Williams for 892

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: 
Impact for Change: Aftershock
Creative Vision: Descendant

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: 
Documentary Craft: The Territory
Excellence In Verité Filmmaking: Midwives

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: 
Innovative Spirit: Leonor Will Never Die
Acting: Teresa Sánchez for Dos Estaciones

NEXT Innovator Award presented by Adobe: Framing Agnes

Short Film Grand Jury Prize: The Headhunter’s Daughter

Short Film Jury Award: 
U.S. Fiction: IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME
International Fiction: Dania Bdeir for Warsha
Nonfiction: Samir Karahoda for Displaced
Animation: Joe Hsieh for Night Bus

Short Film Special Jury Award: 
Ensemble Cast: Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro, and Lorre Motta for A wild patience has taken me here
Screenwriting: Sara Driver for Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver

Previously announced: 

2022 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: After Yang

Sundance Institute
Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Su Kim for Free Chol Soo Lee
Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Amanda Marshall God’s Country
Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction: Toby Shimin
Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction: Dody Dorn
NHK Award: Hasan Hadi for The President’s Cake

(Source : press release)