Awards - Sundance Film Festival - 1995-2004

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Primer (Shane Carruth)
• The Best Thief in the World (Jacob Kornbluth)
• Book of Love (Alan Brown)
• Brother to Brother (Rodney Evans)
• Chrystal (Ray McKinnon)
• Down to the Bone (Debra Granik)
• Easy (Jane Weinstock)
• Evergreen (Enid Zentelis)
• Garden State (Zach Braff)
• Harry + Max (Christopher Munch)
• Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston)
• Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
• November (Greg Harrison)
• One Point O (Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson)
• We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran)
• The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• DiG! (Ondi Timoner)
• The Fight (Barak Goodman)
• Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army (Robert Stone)
• Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman)
• Farmingville (Carlos Sandoval, Catherine Tambini)
• I Like Killing Flies (Matt Mahurin)
• Imelda (Ramona S. Diaz)
• In the Realms of the Unreal (Jessica Yu)
• Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
• Word Wars (Julian Petrillo)
• Heir to an Execution: A Granddaughter's Story (Ivy Meeropol)
• A Place of Our Own (Stanley Nelson)
• Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed (Shola Lynch)
• Home of the Brave (Paola di Florio)
• Persons of Interest (Alison Maclean, Tobias Perse)
• Deadline (Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Debra Granik (Down to the Bone)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Larry Gross (We Don't Live Here Anymore)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Nancy Schreiber (November)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Ferne Pearlstein (Imelda)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award

• Brother to Brother (Rodney Evans)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• Vera Farmiga (Down to the Bone)

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award

• Farmingville (Carlos Sandoval, Catherine Tambini)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (Ross Kauffman)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

• La Grande Séduction (Jean-François Pouliot)

Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary

• The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar)

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

• Primer (Shane Carruth)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• When the Storm Came (Shilpi Gupta)
• Gowanus, Brooklyn (Ryan Fleck)
• Are You Feeling Lonely? (Rosario Garcia-Montero)

International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking

• Tomo (Paul Catling)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Curtis (Jacob Akira Okada)
• Harvie Krumpet (Adam Elliot)
• Krumped (David LaChapelle)
• Papillon d'amour (Nicolas Provost)
• Spokane (Larry Kennar)

Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking

• Wet Dreams and False Images (Jesse Epstein)

Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation

• Bathtime in Clerkenwell (Alex Budovsky)

Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms

• The Dawn at my Back: Memoir of a Texas Upbringing (Carroll Parrott Blue, Kristy H.A. Kang)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking

• Strangers (Guy Nattiv, Erez Tadmor)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation

• Drum Machine (Andrew Cope)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• György Pálfi (Taxidermia)
• Andrucha Waddington (The House of Sand)
• Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know)

NHK Filmmaker Award - Honorable Mention

• Kosuke Hosokai

Freedom of Expression Award

• Repatriation (Dong-won Kim)

Visionary Award

• Mark Ordesky

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
• All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
• Camp (Todd Graff)
• The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
• Die, Mommie, Die! (Mark Rucker)
• Dopamine (Mark Decena)
• The Mudge Boy (Michael Burke)
• Party Monster (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)
• Pieces of April (Peter Hedges)
• Streets of Legend (Joey Curtis)
• Rhythm of the Saints (Sarah Rogacki)
• The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy)
• The Technical Writer (Scott Saunders)
• Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke)
• The United States of Leland (Matthew Ryan Hoge)
• What Alice Found (A. Dean Bell)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
• Bukowski: Born into This (John Dullaghan)
• A Certain Kind of Death (Grover Babcock, Blue Hadaegh)
• A Decade Under the Influence (Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese)
• My Flesh and Blood (Jonathan Karsh)
• Robert Capa: In Love and War (Anne Makepeace)
• The Same River Twice (Robb Moss)
• Stevie (Steve James)
• Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (Mark Moormann)
• The Weather Underground (Sam Green, Bill Siegel)
• What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, Gary Sunshine)
• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer)
• The Education of Gore Vidal (Deborah Dickson)
• American Experience (Chana Gazit, David Steward) epizoda The Phil
• State of Denial (Elaine Epstein)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Jonathan Karsh (My Flesh and Blood)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Derek Cianfrance (Streets of Legend)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Peter Gilbert, Dana Kupper, Gordon Quinn (Stevie)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent)
• Charles Busch (Die, Mommie, Die!)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Emotional Truth

• All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
• What Alice Found (A. Dean Bell)

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award

• The Murder of Emmett Till (Stanley Nelson)
• A Certain Kind of Death (Grover Babcock, Blue Hadaegh)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• My Flesh and Blood (Jonathan Karsh)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

• Whale Rider (Niki Caro)

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

• Dopamine (Timothy Breitbach, Mark Decena)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• Terminal Bar (Stefan Nadelman)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Ocularist (Vance Malone)
• EarthQuake! (James Brett)
• Pan with Us (David Russo)
• The Planets (Francesca Talenti)
• The Freak (Aristomenis Tsirbas)
• Fits & Starts (Vince Di Meglio)
• From the 104th Floor (Sergey Basin)
• Asylum (Sandy McLeod)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking

• One (Stewart Hendler)
• S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse (Stephen Marshall)
• Icarus of Pittsburgh (Kirk Hostetter, Evan Mather)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation

• Broken Saints (Brooke Burgess)
• LOR: Lots of Robots (Andy Murdock)
• Bumble Beeing (Billy Blob)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Yeşim Ustaoğlu (Waiting for the Clouds)
• Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll (Whisky)
• Michael Kang (The Motel)
• Mai Tominaga (Wool 100%)

Freedom of Expression Award

• What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, Gary Sunshine)

Visionary Award

• Colin Callender

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Holly Hunter

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (Rebecca Miller)
• A Place on Earth (Artour Aristakisian)
• One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek)
• Bark! (Kasia Adamik)
• Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin)
• Cherish (Finn Taylor)
• Face (Bertha Bay-Sa Pan)
• Killing Time (Anthony Jaswinski)
• Love Liza (Todd Louiso)
• Manito (Eric Eason)
• Narc (Joe Carnahan)
• Paradox Lake (Przemyslaw Reut)
• Pumpkin (Anthony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder)
• Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso)
• Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
• The Slaughter Rule (Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith)
• Tadpole (Gary Winick)
• XX/XY (Austin Chick)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Daughter From Danang (Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco)
• Miss America (Lisa Ades)
• Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (Avon Kirkland)
• Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch)
• Close to Home (Alexandra Dickson, Vanessa Roth)
• The Cockettes (Bill Weber, David Weissman)
• Derrida (Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering)
• How to Draw a Bunny (John W. Walter)
• Señorita extraviada (Lourdes Portillo)
• Sister Helen (Rebecca Cammisa, Rob Fruchtman)
• American Standoff (Kristi Jacobson)
• Blue Vinyl (Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand)
• Daddy & Papa (Johnny Symons)
• The Execution of Wanda Jean (Liz Garbus)
• Family Fundamentals (Arthur Dong)
• Two Towns of Jasper (Whitney Dow, Marco Williams)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Gary Winick (Tadpole)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Rebecca Cammisa, Rob Fruchtman (Sister Helen)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Gordy Hoffman (Love Liza)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Ellen Kuras (Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Daniel B. Gold (Blue Vinyl)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros (Real Women Have Curves)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality of Vision

• Steven Shainberg (Secretary)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast

• Manuel Cabral, Franky G, Panchito Gómez, Hector M. Gonzalez, Julissa Lopez, Leo Minaya, Jessica Morales (Manito)

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award

• How to Draw a Bunny (John W. Walter)
• Señorita extraviada (Lourdes Portillo)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

• Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
• The Last Kiss (Gabriele Muccino)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• Gasline (Dave Silver)
• A Big Issue (Sara Mast)
• 16F9 (Stefano Moris)
• 2+2 (Clayton Hemmert, Benita Raphan)
• A Stoner's Life (Brett Froomer)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Bus 44 (Dayyan Eng)
• Drowning Lessons (Gregory Kennedy)
• Morning Breath (Brin Hill)
• No Dumb Questions (Melissa Regan)
• The Parlor (Geoffrey Haley)
• Stuck (Jamie Babbit)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation

• Karma Ghost (Billy Blob)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking New Forms

• Carny Tales (Scott Smith)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Live Action

• Guerrilla News Network: Crack the CIA (Stephen Marshall)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Gjergj Xhuvani
• Sebastián Cordero (Chronicles)
• Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer)
• Seisoku Kajita (The Man Who Wipes Mirrors)

Freedom of Expression Award

• Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Lee Hirsch)

Latin America Cinema Award

• The Invader (Beto Brant)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Benicio Del Toro

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• The Believer (Henry Bean)
• 30 Years to Life (Vanessa Middleton)
• The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee)
• The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner)
• The Deep End (Scott McGehee, David Siegel)
• Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
• Green Dragon (Timothy Linh Bui)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
• In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
• L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta)
• Lift (DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter)
• MacArthur Park (Billy Wirth)
• Memento (Christopher Nolan)
• Scotland, PA. (Billy Morrissette)
• The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Munch)
• Some Body (Henry Barrial)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Southern Comfort (Kate Davis)
• Chain Camera (Kirby Dick)
• Children Underground (Edet Belzberg)
• Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
• Endurance - Verschollen im Packeis (George Butler)
• Home Movie (Chris Smith)
• LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke)
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (William Greaves)
• Scratch (Doug Pray)
• Startup.com (Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim)
• Trembling Before G-d (Sandi Simcha Dubowski)
• Go Tigers! (Kenneth A. Carlson)
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind (Stanley Nelson)
• The Natural History of the Chicken (Mark Lewis)
• Scout's Honor (Tom Shepard)
• Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent (Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Stacy Peralta (Dogtown and Z-Boys)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan (Memento)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Giles Nuttgens (The Deep End)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Albert Maysles (LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award

• Children Underground (Edet Belzberg)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
• Scout's Honor (Tom Shepard)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

• The Road Home (Yimou Zhang)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• Gina, an Actress, Age 29 (Paul Harrill)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Delusions in Modern Primitivism (Daniel Loflin)
• Jigsaw Venus (Dean Kapsalis)
• Metropopular (Jonah Hall)
• Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix (Anthony Dominici)
• Pie Fight '69 (Christian Bruno, Sam Green)
• Sweet (Elyse Couvillion)
• Zen and the Art of Landscaping (David Kartch)

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking

• Freeware (Alex Orrelle)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Michael Burke (The Mudge Boy)
• Daniel Burman (Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven)
• Fatima Jebli Ouazzani
• Hidenori Sugimori (Woman of Water)
• Laurence Coriat
• Simone Horrocks

Freedom of Expression Award

• Scout's Honor (Tom Shepard)

Latin America Cinema Award

• Possible Loves (Sandra Werneck)
• Without a Trace (María Novaro)

Latin America Cinema Award - Honorable Mention

• Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins (André Barcinski, Ivan Finotti)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Julianne Moore

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Girlfight (Karyn Kusama)
• You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
• Blessed Art Thou (Tim Disney)
• Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta)
• Committed (Lisa Krueger)
• Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (Rob Schmidt)
• Drop Back Ten (Stacy Cochran)
• Everything Put Together (Marc Forster)
• Other Voices (Dan McCormack)
• Our Song (Jim McKay)
• Shadow Hours (Isaac H. Eaton)
• Songcatcher (Maggie Greenwald)
• The Tao of Steve (Jenniphr Goodman)
• Urbania (Jon Shear)
• Beyond the Ocean (Tony Pemberton)
• Compensation (Zeinabu Irene Davis)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Long Night's Journey Into Day (Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid)
• Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians (Anne Makepeace)
• The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (Aiyana Elliott)
• Dark Days (Marc Singer)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)
• George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (Daniel McCabe, Paul Stekler)
• Paragraph 175 (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman)
• Sound and Fury (Josh Aronson)
• Americanos: Latino Life in the United States (Susan Todd, Andrew Young)
• First Person Plural (Deann Borshay)
• Just, Melvin: Just Evil (James Ronald Whitney)
• Nuyorican Dream (Laurie Collyer)
• Stranger with a Camera (Elizabeth Barret)
• Well-Founded Fear (Michael Camerini, Shari Robertson)
• Legacy (Tod Lending)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Karyn Kusama (Girlfight)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman (Paragraph 175)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Tom Krueger (Committed)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Andrew Young (Americanos: Latino Life in the United States)
• Marc Singer (Dark Days)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• Donal Logue (The Tao of Steve)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast

• Jane Adams, Pat Carroll, Iris DeMent, Greg Huge, Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn (Songcatcher)

Documentary Special Jury Award for Artistic Achievement

• The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (Aiyana Elliott)

Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing a Documentary

• George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire (Steve Fayer, Daniel McCabe, Paul Stekler)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Two Family House (Raymond De Felitta)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Dark Days (Marc Singer)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

• Saving Grace (Nigel Cole)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• Five Feet High and Rising (Peter Sollett)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• G. (Rolf Gibbs)
• Titler (Jonathan Bekemeier)
• The Drowning Room (Patrick Jolley, Reynold Reynolds)
• This Is for Betsy Hall (Hope Hall)
• Ice Fishing (Alexandra Kondracke)
• Darling International (Jennifer Todd Reeves, M.M. Serra)
• Friday (Jodi Gibson)
• Hitch (Bradley Rust Gray)
• The Bats (Jim Trainor)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Randy Redroad (The Doe Boy)
• 森淳一 (Laundry)
• Dana Rotberg (Otilia Rauda)
• Carine Adler

Freedom of Expression Award

• Dark Days (Marc Singer)

Latin America Cinema Award

• Herod's Law (Luis Estrada)
• No One Writes to the Colonel (Arturo Ripstein)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Kevin Spacey

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Ba mùa (Tony Bui)
• The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (Tod Williams)
• The Autumn Heart (Steven Maler)
• Getting to Know You (Lisanne Skyler)
• Guinevere (Audrey Wells)
• Happy, Texas (Mark Illsley)
• The Hi-Line (Ron Judkins)
• The Item (Dan Clark)
• Joe the King (Frank Whaley)
• Judy Berlin (Eric Mendelsohn)
• The Minus Man (Hampton Fancher)
• Roberta (Eric Mandelbaum)
• A Slipping-Down Life (Toni Kalem)
• Trick (Jim Fall)
• Tumbleweeds (Gavin O'Connor)
• Treasure Island (Scott King)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• American Movie (Chris Smith)
• Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood (Michael Epstein)
• American Pimp (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
• The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (Stanley Nelson)
• Home Page (Doug Block)
• On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)
• Regret to Inform (Barbara Sonneborn)
• Sex: The Annabel Chong Story (Gough Lewis)
• Speaking in Strings (Paola di Florio)
• American Hollow (Rory Kennedy)
• Death: A Love Story (Michelle LeBrun)
• The Legacy: Murder & Media, Politics & Prisons (Michael J. Moore)
• The Living Museum (Jessica Yu)
• Rabbit in the Moon (Emiko Omori)
• Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (Jon Else)
• The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (Chuck Workman)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Eric Mendelsohn (Judy Berlin)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Barbara Sonneborn (Regret to Inform)

Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic

• Gavin O'Connor (Tumbleweeds)

Filmmakers Trophy Documentary

• Jon Else (Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Audrey Wells (Guinevere)
• Frank Whaley (Joe the King)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Lisa Rinzler (Ba mùa)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Emiko Omori (Rabbit in the Moon)

Dramatic Special Jury Award for Comedic Performance

• Steve Zahn (Happy, Texas)

Dramatic Special Jury Award for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking

• Treasure Island (Scott King)

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award

• On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)

Latin America Cinema Special Jury Award

• Life Is to Whistle (Fernando Pérez)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Ba mùa (Tony Bui)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Genghis Blues (Roko Belic)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

• Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)
• Train of Life (Radu Mihaileanu)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• More (Mark Osborne)

Short Film Special Jury Award

• Fishbelly White (Michael Burke)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Atomic Tabasco (James Cox)
• Come Unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton (Nicole Cattell)
• Devil Doll/Ring Pull (Jarl Olsen)
• Pack of Gifts (Corky Quakenbush)
• Stubble Trouble (Philip Holahan)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Sara Sugarman (Very Annie Mary)
• Lucrecia Martel (The Swamp)
• Rodrigo García (Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her)
• Mitsuhiko Yazaki (Go Heat Man!)

Freedom of Expression Award

• The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (Stanley Nelson)

Latin America Cinema Award

• Santitos (Alejandro Springall)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Laura Dern

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Slam (Marc Levin)
• 2by4 (Jimmy Smallhorne)
• Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (Tommy O'Haver)
• Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
• Hav Plenty (Christopher Scott Cherot)
• High Art (Lisa Cholodenko)
• How to Make the Cruelest Month (Kip Koenig)
• I Married a Strange Person! (Bill Plympton)
• Jerry and Tom (Saul Rubinek)
• Miss Monday (Benson Lee)
• Next Stop Wonderland (Brad Anderson)
• Once We Were Strangers (Emanuele Crialese)
• Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
• Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre)
• Under Heaven (Meg Richman)
• Wrestling with Alligators (Laurie Weltz)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• The Farm: Angola, USA (Liz Garbus, Jonathan Stack)
• Frat House (Todd Phillips)
• Beautopia (Katharina Otto-Bernstein)
• The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Penelope Spheeris)
• Divine Trash (Steve Yeager)
• Frank Lloyd Wright (Ken Burns)
• Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)
• Modulations (Iara Lee)
• Moment of Impact (Julia Loktev)
• Out of the Past (Jeff Dupre)
• Some Nudity Required (Odette Springer)
• Wild Man Blues (Barbara Kopple)
• Baby, It's You (Anne Makepeace)
• A Letter Without Words (Lisa Lewenz)
• Paulina (Vicky Funari)
• Slavegirls (Ellen Bruno)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Darren Aronofsky (Pi)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Julia Loktev (Moment of Impact)

Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic

• Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals)

Filmmakers Trophy Documentary

• Steve Yeager (Divine Trash)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Lisa Cholodenko (High Art)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Declan Quinn (2by4)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Tom Hurwitz (Wild Man Blues)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• Andrea Hart (Miss Monday)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Out of the Past (Jeff Dupre)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• Snake Feed (Debra Granik)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Human Remains (Jay Rosenblatt)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Fernando Pérez (Life Is to Whistle)
• DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter (Lift)
• Tomasz Wiszniewski (Tam, gdzie żyją Eskimosi)
• Yoshiyasu Fujita (The Bleep Brothers)

Freedom of Expression Award

• The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Penelope Spheeris)

Latin America Cinema Award

• Who the Hell Is Juliette? (Carlos Marcovich)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Frances McDormand

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter)
• All Over Me (Alex Sichel)
• Arresting Gena (Hannah Weyer)
• Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher)
• Colin Fitz (Robert Bella)
• The Delta (Ira Sachs)
• Eye of God (Tim Blake Nelson)
• George B. (Eric Lea)
• Going All the Way (Mark Pellington)
• The House of Yes (Mark Waters)
• Hurricane (Morgan J. Freeman)
• In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
• Love Jones (Theodore Witcher)
• The Myth of Fingerprints (Bart Freundlich)
• Santa Fe (Andrew Shea)
• Slaves to the Underground (Kristine Peterson)
• Strays (Vin Diesel)
• Black & White & Red All Over (DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy, Khari Streeter)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Girls Like Us (Tina Di Feliciantonio, Jane C. Wagner)
• An Act of Conscience (Robbie Leppzer)
• The Fight in the Fields (Rick Tejada-Flores, Ray Telles)
• A Healthy Baby Girl (Judith Helfand)
• John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk (St. Claire Bourne)
• Licensed to Kill (Arthur Dong)
• The Long Way Home (Mark Jonathan Harris)
• Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (Monte Bramer)
• Riding the Rails (Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys)
• Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick)
• Family Name (Macky Alston)
• Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (Laura Angelica Simon)
• My America... or Honk If You Love Buddha (Renee Tajima-Pena)
• New School Order (Gini Reticker)
• Poverty Outlaw (Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates)
• Hide and Seek (Su Friedrich)

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Morgan J. Freeman (Hurricane)

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

• Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill)

Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic

• Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men)

Filmmakers Trophy Documentary

• Arthur Dong (Licensed to Kill)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• James Lasdun, Jonathan Nossiter (Sunday)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Enrique Chediak (Hurricane)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Christine Choy (My America... or Honk If You Love Buddha)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Hurricane (Morgan J. Freeman)
• Love Jones (Theodore Witcher)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (Monte Bramer)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• Man About Town (Kris Isacsson)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Syphon Gun (K.C. Amos)
• Birdhouse (Rich Zim)

Freedom of Expression Award

• Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary (Laura Angelica Simon)
• Family Name (Macky Alston)

Latin America Cinema Award

• O Sertão das Memórias (José Araújo)

Latin America Cinema Award - Honorable Mention

• Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein)

Special Recognition for Superb Production Design

• Going All the Way (Thérèse DePrez)

Special Jury Recognition

• Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick)

Special Jury Recognition for Acting

• Parker Posey (The House of Yes)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Tim Robbins

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
• Bandwagon (John Schultz)
• Big Night (Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)
• Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (Christopher Munch)
• The Darien Gap (Brad Anderson)
• Female Perversions (Susan Streitfeld)
• Follow Me Home (Peter Bratt)
• Freeway (Matthew Bright)
• Girls Town (Jim McKay)
• God's Lonely Man (Francis von Zerneck)
• I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron)
• The Keeper (Joe Brewster)
• Late Bloomers (Julia Dyer)
• Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne)
• Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener)
• The Whole Wide World (Dan Ireland)
• Eden (Howard Goldberg)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan)
• The Battle Over Citizen Kane (Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon)
• Belly Talkers (Sandra Luckow)
• The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
• Cutting Loose (Susan Todd, Andrew Young)
• Fire on the Mountain (Beth Gage, George Gage)
• Hype! (Doug Pray)
• A Leap of Faith (Jenifer McShane, Tricia Regan)
• My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (Melissa Hacker)
• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
• Synthetic Pleasures (Iara Lee)
• Tender Fictions (Barbara Hammer)
• When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
• Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon)
• Halving the Bones (Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury)
• Jane: An Abortion Service (Kate Kirtz, Nell Lundy)

Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic

• Jim McKay (Girls Town)

Filmmakers Trophy Documentary

• Susan Todd, Andrew Young (Cutting Loose)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Joseph Tropiano, Stanley Tucci (Big Night)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Rob Sweeney (Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Andrew Young (Cutting Loose)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

• Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• The Spitfire Grill (Lee David Zlotoff)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan)

Jury Prize in U.S. Short Filmmaking

• A Small Domain (Britta Sjogren)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Pig! (Francine McDougall)
• Dry Mount (Nichol Simmons)

NHK Filmmaker Award

• Walter Salles (Central Station)
• Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals)
• Ciro Cappellari (Sin querer)
• Hirotaka Tashiro (Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar)

Cinema 100/Sundance International Award

• Ciro Cappellari
• Danian Tang
• Chris Eyre
• Walter Salles
• Hirotaka Tashiro

Freedom of Expression Award

• The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)

Latin America Cinema Award

• Madagascar (Fernando Pérez)

Latin America Cinema Award - Honorable Mention

• Guantanamera (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío)
• Caballos salvajes (Marcelo Piñeyro)

Special Jury Recognition

• When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)

Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Collaborative Merit

• Girls Town (Jim McKay)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Dianne Wiest

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

• The Young Poisoner's Handbook (Benjamin Ross)
• The Brothers McMullen (Edward Burns)
• Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
• Angela (Rebecca Miller)
• Coldblooded (Wallace Wolodarsky)
• Fall Time (Paul Warner)
• The Four Corners of Nowhere (Stephen Chbosky)
• The Girl in the Watermelon (Sergio M. Castilla)
• Heavy (James Mangold)
• Homage (Ross Kagan Marks)
• Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo)
• Naked Jane (Linda Kandel)
• New Jersey Drive (Nick Gomez)
• Parallel Sons (John G. Young)
• Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Mayer)
• Picture Bride (Kayo Hatta)
• Post Cards from America (Steve McLean)
• Rhythm Thief (Matthew Harrison)
• The Wife (Tom Noonan)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

• Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
• Black is... Black Ain't (Marlon Riggs)
• Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (Deborah Hoffmann)
• Ecological Design: Inventing the Future (Brian Danitz)
• Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (Don Was)
• Jupiter's Wife (Michel Negroponte)
• No Loans Today (Lisanne Skyler)
• Out of Ireland (Paul Wagner)
• Tie-died: Rock 'n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans (Andrew Behar)
• Unzipped (Douglas Keeve)
• Ballot Measure 9 (Heather MacDonald)
• El diablo nunca duerme (Lourdes Portillo)
• Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Meg Partridge)
• A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (Michelle Parkerson)
• Teen Dreams (Adawna, Frank Cardon, Charles Cooper, Peter Kinoy, La Traun Parker, Ilan Ziv)
• When Billy Broke His Head... and Other Tales of Wonder (Billy Golfus, David E. Simpson)

Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic

• Rebecca Miller (Angela)

Filmmakers Trophy Documentary

• Marlon Riggs (Black is... Black Ain't)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic

• Ellen Kuras (Angela)

Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary

• Maryse Alberti (Crumb)

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

• Picture Bride (Kayo Hatta)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

• Ballot Measure 9 (Heather MacDonald)
• Unzipped (Douglas Keeve)

Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention

• Tom's Flesh (Tom DiMaria, Jane C. Wagner)
• The Salesman and Other Adventures (Hannah Weyer)
• Nonnie & Alex (Todd Field)
• Trevor (Peggy Rajski)

Freedom of Expression Award

• When Billy Broke His Head... and Other Tales of Wonder (Billy Golfus, David E. Simpson)

Latin America Cinema Award - Honorable Mention

• Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío)
• Eagles Don't Hunt Flies (Sergio Cabrera)

Special Jury Recognition for a Short Film

• El héroe (Carlos Carrera)

Dramatic Special Jury Recognition for Directing

• James Mangold (Heavy)
• Matthew Harrison (Rhythm Thief)

Documentary Special Jury Recognition for Directing

• Michel Negroponte (Jupiter's Wife)

Tribute to Independent Vision Award

• Nicolas Cage