Grand Jury Prize Documentary

This is the list of the winners of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for documentary features since its first inception in 1982.^[1]

Winners

1980s

1982: Soldier Girls^[2]
1984: Style Wars^[3]^[4]^[5]
1985: Seventeen^[6]^[7]
1986: Private Conversations^[8]
1987: Sherman's March^[9]^[10]
1988: Beirut: The Last Home Movie^[11]
1989: For All Mankind^[12]

1990s

1990: H-2 Worker/Water and Power^[13]
1991: American Dream/Paris Is Burning^[14]^[15]
1992: A Brief History of Time/Finding Christa^[16]
1993: Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family/Silverlake Life: The View from Here^[17]
1994: Freedom on My Mind^[18]
1995: Crumb^[19]^[20]
1996: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern^[21]^[22]
1997: Girls Like Us^[23]
1998: The Farm: Angola, USA/Frat House^[24]
1999: American Movie^[25]

2000s

2000: Long Night's Journey into Day^[26]
2001: Southern Comfort^[27]
2002: Daughter from Danang^[28]
2003: Capturing the Friedmans^[29]
2004: Dig!^[30]
2005: Why We Fight^[31]
2006: God Grew Tired of Us
2007: Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
2008: Trouble the Water
2009: We Live in Public

2010s

2020s

2020: Boys State^[34]^[35]
2021: Summer of Soul^[36]^[37]
2022: The Exiles
2023: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project^[38]^[39]
2024: Porcelain War^[40]

International winners

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References

^ Timeline: Dance dance revolution - The Hollywood Reporter
^ Sundance Film Festival (1982) - IMDb
^ 1984 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ Pearce, Sheldon. "Style Wars Is Still the Defining Documentary of Early Hip-Hop Culture". Pitchfork.
^ Sundance Film Festival (1984) - IMDb
^ 1985 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ SEVENTEEN (Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, 1983) on Vimeo
^ 1986 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 1987 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ The 25 Best Sundance Movies of All-Time - Film School Rejects
^ 1988 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 1989 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 1990 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 1991 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ Paris Is Burning|FACETS
^ 1992 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 1993 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 'What Happened Was,' 'Freedom on My Mind' Win Top Honors at Sundance Festival|AP News
^ Marks, Laura U. (Spring 1995). "Drawing on the Edge of Madness - Terry Zwigoff's Crumb". FilmMag.com. Filmmaker Magazine. Archived from the original on May 24, 1997. Retrieved November 17, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)()
^ Sundance 1995 Award Winners". sundance.org. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
^ 1996 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ Festival Watch: Sundance Film Festival|International Documentary Association
^ 1997 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 1998 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 'American Movie' Turns Camera on Indie Filmmaker - Los Angeles Times
^ 2000 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 2001 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 2002 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ 2003 Sundance Film Festival Archived July 25, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Sundance Institute Digital Archive. Accessed July 25, 2019.
^ 2004 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
^ A Capraesque Nightmare: Eugene Jarecki Reveals Why We REALLY Fight|International Documentary Association
^ Sundance falls for another strong woman in Winter's Bone|Winter's Bone|The Guardian
^ Sundance film festival hands prizes to 'dark and grim' films|Sundance film festival|The Guardian
^ Hipes, Patrick (February 2, 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Awards: 'Minari' Scores Double Top Honors – The Complete Winners List".
^ Sundance Boosts Women Directors|Current|The Criterion Collection
^ Minsker, Evan (2 February 2021). "Questlove's Summer of Soul Documentary Wins Sundance 2021 Grand Jury Prize". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (February 2, 2021). "Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners List: CODA Takes U.S. Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
^ All the Winners of the 2023 Sundance Film Awards|A.frame
^ Sundance Film Festival Winners Announced - Variety
^ Olsen, Mark (January 26, 2024). "Sundance's top prizes go to 'In the Summers' and 'Porcelain War'". Los Angeles Times.

See also