In recent years, the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award go to the breakout hit of the festival. Last year it wasThe Birth of a Nation, in 2015 it wasMe and Earl and the Dying Girl, in 2014 it wasWhiplash, and so on. However, this year’s big breakout films—Call Me By Your NameandMudbound—weren’t in competition, and were therefore ineligible for awards.
Instead, the Grand Jury Prize in Dramatic Competition went to Macon Blair’s directorial debutI Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymoreand the Audience Award went toCrown Heights, and while neither is a bad movie, I don’t think either will get the buzz that something likeWhiplashreceived.
The good news is that when it comes toI Don’t Feel at Home in This Worldanymore, you won’t have to wait long to judge for yourself. The film is due to hit Netflix on February 24th, the smallest window there’s ever been between a film winning the top prize at Sundance and hitting general release.
Check out the full list of Sundance 2017 winners, and click on the respective links for our reviews and interviews where applicable.
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore(review)
Directing Award
Eliza Hittman,Beach Rats
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Ingrid Goes West
Matt Spicer, David Branson Smith (review,interview)
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director
Maggie Betts,Novitiate
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance
Chanté Adams,Roxanne Roxanne
Special Jury Award for Cinematography
The Yellow Birds(review)
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Peter Nicks,The Force(review)
The Orwell Award
Icarus(review)
Special Jury Award for Storytelling
Strong Island
Special Jury Award for Editing
Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking
U.S. Dramatic Audience Award
Crown Heights(review)
U.S. Documentary Audience Award
Chasing Coral
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
Sueño en Otro Idioma(I Dream in Another Language)
Mexico/Netherlands
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
The Nile Hilton Incident(review)
Sweden/Germany/Denmark
Special Jury Award for Directing
God’s Own Country
United Kingdom
Special Jury Award for Screenwriting
Singapore/Thailand
Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision
Free and Easy
Axolotl Overkill
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Last Men in Aleppo
Denmark/Syria
France/Netherlands/South Africa
Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Special Jury Award for Commanding Vision
Motherland
U.S.A./Philippines
India/Germany/Finland
OTHER AWARDS
Next Audience Award
The Short Film Grand Jury Prize
And so we put goldfish in the pool.
The Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
Lucia, Before and After
The Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye
Chile, U.S.A.
The Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction
The Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck
A Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Dadyaa — The Woodpeckers of Rotha
Nepal, France
A Short Film Special Jury Award for Editing
