Though this year's Sundance Film Festival was forced to pivot last minute and go virtual — forgoing its usual Park City stomping grounds for the World Wide Web — the festival was certainly not lacking in must-see movies. This year’s program included buzzy comedies starring Emma Thompson and Regina Hall, Amy Poehler's documentary about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, and many, many more!
On Friday, Sundance announced its 2022 Award Winners via Twitter. After last year's history-making awards — in which CODA swept the top categories — the festival spread the love out this time: Nikyatu Jusu's debut feature Nanny won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize, while writer-director Cooper Raiff's Cha Cha Real Smooth took home the Audience Award.
Check out the full list of winners:
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Nanny
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
The Exiles
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic
Jamie Dack, Palm Trees and Power Lines
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
Reid Davenport, I Didn't See You There
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic
K.D. Dávila, Emergency
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble
892 (John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington and Selenis Leyva)
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision
Bradley Rust Gray, Blood
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary
Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput, Fire of Love
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision
Descendant
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change
Aftershock
Festival Favorite Award
Navalny
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
Navalny
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Girl Picture
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
The Territory
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
All That Breathes
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary
Simon Lereng Wilmont, A House Made of Splinters
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking
Midwives
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft
The Territory
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Utama
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Maryna Er Gorbach, Klondike
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting
Teresa Sánchez, Dos Estaciones
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit
Martika Ramirez Escobar, Leonor Will Never Die
Audience Award: NEXT
Chase Joynt, Framing Agnes
NEXT Innovator Award
Chase Joynt, 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
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
Warsha
Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction
Displaced
Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Night Bus
Short Film Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
Short Film Special Jury Award: Screenwriting
Stranger Than Rotterdam With Sara Driver
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
After Yang
Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award: Fiction
Amanda Marshall, God's Country
Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award: Nonfiction
Su Kim, Free Chol Soo Lee
Sundance Institute NHK Award
Hasan Hadi, The President's Cake
Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction
Dody Dorn
Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction
Toby Shimin
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