The Sundance Film Festival has begun unveiling its Jury and Audience Award winners for 2023.
Jurors present for the announcement, livestreamed to the festival’s social media channels from The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah, included Jeremy O. Harris and Marlee Matlin for U.S. Dramatic Competition, Ramona Diaz and Carla Gutierrez for U.S. Documentary Competition, Funa Maduka for World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and Madeleine Olnek for NEXT.
Deadline will update this story with the list of winners as they come in. The 2023 festival featured 111 features and 64 shorts, selected from 15,856 submissions, which were screened in Park City, Salt Lake City, and at the Sundance Resort. Over 75% of both short and feature-length works, along with many selected Indie Episodics, will be available for streaming via the fest’s online platform through January 29.
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Sundance’s first in-person festival since the Covid pandemic was marked by a number of major sales — most of which we were first to report on. The first title to lock in a huge deal was Chloe Domont’s thriller Fair Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, which went to Netflix for around $20MM. John Carney’s musical drama Flora and Son, starring Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, went to Apple for around the same, with Searchlight taking the improvised ensemble comedy Theater Camp for around $8 million. Mubi picked up Ira Sachs’ relationship drama Passages, with A24 in talks to acquire the buzzy Midnight title Talk to Me as of Tuesday.
Last year’s Sundance ceremony solidified the awards trajectory of four of five contenders for the Documentary Feature Oscar in 2023 — those titles being Navalny (Documentary Competition Audience Award, Festival Favorite Award), Fire of Love (Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award), All That Breathes (World Cinema Documentary Competition Documentary Prize) and A House Made of Splinters (World Cinema Documentary Competition Directing Award). The festival proved even more relevant to the awards race the year prior, with Sian Heder’s Best Picture Oscar winner CODA and Questlove’s Best Doc Winner Summer of Soul highlighting its finger on the pulse across both narrative and documentary.
View the winners’ list below.
SHORT FILMS AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize
When You Left Me On That Boulevard (U.S.A.)
Director: Kayla Abuda Galang
Jury Award: US Fiction
Rest Stop
Director: Crystal Kayiza
Jury Award: Directing, International
Valeria Hofmann
AliEN0089 (Chile)
Jury Award: Directing, US
Jarreau Carrillo
The Vacation
Jury Award: Animation
The Flying Sailor
Directors: Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis (Canada)
Jury Award: Nonfiction
Will You Look At Me (China)
Director: Shuli Huang
Jury Award: International Fiction
The Kidnapping of the Bride (Germany)
Director: Sophia Mocorrea
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize
Scrapper (UK)
Director: Charlotte Regan
Directing Award
Marija Kavtaradze
Slow (Lithuania/Spain/Sweden)
Special Jury Award: Creative Vision
Animalia (France/Morocco/Qatar)
Director: Sofia Alaoui
Special Jury Award: Cinematography
Lílis Soares
Mami Wata (Nigeria)
Special Jury Award: Best Performance
Rosa Marchant
When It Melts (Belgium/Netherlands)
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize
The Eternal Memory (Chile)
Director: Maite Alberdi
Directing Award
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonia/France/Ireland)
Director: Anna Hints
Special Jury Award: Verite Filmmaking
Against the Tide (India)
Director: Sarvnik Kaur
Special Jury Award: Creative Vision
Fantastic Machine (Sweden/Denmark)
Director: Axel Danielson
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNERS
Amazon Studios Nonfiction Award
Jess Devaney/Multitude Films
It’s Only Life After All, Milisuthando
Amazon Studios Fiction Award
Kara Durrett
The Starling Girl
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
The Pod Generation
Director: Sophie Barthes
Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award
Carlos Sanchez
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