This is the list of the winners of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features.
Winners
YearWinnerDirector(s) Ref.1978 Girlfriends Claudia Weill The Whole Shootin' Match (second place) Eagle Pennell 1982 Circle of Power Bobby Roth 1983 Purple Haze David Burton Morris 1984 Old Enough Marisa Silver 1984 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org1985 Blood Simple Joel Coen 1986 Smooth Talk Joyce Chopra 1986 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org1987 The Trouble with Dick Gary Walkow 1987 Sundance Film Festival sundance.orgWaiting for the Moon Jill Godmilow 1988 Heat and Sunlight Rob Nilsson 1988 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1989 True Love Nancy Savoca 1989 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1990 Chameleon Street Wendell B. Harris Jr. 1990 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1991 Poison Todd Haynes 1991 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org1992 In the Soup Alexandre Rockwell 1992 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1993 Public Access Bryan Singer 1993 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org Ruby in Paradise Victor Nuñez 1994 What Happened Was... Tom Noonan 1994 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1995 The Brothers McMullen Edward Burns The Young Poisoner's Handbook Benjamin Ross 1996 Welcome to the Dollhouse Todd Solondz 1996 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1997 Sunday Jonathan Nossiter 1997 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1998 Slam Marc Levin 1998 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 1999 Three Seasons Tony Bui 1999 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 2000 Girlfight Karyn Kusama 2000 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan 2001 The Believer Henry Bean 2001 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 2002 Personal Velocity Rebecca Miller 2002 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org 2003 American Splendor Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini 2003 Sundance Film Festival , Sundance Institute Digital Archive. Accessed July 25, 2019. 2004 Primer Shane Carruth 2005 Forty Shades of Blue Ira Sachs 2006 Quinceañera Richard Glatzer 2007 Padre Nuestro Christopher Zalla 2008 Frozen River Courtney Hunt 2009 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Lee Daniels 2010 Winter's Bone Debra Granik 2011 Like Crazy Drake Doremus 2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin 2013 Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler 2014 Whiplash Damien Chazelle 2015 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Alfonso Gomez-Rejon 2016 The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker 2017 I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore Macon Blair 2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan 2019 Clemency Chinonye Chukwu 2020 Minari Lee Isaac Chung 2021 CODA Sian Heder 2022 Nanny Nikyatu Jusu 2023 A Thousand and One A.V. Rockwell 2024 In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio 2025 Atropia Hailey Gates 2026 Josephine Beth de Araújo
International winners 2005: The Hero 2006: 13 Tzameti 2007: Sweet Mud 2008: The King of Ping Pong 2009: The Maid 2010: Animal Kingdom 2011: Happy, Happy 2012: Violeta Went to Heaven 2013: Jiseul 2014: To Kill a Man 2015: Slow West 2016: Sand Storm 2017: The Nile Hilton Incident 2018: Butterflies 2019: The Souvenir 2020: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness 2021: Hive 2022: Utama 2023: Scrapper 2024: Sujo 2025: Cactus Pears 2026: Shame and Money
See also Palme d'Or Academy Award for Best Picture
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