Sundance Film Festival 2017 Awards: Winners – BEACH RATS, CROWN HEIGHTS, NOVITIATE
2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners
Beach Rats, Crown Heights, Novitiate, and the other winners of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards have been announced. The 33rd Annual Sundance Film Festival Awards are the “culmination of the Sundance Film Festival…The competition juries, comprised of individuals from the worldwide film community with original and diverse points of view, select films from both the documentary and dramatic categories to receive a range of awards. Decided by Festivalgoers’ ballots, Audience Awards are bestowed upon films in each of the Festival’s four competition categories.”
This year’s Sundance Film Festival has come to a close. Numerous films stood out this year but very few were awards recognition by judges and audience members. I don’t’ feel at home in this world anymore won the Dramatic U.S. Grand Jury Prize. Beach Rats took home the U.S. Dramatic award for Directing at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Dina was awarded the Documentary U.S. Grand Jury Prize.
Audience members had other ideas as to whom should be awarded recognition at the 33th annual Sundance Film Festival. Crown Heights won the Dramatic U.S. Audience Award. Chasing Coral was awarded the Documentary U.S. Audience Award.
The full listing of the winners of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards:
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Dina, directed by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
I don’t’ feel at home in this world anymore, directed by Macon Blair
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
The Force, directed by Peter Nicks
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic
Beach Rats, directed by Eliza Hittman
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award Cinematography
The Yellow Birds, cinematography by Daniel Landin
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance
Chanté Adams for Roxanne Roxanne
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director
Novitiate, directed by Maggie Betts
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic to…”
Ingrid Goes West, written by Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for inspirational filmmaking
STEP, directed by Amanda Lipitz
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing
Unrest, edited by Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling
Strong Island, directed by Yance Ford
The Orwell Award
ICARUS, directed by Bryan Fogel
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, directed by Joe Piscatella
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language), directed by Ernesto Contreras
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
Chasing Coral, directed by Jeff Orlowski
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic
Crown Heights, directed by Matt Ruskin
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Axolotl Overkill, cinematography by Manu Dacosse
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision
Free and Easy, directed by Jun Geng
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenplay
Pop Aye, written by Kirsten Tan
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
God’s Own Country, directed by Francis Lee
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
The Nile Hilton Incident, directed by Tarik Saleh
NEXT Audience Award Presented by Adobe goes to:
Gook, directed by Justin Chon
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography
Machines, cinematography by Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Commanding Vision:
Motherland, directed by Ramona S. Diaz
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World, directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary
WINNIE, directed by Pascale Lamche
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Last Men in Aleppo, directed by Steen Johannessen and Firas Fayyad
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
Marjorie Prime, directed by Michael Almereyeda
Sundance Institute Global Filmmaking Awards
From Iran, Massoud Bakhshi for Yalda.
From France, Maimouna Doucoure for Mignonnes.
From Brazil, Fernando Coimbra for The Hanged.
From Poland, Agnieszka Smoczynska for Deranged.
Sundance Institute / NHK Award
Babak Anvari, from the UK, for I Came By.
Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producer Award for Documentary Feature Producer
Joslyn Barnes for Strong Island
Award for Narrative Feature Producer
Anish Savjani and Neill Kopp for I don’t feel at home in this world anymore
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