Sundance Film Festival 2019 Awards Winners: CLEMENCY, SHARE, THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, & More

Sundance Film Festival Awards 2019 Winners

Clemency, Share, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and the other winners of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Awards have been announced. The 35th 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.”

Sundance Film Festival Awards 2019 Winners

The full listing of the winners of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Awards:

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: Clemency, directed by Chinonye Chukwo

U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Brittany Runs a Marathon, directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo

U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Last Black Man in San Francisco, directed by Joe Talbot

U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Share, screenplay by Pippa Bianco

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft: Honeyboy, directed by Alma Har’el

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Collaboration: The Last Black Man in San Francisco,directed by Joe Talbot

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance: Rhianne Barreto, Share

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

U.S. Documentary Audience Award: Knock Down the House, directed by Rachel Lears

U.S. Documentary Directing Award: American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency: Always in Season, directed by Jacqueline Olive

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for an Emerging Filmmaker: Jawline, directed by Liza Mandelup

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing, Apollo 11, edited by Todd Douglas Miller

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Midnight Family, cinematographer Luke Lorentzen

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: The Souvenir, directed by Joanna Hogg

World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: Queen of Hearts, directed by May El-Toukhy

World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: The Sharks, directed by Lucia Gaibaldi

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Monos, directed by Alejandro Landes

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality: We Are Little Zombies, directed by Makoto Nagahisa

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Krystyna Janda, Dolce Fine Giornata

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Honeyland, directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: Sea of Shadows, directed by Richard Ladkani

World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Cold Case Hammarskjold, directed by Mads Brugger

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Midnight Traveler, directed by Hassan Fazili

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Honeyland, directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Honeyland, cinematographers Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma

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Audience Award: The Infiltrators, directed by Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarra

Innovator Award: The Infiltrators, directed by Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarra

SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS

Grand Jury Prize: Aziza, directed by Soudade Kaadan

U.S. Fiction: Green, directed by Suzanne Andrews Correa

International Fiction: Dunya’s Day, directed by Raed Alsemari

Non-fiction: Ghosts of Sugar Land, directed by Bassam Tariq

Animation: Reneepoptosis: directed by Renee Zhan

Special Jury Award: Honeyland, directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

Special Jury Prize for Directing: Fast Horse, directed by Alexandra Lazarowich

Special Jury Prize for Directing: The Minors, directed by Robert Machoian

Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Honeyland, cinematographers Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma

Special Jury Award for Originality: We Are Little Zombies, directed by Makoto Nagahisa

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