The Sundance 2021 Film Festival Awards are being handed out right now.
I’m thrilled to report that “CODA” won the Special Jury Award for Best Film, and Clifton Collins Jr won Best Actor in the Special Jury Section. Apple paid $25 million for “CODA.” Sony Pictures Classics wisely scooped up “Jockey,” a film with huge potential. Congrats to Cliff Collins who has worked as a journeyman actor and now sees the fruits of his labors.
U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic
CODA
U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Summer of Soul, dir. Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
Directing Award – U.S. Dramatic
Coda, dir. Siân Heder
U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic
U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Summer of Soul, dir. Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
Directing Award – U.S. Dramatic
Coda, dir. Siân Heder
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic
On The Count of Three, Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
Natalia Almada, Users
Editing Award: U.S. Documentary
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award goes to Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno for Homeroom
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Awards
Ensemble Cast – the cast of Coda
Best Actor – Clifton Collins, Jr. for Jockey
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Awards
Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker goes to Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for Cusp
For Nonfiction Experimentation – All Light, Everywhere, dir. Theo Anthony
World Cinema Audience Awards
Documentary – Writing With Fire, dir.
Dramatic – Hive, dir. Blerta Basholli
Yllka Gashi appears in Hive by Blerta Basholli. Sundance
World Cinema Dramatic
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Hive, dir Blerta Basholli,
Jury Award for Acting goes to Jesmark Scicluna in Luzzu.
Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: One for the Road, dir. Baz Poonpiriya
Directing Award: Hive, dir Blerta Basholli.
Documentary
World Cinema Jury Prize – Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Directing Award: Hogir Hirori for Sabaya
Special Jury Award in Impact for Change — Writing With Fire, dir. Rintu Thomas
Special Jury Award in Verite Filmmaking —President, dir. Camilla Nielsson
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Audience Award – Ma Belle, My Beauty, dir. Marion Hill
Innovator Award – Cryptozoo, dir. Dash Shaw
Short Film
–Short Film Grand Jury Prize – Lizard, dir. Akinola Davies, Jr.
–Short Film Jury Award – U.S. Fiction – The Touch of the Master’s Hands, dir. Gregory Barnes
–Special Short Film Acting Award, Wiggle Room, Deanna Gibson
–Short Film Special Jury Award – Screenwriting, The Criminals, dir. Serhat Karasslan
–Short Film Special Jury Award, Animation – Souvenir Souvenir, dir. Bastien Dubois
–Short Film Jury Award Nonfiction – Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, dir. Topaz Jones and Rubberband
–Short Film Jury Award – International Fiction – Bambirak, dir. Zamarin Wahdat
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize
Sons of Monarch, dir. Alexis Gambis
Sundance Institute / Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing
–Fiction, Terilyn Shropshire
–Nonfiction, Juli Vizza
Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction:
Philly D.A., dir. Nicole Salazar
Sundance Institute NHK Award
Motherhood, dir. Meryam Joobeur
Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award
Rebecca Stover
