‘Minari,’ ‘Boys State’ Win Sundance Film Festival’s Top Jury Awards

The narrative feature “Minari” and the documentary “Boys State” have won the top prizes from the U.S. jury at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, which announced its winners at an awards ceremony on Saturday night. “Minari” also won the audience award.

In the World Cinema section, the winners were the documentary “Epicentro” and the narrative feature “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness.”

Other winners included “Crip Camp,” “Identifying Features,” “Cuties” and “I Carry You With Me.”

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The complete list of winners:

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, “Boys State”
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Hubert Sauper, “Epicentro”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Massoud Bakhshi, “Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness”

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, “Crip Camp”
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic: Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary : Jerry Rothwell, “The Reason I Jump”
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic: Fernanda Valadez, “Identifying Features” (“Sin Señas Particulares”)
Audience Award: NEXT, Presented by Adobe: Heidi Ewing, “I Carry You With Me”

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary: Garrett Bradley, “Time”
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic: Radha Blank, “The 40-Year-Old Version”
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary: Iryna Tsilyk, “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic: Maïmouna Doucouré, “Cuties”
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic: Edson Oda, “Nine Days”
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: the cast of “Charm City Kings”
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Auteur Filmmaking: Josephine Decker, “Shirley”
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Neo-Realism: Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Tyler H. Walk, “Welcome to Chechnya”
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling: Kirsten Johnson, “Dick Johnson Is Dead”
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Arthur Jones, “Feels Good Man”
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres, “The Fight”

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World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Ben Whishaw, “Surge”
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Visionary Filmmaking: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, “This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection”
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay: Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, “Identifying Features” (“Sin Señas Particulares”)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling: Benjamin Ree, “The Painter and the Thief “
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Mircea Topoleanu and Radu Ciorniciuc, “Acasa, My Home”
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Mila Aung-Thwin, Sam Soko, and Ryan Mullins, “Softie”
NEXT Innovator Prize: Heidi Ewing, “I Carry You With Me”

Jury Prize: “So What If The Goats Die”
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: “Ship: A Visual Poem”
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: “The Devil’s Harmony”
Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: “John Was Trying to Contact Aliens”
Short Film Jury Award: Animation: “Daughter”
Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting: “Exam”
Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing: “Valerio’s Day Out”
2020 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented to an outstanding feature film about science or technology: “Tesla”
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Documentary Features: Diane Becker and Melanie Miller, “Whirlybird”
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Narrative Features: Huriyyah Muhammad, “Farewell Amor”
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Documentary: Carla Gutierez
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Narrative: Affonso Gonçalves.
Sundance Institute | NHK Award: Kirsten Tan, “Higher”

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