The Sundance Movie Competition has begun unveiling its Jury and Viewers Award winners for 2023.
Jurors current for the announcement, livestreamed to the pageant’s social media channels from The Ray Theatre in Park Metropolis, Utah, included Jeremy O. Harris and Marlee Matlin for U.S. Dramatic Competitors, Ramona Diaz and Carla Gutierrez for U.S. Documentary Competitors, Funa Maduka for World Cinema Dramatic Competitors, and Madeleine Olnek for NEXT.
Deadline will replace this story with the record of winners as they arrive in. The 2023 pageant featured 111 options and 64 shorts, chosen from 15,856 submissions, which have been screened in Park Metropolis, Salt Lake Metropolis, and on the Sundance Resort. Over 75% of each quick and feature-length works, together with many chosen Indie Episodics, shall be obtainable for streaming by way of the fest’s on-line platform via January 29.
Sundance’s first in-person pageant because the Covid pandemic was marked by a lot of main gross sales — most of which we have been first to report on. The primary title to lock in an enormous deal was Chloe Domont’s thriller Truthful Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich, which went to Netflix for round $20MM. John Carney’s musical drama Flora and Son, starring Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, went to Apple for across the similar, with Searchlight taking the improvised ensemble comedy Theater Camp for round $8 million. Mubi picked up Ira Sachs’ relationship drama Passages, with A24 in talks to amass the buzzy Midnight title Discuss to Me as of Tuesday.
Final yr’s Sundance ceremony solidified the awards trajectory of 4 of 5 contenders for the Documentary Characteristic Oscar in 2023 — these titles being Navalny (Documentary Competitors Viewers Award, Competition Favourite Award), Fireplace of Love (Jonathan Oppenheim Modifying Award), All That Breathes (World Cinema Documentary Competitors Documentary Prize) and A Home Manufactured from Splinters (World Cinema Documentary Competitors Directing Award). The pageant proved much more related to the awards race the yr prior, with Sian Heder’s Finest Image Oscar winner CODA and Questlove’s Finest Doc Winner Summer season of Soul highlighting its finger on the heartbeat throughout each narrative and documentary.
View the winners’ record beneath.
FESTIVAL FAVORITE AWARD
Radical
Director: Christopher Zalla
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize
A Thousand And One
Director: A.V. Rockwell
Viewers Award
The Persian Model
Director: Maryam Keshavarz
Directing Award
Sing J. Lee
The Unintentional Getaway Driver
Jury Award: Artistic Imaginative and prescient
Journal Desires
Director: Elijah Bynum
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Maryam Keshavarz
The Persian Model
Particular Jury Award: Appearing
Lio Mehiel
Mutt
Jury Award: Ensemble
Theater Camp
Administrators: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Grand Jury Prize
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Mission
Administrators: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Viewers Award
Past Utopia
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Directing Award
Luke Lorentzen
A Nonetheless Small Voice
Particular Jury Award: Readability of Imaginative and prescient
The Stroll
Administrators: Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker
Particular Jury Award: Freedom of Expression
Unhealthy Press
Administrators: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
Jonathan Oppenheim Modifying Award
Daniela I. Quiroz
Going Varsity in Mariachi
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Viewers Award
20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine)
Director: Mstylav Chernov
Grand Jury Prize
The Everlasting Reminiscence (Chile)
Director: Maite Alberdi
Directing Award
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonia/France/Eire)
Director: Anna Hints
Particular Jury Award: Verite Filmmaking
In opposition to the Tide (India)
Director: Sarvnik Kaur
Particular Jury Award: Artistic Imaginative and prescient
Implausible Machine (Sweden/Denmark)
Director: Axel Danielson
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Viewers Award
Shayda (Australia)
Director: Noora Niasari
Grand Jury Prize
Scrapper (UK)
Director: Charlotte Regan
Directing Award
Marija Kavtaradze
Sluggish (Lithuania/Spain/Sweden)
Particular Jury Award: Artistic Imaginative and prescient
Animalia (France/Morocco/Qatar)
Director: Sofia Alaoui
Particular Jury Award: Finest Efficiency
Rosa Marchant
When It Melts (Belgium/Netherlands)
Particular Jury Award: Cinematography
Lílis Soares
Mami Wata (Nigeria)
NEXT
Viewers Award
Kokomo Metropolis
Director: D. Smith
Innovator Award
Kokomo Metropolis
Director: D. Smith
SHORT FILMS AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize
When You Left Me On That Boulevard (U.S.A.)
Director: Kayla Abuda Galang
Jury Award: US Fiction
Relaxation Cease
Director: Crystal Kayiza
Jury Award: Directing, Worldwide
Valeria Hofmann
AliEN0089 (Chile)
Jury Award: Directing, US
Jarreau Carrillo
The Trip
Jury Award: Animation
The Flying Sailor
Administrators: Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis (Canada)
Jury Award: Nonfiction
Will You Look At Me (China)
Director: Shuli Huang
Jury Award: Worldwide Fiction
The Kidnapping of the Bride (Germany)
Director: Sophia Mocorrea
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNERS
Alfred P. Sloan Characteristic Movie Prize
The Pod Technology
Director: Sophie Barthes
Amazon Studios Nonfiction Award
Jess Devaney
It’s Solely Life After All
Amazon Studios Fiction Award
Kara Durrett
The Starling Lady
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Modifying Nonfiction
Mary Manhardt
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Modifying Fiction
Troy Takaki
Sundance/NHK Award
Olive Nwosu
Woman
Sundance Institute | Stars Collective Creativeness Awards
Tamara Shogaolu
40 Acres
Navid Khonsari, Vassiliki Khonsari, and Andres Perez-Duarte
Block Occasion Bodega
Vanessa Keith
Yr 2180
Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award
Carlos Sanchez
