Sundance Film Festival Awards: ‘In The Summers’, ‘Didi’, ‘Daughters’ Top Winners List

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony revealed winners Friday honoring the best of this year’s lineup in Park City.

Winners of juried prizes were announced across five Sundance competition sections: U.S. Dramatic Competition, U.S. Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition, World Cinema Documentary Competition and the Next lineup.

See the full list of winners below.

This year’s juries are comprised of Debra Granik, Adrian Tomine, and Lena Waithe (U.S. Dramatic Competition); Shane Boris, Nicole Newnham and Rudy Valdez (U.S. Documentary Competition); Anita Gou, Mira Nair and Rui Poças (World Cinema Dramatic Competition); Mandy Chang, Monica Hellström and Shaunak Sen (World Cinema Documentary Competition) and Zal Batmanglij (Next).

Earlier in the week, the festival handed out its Alfred P, Sloan Science-In-Film Initiative’s feature film prize to Love Me, the U.S. Dramatic Competition pic written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero. Set in a post-human world, it centers on a love story between two AI-driven objects — an ocean buoy and a space satellite — voiced by Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun.

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On Wednesday, the festival revealed its short film honorees, with the Grand Jury Prize going to Alex Lora Cercos’ The Masterpiece from Spain. The shorts lineup comprising 53 films was judged by a jury featuring Christina Oh, Danny Pudi and Charlotte Regan.

Last year, the top winners included The Persian Version, which claimed the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in U.S. Dramatic Competition, and A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One which took the Grand Jury Prize in the same section. Other winners included Radical, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Beyond Utopia and Kokomo City.

See the full list of 2024 winners below.

Sundance Film Festival 2024 winners

Grand Jury Prizes

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

In the Summers

dir: Alessandra Lacorazza

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

Porcelain War

dir. Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev,

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

Sujo

dir. Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

A New Kind of Wilderness

dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

A Real Pain

Writer: Jesse Eisenberg

NEXT Innovator Award

Little Death

dir. Jack Begert

Festival Favorite Award

Daughters

dir. Angela Patton, Natalie Rae

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary

Daughters

dir. Angela Patton, Natalie Rae

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic

Didi

dir. Sean Wang

Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary

Ibelin

dir. Director: Benjamin Ree

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic

Girls Will Be Girls

dir. Shuchi Talati

Audience Award: NEXT

Kneecap

dir. Rich Peppiatt

Special Jury Awards

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft

Nocturnes

Dir. Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

dir. Johan Grimonprez

Special Jury Award for NEXT presented by Adobe

Desire Lines

dir. Jules Rosskam

JURY AWARDS FOR DIRECTING, SCREENWRITING & EDITING

Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary

Ibelin

dir. Benjamin Ree

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary

Sugarcane

dir. Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic

In the Summers

dir: Alessandra Lacorazza

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic

In the Land of Brothers

dir. Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary

Frida

dir. Carla Gutiérrez

Special Jury Awards

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Original Music

Handling the Undead

Composer: Peter Raeburn

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting

Union

dir. Stephen Maing, Brett Story

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance

Nico Parker

Suncoast

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble

Didi

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Sound

Gaucho Gaucho

dir. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

Short Films

Grand Jury Prize

The Masterpiece (Spain)

Dir: Alex Lora Cercos

Jury Award: U.S. Fiction

Say Hi After You Die (U.S.)

Dir: Kate Jean Hollowell

Jury Award: International Fiction

The Stag (Taiwan)

Dir: An Chu

Jury Award: Nonfiction

Bob’s Funeral (U.S.)

Dir: Jack Dunphy

Jury Award: Animation

Bug Diner (U.S.)

Dir: Phoebe Jane Hart

Special Jury Prize for Directing

The Looming (U.S.)

Dir: Masha Ko

Pisko the Crab Child is in Love (Japan)

Dir: Makoto Nagahisa

Alfred P. Sloan Science-In-Film Initiative

Feature Film Award

Love Me (U.S.)

Dir: Sam and Andy Zuchero