Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

This is the list of the winners of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features.

Winners

Year	Winner	Director(s)	Ref.
1978	Girlfriends	Claudia Weill	[1][2]
	The Whole Shootin' Match (second place)	Eagle Pennell	[3]
1982	Circle of Power	Bobby Roth	[4]
1984	Old Enough	Marisa Silver	[5][6][7]
1985	Blood Simple	Joel Coen	[8][9]
1986	Smooth Talk	Joyce Chopra	[10][11]
1987	The Trouble with Dick	Gary Walkow	[12]
	Waiting for the Moon	Jill Godmilow	[7]
1988	Heat and Sunlight	Rob Nilsson	[13][7]
1989	True Love	Nancy Savoca	[14][7]
1990	Chameleon Street	Wendell B. Harris Jr.	[15][16]
1991	Poison	Todd Haynes	[17][18]
1992	In the Soup	Alexandre Rockwell	[19][7]
1993	Public Access	Bryan Singer	[20]
	Ruby in Paradise	Victor Nunez	[7]
1994	What Happened Was...	Tom Noonan	[21][22]
1995	The Brothers McMullen	Edward Burns	[23]
	The Young Poisoner's Handbook	Benjamin Ross	[24]
1996	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Todd Solondz	[25][26]
1997	Sunday	Jonathan Nossiter	[27][7]
1998	Slam	Marc Levin	[23][28]
1999	Three Seasons	Tony Bui	[29][7]
2000	Girlfight	Karyn Kusama	[30][31]
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan	[32][7]
2001	The Believer	Henry Bean	[33][34]
2002	Personal Velocity	Rebecca Miller	[35][7]
2003	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini	[36]
2004	Primer	Shane Carruth	[37]
2005	Forty Shades of Blue	Ira Sachs	[7]
2006	Quinceañera	Richard Glatzer	[38][7]
2007	Padre Nuestro	Christopher Zalla	[7]
2008	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt	[7][39]
2009	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	Lee Daniels	[40][41]
2010	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik	[42][39]
2011	Like Crazy	Drake Doremus	[7]
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin	[43][44]
2013	Fruitvale Station	Ryan Coogler	[45]
2014	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle	[46][7]
2015	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon	[7]
2016	The Birth of a Nation	Nate Parker	[7]
2017	I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore	Macon Blair	[7]
2018	The Miseducation of Cameron Post	Desiree Akhavan	[7][47]
2019	Clemency	Chinonye Chukwu	[7]
2020	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung	[48][49]
2021	CODA	Sian Heder	[50][51]
2022	Nanny	Nikyatu Jusu	[7][52]
2023	A Thousand and One	A.V. Rockwell	[7]
2024	In the Summers	Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio	[53][54]
2025	Atropia	Hailey Gates	[55]

International winners

• 2023: Scrapper
• 2024: Sujo
• 2025: Cactus Pears

See also

• Palme d'Or
• Academy Award for Best Picture