Audience Award Documentary
This is the list of winners of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for documentary features.
Winners
1980s
- 1989: For All Mankind[1]
1990s
- 1990: Berkeley in the Sixties[2]
- 1991: American Dream
- 1992: Brother's Keeper
- 1993: Something Within Me
- 1994: Hoop Dreams[3][4][5][6]
- 1995: Ballot Measure 9 / Unzipped
- 1996: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern[7]
- 1997: Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
- 1998: Out of the Past
- 1999: Genghis Blues
2000s
- 2000: Dark Days
- 2001: Dogtown and Z-Boys / Scout's Honor
- 2002: Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
- 2003: My Flesh and Blood
- 2004: Born into Brothels[8][9]
- 2005: Murderball
- 2006: God Grew Tired of Us
- 2007: Hear and Now
- 2008: Fuel
- 2009: The Cove
2010s
- 2010: Waiting for "Superman"
- 2011: Buck
- 2012: The Invisible War
- 2013: Blood Brother
- 2014: Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
- 2015: Meru
- 2016: Jim: The James Foley Story
- 2017: Chasing Coral
- 2018: The Sentence
- 2019: Knock Down the House
2020s
- 2020: Crip Camp[10][11]
- 2021: Summer of Soul[12][13]
- 2022: Navalny
- 2023: Beyond Utopia[14]
- 2024: Daughters[15]
- 2025: André Is an Idiot[16]
International winners
- 2004: The Corporation
- 2006: No One
- 2007: In the Shadow of the Moon
- 2009: Afghan Star
- 2010: Waste Land
- 2011: Senna
- 2012: Searching for Sugar Man
- 2014: The Green Prince
- 2015: Dark Horse
- 2016: Sonita
- 2017: Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
- 2018: This Is Home
- 2019: Sea of Shadows
- 2020: The Reason I Jump
- 2021: Writing with Fire
- 2022: The Territory
- 2023: 20 Days in Mariupol
- 2024: Ibelin
- 2025: Prime Minister
References
- ^1989 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
- ^1990 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
- ^1994 Sundance Film FestivalArchived 2012-11-07 at the Wayback Machine sundance.org
- ^Hoop Dreams|Kartemquin Films
- ^20 best Sundance films of all time|The A.V. Club
- ^25 Movies That Defined The Sundance Film Festival - IndieWire
- ^Festival Watch: Sundance Film Festival|International Documentary Association
- ^2004 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
- ^'Primer' surprise grand winner at Sundance|TODAY
- ^Hipes, Patrick (February 2, 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Awards: 'Minari' Scores Double Top Honors – The Complete Winners List".
- ^Debruge, Peter (2020-02-02). "Sundance Winners: 'Minari' and 'Boys State' Take Top Honors". Variety. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- ^"2021 Sundance Film Festival Awards Announced". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^Minsker, Evan (2 February 2021). "Questlove's Summer of Soul Documentary Wins Sundance 2021 Grand Jury Prize". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ^Beyond Utopia review - breathlessly tense documentary follows escaping North Koreans|The Guardian
- ^The Complete List of 2024 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners|Sundance Film Festival
- ^D'Alessandro, Anthony (31 January 2025). "Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners List: 'Atropia' Wins U.S. Grand Jury Prize Dramatic". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
