List of Sundance Film Festival award winners

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The following includes a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival.[1]

1980s

1984

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1985

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1986

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1987

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Waiting for the Moon
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Trouble with Dick
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Sherman's March
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – No Picnic
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Chile: When Will It End?
  • Special Jury Recognition – Working Girls
  • Special Jury Recognition – River's Edge
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Chile: When Will It End?
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality – Sullivan's Pavilion

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1988

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1989

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1990s

1990

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1991

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1992

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – In the Soup
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – A Brief History of Time
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Finding Christa
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Zebrahead
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – A Brief History of Time
  • Audience Award Dramatic – The Waterdance
  • Audience Award Documentary – Brother's Keeper
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Swoon
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Shoot for the Contents
  • Special Jury Recognition – The Hours and Times
  • Special Jury Recognition – My Crasy Life
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Seymour Cassel for his performance in In the Soup
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Waterdance
  • Piper-Heidseick Award for Independent Vision – John Turturro

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1993

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1994

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1995

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1996

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1997

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1998

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1999

  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Movie
  • Audience Award Documentary – Genghis Blues
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Three Seasons
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Rabbit in the Moon
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Judy Berlin
  • Directing Award Documentary – Regret to Inform
  • Freedom of Expression Award – The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Joe the King (tie)
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Guinevere (tie)
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Run Lola Run (tie)
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Train of Life (tie)
  • Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Tumbleweeds
  • Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Stubble Trouble
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Come unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – A Pack of Gifts, Now
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Atomic Tabasco
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Devil Doll/Ring Pull
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Little Saints
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – More
  • Special Jury Prize – On the Ropes
  • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Life is to Whistle
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Happy, Texas
  • Special Jury Prize for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking – Treasure Island
  • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Laura Dern

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2000s

2000

  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Long Night's Journey into Day
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Girlfight & You Can Count on Me (tie)
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Girlfight
  • Directing Award Documentary – Paragraph 175
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – You Can Count on Me
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Dark Days
  • Audience Award Documentary – Dark Days
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Two Family House
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Americanos: Latino Life in The United States
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Dark Days
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Committed
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Saving Grace
  • Special Jury Prize for Artistic Achievement – The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
  • Special Jury Prize for Writing – George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
  • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – The Tao of Steve
  • Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast – Songcatcher
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Herod's Law
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Five Feet High and Rising
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – G.
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – No One Writes to the Colonel
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Darling International
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Bats
  • Piper-Heidsieck tribute to Independent Vision – Kevin Spacey

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2001

  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Southern Comfort
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Believer
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Audience Award Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys & Scout's Honor
  • Directing Award Documentary – Dogtown and Z-Boys
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Scout's Honor
  • World Cinema Audience Award – The Road Home
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – The Deep End
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Memento
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – In the Bedroom
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Children Underground
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Possible Loves
  • Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Sin Dejar Huella (English title Without a Trace)
  • Special Jury Prize Latin American Cinema – Coffin Joe - The Strange World Of José Mojica Marins
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Gina, An Actress, Age 29
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Delusions in Modern Primitivism
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Jigsaw Venus
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Metropopular
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Pie Fight '69
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Sweet
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Zen and the Art of Landscaping
  • Piper-Heidsieck Award – Julianne Moore

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2002

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2003

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Dopamine
  • Audience Award Documentary – My Flesh and Blood
  • Audience Award Dramatic – The Station Agent
  • Directing Award Dramatic – thirteen
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Stevie
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Quattro Noza
  • Freedom of Expression Award – What I Want My Words to Do to You
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Capturing the Friedmans
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – American Splendor
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Ocularist
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Planets
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Pan with Us
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Freak
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Asylum
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Fits & Starts
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Earthquake
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – From the 104th Floor
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Terminal Bar
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – One
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Broken Saints
  • Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking – S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse
  • Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – LOR
  • Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Icarus of Pittsburgh
  • Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bumble Beeing
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – The Station Agent
  • World Cinema Audience Award – Whale Rider

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2004

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Primer
  • Audience Award Documentary – Born into Brothels
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Maria Full of Grace
  • Directing Award Documentary – Super Size Me
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Down to the Bone
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Imelda
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – November
  • Freedom of Expression Award – Repatriation
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Dig!
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Primer
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Curtis
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Harvie Krumpet
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Krumped
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Papillon D’Amour
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Spokane
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – When the Storm Came
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Gowanus, Brooklyn
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Tomo
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking – Strangers by Erez Tadmor
  • Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Drum Machine
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking – Wet Dreams and False Images
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking Animation – Bathtime in Clerkenwell
  • Online Film Festival Jury Award Short Filmmaking New Forms – The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Texas Upgringing
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Farmingville
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Brother to Brother
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Vera Farmiga for her performance in Down to the Bone
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Larry Gross for We Don't Live Here Anymore
  • World Cinema Audience Award Documentary – The Corporation
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Seducing Doctor Lewis

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2005

  • Special Jury Prize for Editing – Murderball
  • Audience Award Documentary – Murderball
  • Audience Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
  • Directing Award Documentary – Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Education of Shelby Knox
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Why We Fight
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Forty Shades of Blue
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – One Weekend A Month
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Small Town Secrets
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Victoria Para Chino
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Tama Tu
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Family Portrait
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Wasp
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – After Innocence
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Amy Adams in Junebug
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know
  • Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Rian Johnson director of Brick
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Shape of the Moon
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Hero
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Brothers
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Liberace of Baghdad
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Wall
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Forest For the Trees
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid

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2006

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2007

  • 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Dark Matter
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Hear and Now
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Grace Is Gone
  • Directing Award Documentary – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
  • Editing Award Documentary – Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for Nanking
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Benoît Debie for Joshua
  • Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
  • Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Padre Nuestro
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Death to the Tinman
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – t.o.m.
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand)
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Spitfire 944
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – Motodrom
  • Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking – The Fighting Cholitas
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Everything Will Be OK
  • Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – The Tube With a Hat
  • Special Jury Prize: Documentary – No End in Sight
  • Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Freeheld
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Jess Weixler in Teeth
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind
  • Special Jury Prize for Singularity of Vision Dramatic – Chris Smith, director of The Pool
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic – James C. Strouse for Grace Is Gone
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – In the Shadow of the Moon
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Once
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Enemies of Happiness
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – Sweet Mud
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Hot House
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – L' Héritage (The Legacy)

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2008

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2009

  • 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Adam
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Audience Award: Documentary – The Cove
  • Directing Award Dramatic – Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre
  • Directing Award Documentary – Natalia Almada for El General
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Adriano Goldman for Sin Nombre
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Bob Richman for The September Issue
  • Editing Award Documentary – Karen Schmeer for Sergio
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – We Live in Public
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Omelette
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Jerrycan
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Western Spaghetti
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – I Live in the Woods
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Love You More
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Protect You + Me.
  • Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking – Treevenge
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Short Term 12
  • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking – Lies
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Good Hair
  • Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence – Humpday
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting – Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic – Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi for Paper Heart
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Afghan Star
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – An Education
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – John Maringouin for Big River Man
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – John De Borman for An Education
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Havana Marking for Afghan Star
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros for Burma VJ
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Rough Aunties
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Maid (La Nana)
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Guy Hibbert for Five Minutes of Heaven
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Tibet in Song
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting – Catalina Saavedra for The Maid (La Nana)
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality – Louise-Michel

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2010s

2010

  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Obselidia
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – happythankyoumoreplease
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Waiting for "Superman"
  • Best of NEXT – Homewrecker (2010 film)
  • Directing Award Documentary – Smash His Camera
  • Directing Award Dramatic – 3 Backyards
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Obselidia
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Oath
  • Editing Award Documentary – Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Restrepo
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Winter's Bone
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Born Sweet
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Can We Talk?
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – How I Met Your Father
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Quadrangle
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Rob and Valentyna in Scotland
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Young Love
  • Jury Prize International Short Filmmaking – The Six Dollar Fifty Man
  • Jury Prize Short Filmmaking – Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln
  • Special Jury Prize Documentary – Gasland
  • Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Sympathy for Delicious
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Winter's Bone
  • World Cinema Audience Award Documentary – Waste Land
  • World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Undertow
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award Documentary – His & Hers
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award Dramatic – The Man Next Door
  • World Cinema Directing Award Documentary – Space Tourists
  • World Cinema Directing Award Dramatic – Southern District
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – A Film Unfinished
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – The Red Chapel (Det Røde Kapel)
  • World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – Animal Kingdom
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award – Southern District
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Enemies of the People
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting – Grown Up Movie Star

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2011

  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – How to Die in Oregon
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Like Crazy
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Hell and Back Again
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic – Happy, Happy
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Buck
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Circumstance
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Senna
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Kinyarwanda
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – to.get.her
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – James Marsh for Project Nim
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Sam Levinson for Another Happy Day
  • World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award – Erez Kav-El for Restoration
  • Documentary Editing Award – Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Curry for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist for The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Eric Strauss, Ryan Hill and Peter Hutchens for The Redemption of General Butt Naked
  • Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Bradford Young for Pariah
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Danfung Dennis for Hell and Back Again
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Diego F. Jimenez for All Your Dead Ones
  • World Dramatic Special Jury Prizes for Breakout Performances – Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize – Position Among the Stars
  • Documentary Special Jury Prize – Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
  • Dramatic Special Jury Prize – Another Earth
  • Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance – Felicity Jones for Like Crazy
  • Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Brick Novax Pt 1 and 2
  • International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Deeper Than Yesterday
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Choke
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Diarchy
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – The External World
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – The Legend of Beaver Dam
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Out of Reach
  • Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Protoparticles
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Another Earth
  • Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Bogdan Mustata of Romania for Wolf, Ernesto Contrera of Mexico for I Dream In Another Language, Seng Tat Liew of Malaysia for In What City Does It Live?, and Talya Lavie of Israel for Zero Motivation
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer

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2012

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2013

  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Fruitvale (retitled Fruitvale Station)
  • U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Blood Brother
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Jiseul
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – A River Changes Course
  • Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura – Fruitvale (retitled Fruitvale Station)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura – Blood Brother
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Metro Manila
  • Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary – The Square
  • Audience Award: Best of NEXT – This Is Martin Bonner
  • Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic – Afternoon Delight
  • Directing Award: U. S. Documentary – Cutie and the Boxer
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Crystal Fairy
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear
  • Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic – Ain't Them Bodies Saints
  • Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic – Mother of George
  • Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary – Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
  • Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Lasting
  • Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary – Who Is Dayani Cristal?
  • U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking – Inequality for All
  • U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking – American Promise
  • U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
  • U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design – Shane Carruth & Johnny Marshall, Upstream Color
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award – Circles
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit – Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
  • Editing Award: U. S. Documentary – Gideon's Army
  • Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Summit
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – In a World...
  • Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Wajma (An Afghan Love Story)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Computer Chess
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Whistle
  • Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – Whiplash
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Date
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – Skinningrove
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Irish Folk Furniture
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Joel Nagle, Palimpsest
  • Short Film Special Jury Award – Kahlil Joseph, Until the Quiet Comes
  • Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube – Catnip: Egress to Oblivion

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2014

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2015

  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Robert Eggers for The Witch
  • Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Brandon Trost for The Diary of a Teenage Girl
  • Editing Award: Dramatic – Lee Haugen for Dope
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Tim Talbott for The Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Special Jury Prize for Collaborative Vision: Dramatic – Jennifer Phang and Jacqueline Kim for Advantageous
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Wolfpack by Crystal Moselle
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land
  • Cinematography Award: Documentary – Matthew Heineman and Matt Porwoll for Cartel Land
  • Special Jury Prize for Breakout First Feature: Documentary – Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe for (T)error
  • Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – Western by Bill and Turner Ross
  • Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – 3½ Minutes by Marc Silver
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West by John Maclean
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Alantė Kavaitė for The Summer of Sangailé
  • World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Germain McMicking for Partisan
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic – Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting: Dramatic – Jack Reynor for Glassland
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Russian Woodpecker by Chad Gracia
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Kim Longinotto for Dreamcatcher
  • World Cinema Editing Award: Documentary – Jim Scott for How to Change the World
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Impact: Documentary – Pervert Park by Frida and Lasse Barkfors
  • World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Unparalleled Access: Documentary – The Chinese Mayor by Hao Zhou
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Meru by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Umrika by Prashant Nair
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Dark Horse by Louise Osmond
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – James White by Josh Mond
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow by Don Hertzfeldt
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket by Paul Cabon
  • Short Film Jury Award: International – Oh Lucy! by Atsuko Hirayanagi
  • Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul by Kitty Green
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF by Frankie Shaw
  • Special Jury Prize for Acting: Short Filmmaking – Laure Calamy for Back Alley by Cécile Ducrocq
  • Special Jury Prize for Visual Poetry: Short Filmmaking – Object by Paulina Skibińska
  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment

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2016

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2017

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2018

2019

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2020s

2020

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2021

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – CODA (Siân Heder)
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Hive (Blerta Basholli)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
  • Audience Award: U.S.Dramatic – CODA (Siân Heder)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Summer of Soul (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Hive (Blerta Basholli)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Writing with Fire (Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Ma Belle, My Beauty (Marion Hill)
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Siân Heder for CODA
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Natalia Almada for Users
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Blerta Basholli for Hive
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Hogir Hirori for Sabaya
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch for On the Count of Three
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno for Homeroom
  • NEXT Innovator Award - Dash Shaw for Cryptozoo
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The cast of CODA
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Best Actor - Clifton Collins Jr. for Jockey
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Emerging Filmmaker - Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for Cusp
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Nonfiction Experimentation - Theo Anthony for All Light, Everywhere
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Vérité Filmmaking - Camilla Nielsson for President
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change - Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh for Writing with Fire
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting - Jesmark Scicluna for Luzzu
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision - Baz Poonpiriya for One for the Road
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize - Lizard
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction - The Touch of the Master's Hand
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - Bambirak
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction - Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation - Souvenir Souvenir
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting - Wiggle Room
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting - The Criminals
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Son of Monarchs
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction - Nicole Salazar for Philly D.A.
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction - Natalie Qasabian for Run
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction - Juli Vizza
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction - Terilyn Shropshire
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award - Meryam Joobeur for Motherhood

Source:[44]

2022

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu)
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Exiles (Ben Klein and Violet Columbus)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
  • Festival Favorite – Navalny (Daniel Roher)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Navalny (Daniel Roher)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Territory (Alex Pritz)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Jamie Dack for Palm Trees and Power Lines
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Reid Davenport for I Didn't See You There
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Maryna Er Gorbach for Klondike
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Simon Lereng Wilmont for A House Made of Splinters
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – K.D. Dávila for Emergency
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput for Fire of Love
  • NEXT Innovator Award – Chase Joynt for Framing Agnes
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of 892
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision – Bradley Rust Gray for blood
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Margaret Brown for Descendant
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change – Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee for Aftershock
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Teresa Sánchez for Dos Estaciones
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit – Martika Ramirez Escobar for Leonor Will Never Die
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing for Midwives
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft – Alex Pritz for The Territory
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Headhunter's Daughter
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – If I Go Will They Miss Me
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Warsha
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Displaced
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Night Bus
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – After Yang
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Su Kim for Free Chol Soo Lee
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Amanda Marshall for God's Country
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Toby Shimin
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Dody Dorn
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Hasan Hadi for The President's Cake

Source:[45]

2023

  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell)
  • U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Competition – Scrapper (Charlotte Regan)
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Competition – The Eternal Memory (Maite Alberdi)
  • Festival Favorite – Radical (Christopher Zalla)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Persian Version (Maryam Keshavarz)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Beyond Utopia (Madeleine Gavin)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Shayda (Noora Niasari)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Kokomo City (D. Smith)
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Sing J. Lee for The Accidental Getaway Driver
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Luke Lorentzen for A Still Small Voice
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Marija Kavtaradze for Slow
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Anna Hints for Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Maryam Keshavarz for The Persian Version
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – Daniela I. Quiroz for Going Varsity in Mariachi
  • NEXT Innovator Award – D. Smith for Kokomo City
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Theater Camp
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – The creative team of Magazine Dreams
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Lío Mehiel for Mutt
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision – The Stroll
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression – Bad Press
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Fantastic Machine
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence in Verité Filmmaking – Against the Tide
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Sofia Alaoui for Animalia
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematography – Lílis Soares for Mami Wata
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – When You Left Me On That Boulevard
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Rest Stop
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Kidnapping of the Bride
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Will You Look At Me
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – The Flying Sailor
  • Short Film Special Jury Award, International: Directing – AliEN0089
  • Short Film Special Jury Award, U.S.: Directing – The Vacation
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Pod Generation
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Jess Devaney for It’s Only Life After All
  • Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Kara Durrett for The Starling Girl
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Mary Manhardt
  • Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Troy Takaki
  • Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Olive Nwosu for Lady

Source:[46]

2024

The following awards were given out:[47]

  • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio)
  • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev)
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez)
  • World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness (Silje Evensmo Jacobsen)
  • Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos)
  • Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
  • World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
  • NEXT – Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
  • World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for FRIDA
  • NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union (Stephen Maing and Brett Story)
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes
  • NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines
  • Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming
  • Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love
  • U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die (Kate Jean Hollowell)
  • International Fiction: The Stag (An Chu)
  • Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral (Jack Dunphy)
  • Animation: Bug Diner (Phoebe Jane Hart)
  • NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die
  • Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin
  • Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani
  • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions
  • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Love Me

2025

2026

The following awards were given out:[51]

  • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic – Josephine (Beth de Araújo)
  • Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary – Nuisance Bear (Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman)
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Shame and Money (Visar Morina)
  • World Cinema Documentary – To Hold a Mountain (Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić)
  • NEXT Innovator Award – The Incomer (Louis Paxton)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Josephine (Beth de Araújo)
  • Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (David Alvarado)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με) (Myrsini Aristidou)
  • Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – One In A Million (Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes)
  • Audience Award: NEXT – Aanikoobijigan (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil)
  • Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Josef Kubota Wladyka for Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!
  • Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – J.M. Harper for Soul Patrol
  • World Cinema Dramatic – Andrius Blaževičius for How to Divorce During the War
  • World Cinema Documentary – Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes for One In A Million
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Liz Sargent for Take Me Home
  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Matt Hixon for Barbara Forever
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature – Bedford Park (Stephanie Ahn)
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast – The Friend’s House is Here
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence – Who Killed Alex Odeh?
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change – The Lake
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Filipiñana (Rafael Manuel)
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble – LADY (Olive Nwosu)
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact – Birds of War
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance – Everybody To Kenmure Street
  • NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression – TheyDream (William David Caballero)
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Baddest Speechwriter of All (Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry)
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Crisis Actor (Lily Platt)
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Jazz Infernal (Will Niava)
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – The Boys and the Bees (Arielle C. Knight)
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Living with a Visionary (Stephen P. Neary)
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Paper Trail (Don Hertzfeldt)
  • Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Noah Roja and Filippo Carrozza for The Liars
  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – In The Blink of An Eye (Andrew Stanton)
  • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Apoorva Guru Charan (Take Me Home)
  • Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Dawne Langford (Who Killed Alex Odeh?)
  • Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction – Mollie Goldstein
  • Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction – Flavia de Souza
  • NHK Award – Leo Aguirre (Verano)

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