Share This
summary started by
jon for the Sundance Film Festival Base
These are the films that have won awards in any category or year at the Sundance Film Festival. It includes dramatic films, documentaries and shorts in both the US and World competition categories. They are listed by the award year - newest first.
More
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
about 200 Film topics matching:
Filter this Collection
+
x
-
Film
- Initial release date
- Tagline
- » Directed by
-
Performances
-
Personal appearances
-
Dubbing performances
- » Genres
- » Subjects
- » Executive produced by
- » Produced by
- » Screenplay by
- » Story by
- » Cinematography
- » Edited by
-
Release date(s)
- » Casting director
- » Production design by
- » Art direction by
- » Set Decoration by
- » Costume design by
-
Other crew
- » Music by
-
Runtime
- » Languages
- » Country of origin
- » Notable filming locations
-
Gross revenue
-
Estimated budget
- » Rated
- » Soundtrack
- » Featured Song
- » Film Series
- » Sequel
- » Prequel
- » Film format
- » Production companies
-
Distributors
-
Other film companies
- Netflix ID
- » Film festivals
- NY Times ID
- Metacritic film ID
- Apple movie trailer ID
- Rotten Tomatoes ID
- Trailer Addict ID
- Fandango ID
-
Pre-production
-
Filming
-
Post-production
-
Songs
-
Gay Porn
-
W Film
-
Award-Nominated Work
-
Award-Winning Work
-
Awards Won
-
- Other Columns Other Info
Tyrannosaur
Tyrannosaur is a 2011 BAFTA award winning British drama film written and directed by Paddy Considine, his first feature film.
It depicts an environment similar to what Considine witnessed growing up on a council estate in the Midlands, although the...
Initial release date:
- Jan 21, 2011
Directed by:
Circumstance
Circumstance is a 2011 drama film written and directed by Maryam Keshavarz.
"Teenagers Atafeh, and her best friend, Shireen, are experimenting with their burgeoning sexuality amidst the subculture of Tehran’s underground art scene when Atafeh’s...
"Teenagers Atafeh, and her best friend, Shireen, are experimenting with their burgeoning sexuality amidst the subculture of Tehran’s underground art scene when Atafeh’s...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Like Crazy
Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Drake Doremus and starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, and Jennifer Lawrence. In an interview with The Telegraph, Jones stated that the script was fully improvised.
Yelchin and Jones...
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2011
Directed by:
Pariah
Pariah is a 2011 contemporary drama film written and directed by Dee Rees. It tells the story of Alike (Adepero Oduye), a 17-year old African–American teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian. It premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a 2011 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Sean Durkin, and starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, and Hugh Dancy. The plot focuses on a young woman suffering from delusions and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 21, 2011
Directed by:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is 2011 documentary film written and directed by Göran Olsson.
Initial release date:
- 2011
Directed by:
All Your Dead Ones
"In this eerie and fantastically shot tragicomic satire, an ordinary farmer’s morning routine is interrupted when he makes a grim discovery in the middle of his cornfield—a huge pile of dead bodies. Aghast, he reports the mysterious massacre on what...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Another Happy Day
"A wedding at her parents’ Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the fire of primal, Byzantine family dynamics. It’s the wedding of Lynn’s son, whom she was deprived of raising because of her acrimonious divorce, and a feud still rages...
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2011
Directed by:
Awards Won:
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
"Each and every day, millions of kids tune in to Sesame Street to see one of the world’s most adored and recognizable children’s characters, a furry red monster named Elmo. Yet, with all of Elmo’s fame, the man behind the Muppet is able to walk down...
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2011
Directed by:
Position among the Stars
Position Among the Stars (Dutch: Stand van de Sterren) is a 2010 documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 17 November 2010 as opening film of IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam).
The documentary is...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Happy, Happy
"Kaja is an optimistic and easygoing housewife—despite her loneliness and the fact that her husband won’t have sex with her. When Elisabeth and Sigve, who seem like the perfect husband and wife, move in next door, Kaja is thrilled by their...
Initial release date:
- Sep 16, 2011
Directed by:
Kinyarwanda
Kinyarwanda tells the story of hope, redemption and religious tolerance in the midst of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award. The film marks...
Initial release date:
- Jan 24, 2011
Directed by:
Restoration
"After his longtime business partner dies, Yakov Fidelman discovers that his antique furniture-restoration shop is in grave financial difficulty. He’s forced to deal with his estranged son, Noah, a lawyer, who, seeing no hope for the failing store,...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Buck
Buck is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of the real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman.
Buck explores the life of Buck Brannaman from his childhood living with an...
Initial release date:
- Jan 21, 2011
Directed by:
How to Die in Oregon
How to Die in Oregon is a 2011 documentary film produced and directed by Peter Richardson. The film is set in the state of Oregon and covers the state's Death with Dignity Act that allows terminally ill patients to end their own life with medication...
Initial release date:
- 2011
Directed by:
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a 2011 documentary film directed by Marshall Curry and written by Marshall Curry and Matthew Hamachek.
Initial release date:
- Jan 21, 2011
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
The Redemption of General Butt Naked is a 2010 documentary drama film directed by Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss.
"Joshua Milton Blahyi, aka General Butt Naked, murdered thousands during Liberia’s horrific 14-year civil war. Today this once...
"Joshua Milton Blahyi, aka General Butt Naked, murdered thousands during Liberia’s horrific 14-year civil war. Today this once...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, directed by Jon Foy, is an 2011 independent documentary film about the Toynbee tile phenomenon. The film was selected for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary category, and Foy won...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Hell and Back Again
Hell and Back Again is a 2010 documentary film directed by Danfung Dennis.
"In 2009, U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Immediately upon landing, the marines were surrounded by...
"In 2009, U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Immediately upon landing, the marines were surrounded by...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2011
Directed by:
Project Nim
Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh.
Initial release date:
- Jan 20, 2011
Directed by:
Senna
"The story of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest race car driver who ever lived, is an epic tale that literally twists at every turn. In the mid 1980s, Senna, a young, gifted driver, exploded onto the world of Formula One racing. As a Brazilian in a...
Initial release date:
- Oct 7, 2010
Directed by:
to.get.her
to.get.her is a 2011 mystery film written and directed by Erica Dunton.
Initial release date:
- Jan 21, 2011
Directed by:
Awards Won:
Another Earth
Another Earth is a 2011 American science fantasy/drama film directed by Mike Cahill in his feature film debut. The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and is being distributed...
Initial release date:
- Jan 24, 2011
Directed by:
What City Does it Live?
Directed by:
I Dream In Another Language
Directed by:
The Six Dollar Fifty Man
"Andy, a gutsy eight-year-old boy, is forced to break out of his make-believe superhero world to deal with playground bullies."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- 2009
Space Tourists
"In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a "normal person“ and travel into outer space. For 20 million dollars, the American Anousheh Ansari was able to fulfil this childhood dream. This...
Initial release date:
- Nov 20, 2009
Directed by:
His & Hers
"This distinctive documentary, shot through with charm and humour, has a deceptively simple conceit that manages to deliver an honest and revealing insight into life in Ireland.
The creator of a number of acclaimed documentary shorts, Ken Wardrop...
The creator of a number of acclaimed documentary shorts, Ken Wardrop...
Initial release date:
- Oct 2009
Directed by:
Enemies of the People
"Enemies of the People takes a peek at "the project" of Thet Sambath, whose parents were among the approximately two million who perished under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. In an attempt to win their trust so they will admit to their...
Initial release date:
- 2009
Smash His Camera
Smash His Camera is a 2010 documentary film directed by filmmaker Leon Gast about the life and career of paparazzi photographer Ron Galella. In early 2010, the film won "Best Director" of a documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, began a limited...
Initial release date:
- 2010
Directed by:
The Oath
The Oath is a 2010 documentary from director Laura Poitras. It tells the cross-cut tale of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose meeting launched them on juxtaposed paths with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, US military tribunals and...
Initial release date:
- May 7, 2010
Directed by:
3 Backyards
3 Backyards is a film written and directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It premiered at the 2010 Sundance International Film Festival, where it won the Directing Prize, as did Mendelsohn's first feature, Judy Berlin; Mendelsohn is the only director to have...
Initial release date:
- 2010
Directed by:
Winter’s Bone
Winter's Bone is a 2010 American independent drama film, an adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Debra Granik and stars Jennifer Lawrence. It explores the interrelated themes of close and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 21, 2010
Directed by:
Undertow
"Miguel and Mariela are a happily married couple, well-respected in their small seaside fishing village and looking forward to the imminent arrival of their first child. Miguel genuinely adores his devoted wife, yet also carries on a clandestine...
Initial release date:
- Sep 23, 2009
Directed by:
Southern District
"Nestled in the lush valley of La Paz, Bolivia, the upper-class suburb of Zona Sur has sheltered the country’s wealthy elite for many years. Here, in an adobe-tile-roofed castle, a statuesque matriarch reigns over her spoiled progeny and her...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2010
Directed by:
The Man Next Door
"Leonardo, a successful industrial designer, lives with his family in an architectural wonder, a midcentury Le Corbusier home. One morning, he wakes to an irksome noise and is appalled to discover that workmen next door are constructing a large...
Initial release date:
- Sep 2, 2010
Born Sweet
"Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15-year-old boy from a small, rural village in Cambodia, who fashions dreams for karaoke stardom in spite of his illness."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Directed by:
Can We Talk?
"Vince gets way more than he bargains for when he dumps his girlfriend . . . again."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Directed by:
Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No
"In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, here's the animated tale of Dock Ellis' s legendary LSD no-hitter."
Quoting the description from the 201 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 201 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- 2009
Directed by:
Drunk History: Douglass & Lincoln
"On March 22, Jen Kirkman drank two bottles of wine and then discussed a historical event."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2010
Directed by:
Drunk History: Tesla & Edison
"On January 7, Duncan Trussell drank a six-pack of beer . . . then a half a bottle of absinthe . . . and then he discussed a historical event."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Directed by:
Homewrecker
"Mike is a locksmith. He’s also a prisoner on work release, but you wouldn’t know it. He’s just trying to focus on his house calls and reconcile with his ex-girlfriend—until Margo hijacks his day. A live-wire kook, who’s certain her boyfriend is...
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Awards Won:
Quadrangle
"An unconventional look at two conventional couples who swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early 1970s, hoping to pioneer an alternative to divorce and the way people live in the future."
Quoting the description from the 2010...
Quoting the description from the 2010...
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Directed by:
Rob and Valentyna in Scotland
"A lost American travels with his long-lost Ukrainian cousin to the Highlands of Scotland."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Directed by:
Young Love
"Clarity often exists in the eyes of strangers."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quoting the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- 2008
Directed by:
The Red Chapel
The Red Chapel (Danish: Det Røde Kapel) is a 2009 Danish documentary film directed by Mads Brügger. It chronicles the visit of Brügger and Danish comedians that are adopted from South Korea, Jacob Nossell (who is in a wheelchair) and Simon Jul to...
Initial release date:
- 2009
Directed by:
Happythankyoumoreplease
happythankyoumoreplease is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Josh Radnor in his directorial debut. The film stars Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri, Pablo Schreiber, and Tony Hale, and it tells the story of...
Initial release date:
- Jan 20, 2010
Directed by:
Grown Up Movie Star
Grown Up Movie Star is a 2010 Canadian drama film written, directed and co-produced by Adriana Maggs. Shawn Doyle, Jill Knox Gosse and Paul Pope are the other co-producers. The film was produced by Pope Productions and distributed in Canada by...
Initial release date:
- Jan 29, 2010
Directed by:
Restrepo
Restrepo is a 2010 documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington.
The film explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent in Afghanistan on...
Initial release date:
- Jul 2, 2010
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is a 2010 Australian crime drama written and directed by David Michôd, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Sullivan Stapleton, Jacki Weaver and James Frecheville. Michôd's script was inspired by the...
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
Directed by:
Waiting for "Superman"
Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 documentary film from director Davis Guggenheim and producer Lesley Chilcott. The film analyzes the failures of American public education by following several students through the educational system, hoping to be...
Initial release date:
- Sep 24, 2010
Directed by:
Gasland
Gasland is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. The film focuses on communities in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling and, specifically, a stimulation method known as hydraulic fracturing.
In May 2008,...
Initial release date:
- 2010
Directed by:
Sympathy for Delicious
Sympathy for Delicious is a 2010 drama film, and the directorial debut of Mark Ruffalo. Filming took place in Los Angeles.
A newly paralyzed DJ (Thornton) gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
Mark Ruffalo won...
Initial release date:
- Apr 29, 2011
Directed by:
Obselidia
Obselidia is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Diane Bell, starring Michael Piccirilli, Gaynor Howe and Frank Hoyt Taylor. The Film won two awards at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: the Excellence in Cinematography award and the...
Initial release date:
- 2010
Directed by:
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is a 2010 documentary film about the life and career of comedienne Joan Rivers. It premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival at the Castro Theatre on May 6, 2010.
The film earned very high critical...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2010
A Film Unfinished
A Film Unfinished (Hebrew title: שתיקת הארכיון Shtikat haArkhion, German title: Geheimsache Ghettofilm) is a 2010 documentary film by Yael Hersonski, which re-examines the making of an unfinished 1942 Nazi propaganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto two...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2010
Directed by:
Waste Land
Waste Land is a 2010 documentary directed by Lucy Walker, João Jardim and Karen Harley. The film documents two years of work of Brazilian contemporary modern artist Vik Muniz in creating art with the cooperation of scavengers of recyclables working...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2010
An Education
An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film, based on an autobiographical article in Granta by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a...
Initial release date:
- Jan 18, 2009
Directed by:
The Maid
The Maid (Spanish: La Nana) is a 2009 comedy-drama film, directed by Sebastián Silva and co-written by Silva and Pedro Peirano. It has won numerous awards since its premiere at the 25th Annual Sundance Film Festival. The film has had much critical...
Initial release date:
- Oct 16, 2009
