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The Sundance Film Festival revealed award winners for its 2022 edition Friday. Like the rest of this year\u2019s festival, which was forced to go all-virtual because of the recent Omicron surge, the awards ceremony played out on Twitter, with honors spread around across the diverse lineup unlike last year, when CODA swept the top honors.<\/p>\n
Nikyatu Jusu\u2019s Nanny won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, while the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to The Exiles directed by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus. Marquee Audience Awards wins went to Apple\u2019s big sales pickup Cha Cha Real Smooth, and the surprise secrent-screening documentary Navalny, which won both the Audience Award in the U.S. Doc section as well as the omnibus Festival Favorite Award.<\/p>\n
Winners were announced in the U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Dramatic and World Documentary competitions as well as the Next and the Short Film sidebars. Audience Awards, Grand Jury and Special Jury Prizes were bestowed. See the complete winners list below.<\/p>\n
Top U.S. winner Nanny, a horror-thriller, centers on Aisha (Anna Diop), an immigrant piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family. She is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream. Michelle Monaghan and Sinqua Walls also star.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor this Grand Jury Prize we celebrate a movie that flooded us with its compassionate and horrifying portrayal of a mother being separated from her child,\u201d Sundance juror Chelsea Bernard said during the virtual ceremony. \u201cThis film cannot be contained by any one genre \u2014it\u2019s visually stunning, masterfully acted, impeccably designed from sound to visual effects, and the overall vision, expertly guided by Nikyatu Jusu, comes together offering its audience an electrifying experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Exiles revolves around activist and documentary filmmaker Christine Choy, who filmed the leaders of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement during the 1989 massacre. Midway through production, the project was abandoned and the footage was all but forgotten. In Exiles, she returns to the never before seen archive, and the stories of three key figures during the protests, who remain political exiles to this day.<\/p>\n
Navalny, meanwhile, is a documentary thriller directed by Daniel Roher hailing from CNN Films and HBO Max. It focuses on Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, who gave Roher unparalleled access to him and his inner circle as he was recovering from being poisoned and decides to return home.<\/p>\n
Among other notable winners tonight: a Grand Jury Prize in the World Dramatic competition going to Alejandro Loayza Grisi\u2019s Utama from Bolivia, one of the festival raves from Deadline\u2019s Todd McCarthy (read his review here). Finland\u2019s Girl Picture won the Audience Award in that section.<\/p>\n
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in the U.S. Dramatic section went to K.D. D\u00e1vila for her comedic thriller Emergency, while Jamie Dack took the Director prize in that section for Palm Trees and Power Lines.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s awards solidified the bona fides of CODA, which played in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and was swept up by Apple in a fest-record $25 million deal. That pic, directed by Si\u00e2n Heder, also swept on the fest\u2019s awards night, taking four trophies in all including the Audience Award, Directing award, the Grand Jury Prize and a Special Jury Prize for the ensemble. It\u2019s now an Oscar frontrunner.<\/p>\n
This year, the real-life drama 892 took the U.S. ensemble prize in the lineup for a cast led by John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington and the late Michael K Williams.<\/p>\n
Overall, this year\u2019s class has been tougher to gauge, with acquisition activity somewhat muted and in-person reactions to Park City screenings not a factor. Still, Deadline broke big deals led again by Apple, which paid $15 million for world rights to Raiff\u2019s Cha Cha Real Smooth.<\/p>\n
In other spotlight deals in the market, Searchlight Pictures closed a deal for around $7.5 million for U.S. rights to Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, starring Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack, while Sony Pictures Classics paid about $5 million for North American and some international territory rights to the Bill Nighy-starrer Living.<\/p>\n
On the documentary side, National Geographic picked up Fire of Love in a mid-seven-figure world rights deal, then followed that by acquiring The Territory. The latter pic, scored an Audience Award win tonight in the World Documentary lineup as well as a Special Jury Award for documentary craft going to director Alex Pritz.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full list of winners. Click on the title to read Deadline\u2019s review if available.<\/p>\n
FESTIVAL FAVORITE AWARD<\/p>\n
Navalny
\nDirector: Daniel Roher<\/p>\n
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION<\/p>\n
Audience Award<\/p>\n
Cha Cha Real Smooth
\nDirector-Writer: Cooper Raiff<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Award<\/p>\n
Nanny
\nDirector-Writer: Nikyatu Jusu<\/p>\n
Directing<\/p>\n
Jamie Dack
\nPalm Trees and Power Lines<\/p>\n
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award<\/p>\n
K.D. D\u00e1vila
\nEmergency<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast<\/p>\n
John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington and Michael K Williams
\n892<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision<\/p>\n
Bradley Rust Gray
\nblood<\/p>\n
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION<\/p>\n
Audience Award<\/p>\n
Navalny
\nDirector: Daniel Roher<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize<\/p>\n
The Exiles (U.S.)
\nDirectors: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus<\/p>\n
Directing<\/p>\n
Reid Davenport
\nI Didn\u2019t See You There<\/p>\n
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award<\/p>\n
Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput
\nFire Of Love<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Impact for Change<\/p>\n
Aftershock
\nDirectors: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Creative Vision<\/p>\n
Descendant
\nDirector: Margaret Brown<\/p>\n
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION<\/p>\n
Audience Award<\/p>\n
The Territory (Brazil\/Denmark\/U.S.)<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize<\/p>\n
All That Breathes (India\/UK)
\nDirector: Shaunak Sen<\/p>\n
Directing<\/p>\n
Simon Lereng Wilmont
\nA House Made Of Splinters (Denmark)<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft<\/p>\n
The Territory (Brazil\/Denmark\/U.S.)
\nDirector: Alex Pritz<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Excellence In Verit\u00e9 Filmmaking<\/p>\n
Midwives (Myanmar)
\nDirector: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing<\/p>\n
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION<\/p>\n
Audience Award<\/p>\n
Girl Picture (Finland)
\nDirector: Alli Haapasalo<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize<\/p>\n
Utama (Bolvia\/Uruguay\/France)
\nDirector-Writer: Alejandro Loayza Grisi<\/p>\n
Directing<\/p>\n
Maryna Er Gorbach
\nKlondike (Ukraine\/Turkey)<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit<\/p>\n
Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
\nDirector-Writer: Martika Ramirez Escobar<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Acting<\/p>\n
Teresa S\u00e1nchez
\nDos Estaciones (Mexico)<\/p>\n
NEXT<\/p>\n
Audience Award<\/p>\n
Framing Agnes (Canada\/U.S.)
\nDirector: Chase Joynt<\/p>\n
SHORT FILMS AWARDS<\/p>\n
Grand Jury Prize<\/p>\n
The Headhunter\u2019s Daughter (Philippines)
\nDirector-Writer: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan<\/p>\n
Jury Award: U.S. Fiction<\/p>\n
If I Go Will They Miss Me (U.S.)
\nDirector-writer: Walter Thompson-Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n
Jury Award: International Fiction<\/p>\n
Warsha (France\/Lebanon)
\nDirector-writer: Dania Bdeir<\/p>\n
Jury Award: Nonfiction<\/p>\n
Displaced (Kosovo)
\nDirector-writer: Samir Karahoda<\/p>\n
Jury Award: Animation<\/p>\n
Night Bus (Taiwan)
\nDirector-writer: Joe Hsieh<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast<\/p>\n
Z\u00e9lia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorre Motta
\nA wild patience has taken me here (Brazil)
\nDirector-writer: \u00c9rica Sarmet<\/p>\n
Special Jury Award: Screenwriting<\/p>\n
Sara Driver
\nStranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (U.S.)
\nDirectors: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster; Writer: Sara Driver<\/p>\n
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNERS<\/p>\n
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize<\/p>\n
After Yang<\/p>\n
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction<\/p>\n
Su Kim, Free Chol Soo Lee (U.S. Documentary Competition)<\/p>\n
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction<\/p>\n
Amanda Marshall, God\u2019s Country (Premieres)<\/p>\n
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction<\/p>\n
Toby Shimin<\/p>\n
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction<\/p>\n
Dody Dorn<\/p>\n
Sundance Institute | NHK Award<\/p>\n
Hasan Hadi, The President\u2019s Cake<\/p>\n
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