Below are the nominations and winners across various categories of the Sundance Film Festival 2021. The largest independent film festival in the US has been held digitally for the first time in its 43-year history.

U.S. DOCUMENTARY

“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – QuestLove” – WINNER – GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD
“Homeroom” – Peter Nicks – WINNER – DOCUMENTARY FILM EDITING AWARD (Kristina Motwani, Rebecca Adorno)
“Ailey” – Jamila Wignot
“Rebel Hearts” – Pedro Kos
“All Light, Everywhere” – Theo Anthony – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD for NON-FICTION EXPERIMENTATION
“At the Ready” – Maisie Crow
“Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It” – Mariem Pérez Riera
“Cusp” – Isabel Bethencourt, Parker Hill – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD for EMERGING FILMMAKER
“Try Harder!” – Debbie Lum
“Users” – Natalia Almada – WINNER – DIRECTING AWARD

U.S. DRAMATIC

“CODA” – Sian Heder – WINNER – GRAND JURY PRIZE, AUDIENCE AWARD, DIRECTING AWARD – DRAMATIC and SPECIAL JURY AWARD for BEST ENSEMBLE
“I Was a Simple Man” – Christopher Makoto Yogi
“Jockey” – Clint Bentley – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD for ACTING (Clifton Collins Jr.)
“John and the Hole” – Pascual Sisto
“Mayday” – Karen Cinorre
“On the Count of Three” – Jerrod Carmichael – WINNER – WALDO SALT SCREENWRITING AWARD (Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch)
“Passing” – Rebecca Hall
“Superior” – Erin Vassilopoulos
“Together Together” – Nicole Beckwith
“Wild Indian” – Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY

“Flee” – Jonas Poher Rasmussen – WINNER – GRAND JURY PRIZE
“Writing with Fire” – Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas – WINNER – AUDIENCE AWARD and SPECIAL JURY AWARD for IMPACT AND CHANGE
“Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story” – Sally Aitken
“Taming the Garden” – Salomé Jashi
“Faya Dayi” – Jessica Beshir
“Misha and the Wolves” – Sam Hobkinson
“President” – Camilla Nielsson – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD for VERITE FILMMAKING
“Sabaya” – Hogir Hirori – WINNER – DIRECTING AWARD
“The Most Beautiful Boy in the World” – Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri

GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD – WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC

“Hive” – Blerta Basholli – WINNER – GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD
“Human Factors” -Ronny Trocker
“El Planeta” – Amalia Ulman
“Fire in the Mountains” – Ajitpal Singh
“Luzzu” – Alex Camilleri – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD – ACTING (Jesmark Scicluna)
“Pleasure” – Ninja Thyberg
“The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet” – Ana Katz
“One for the Road” – Baz Poonpiriya – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD – CREATIVE VISION
“Prime Time” – Jakub Piatek
“The Pink Cloud” – Iuli Gerbase

SHORT FILMS

“Lizard” – Akinola Davies – WINNER – GRAND JURY PRIZE
“Souvenir, souvenir” – Bastien Dubois – WINNER – SHORT FILM JURY AWARD – ANIMATION
Bambirak – Zamarin Wahdat – WINNER – SHORT FILM JURY AWARD – INTERNATIONAL FICTION
“Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma” – Topaz Jones, Rubberband – WINNER – SHORT FILM JURY AWARD – NON-FICTION
“The Touch of the Master’s Hand” – Gregory Barnes – WINNER – SHORT FILM JURY AWARD – US FICTION
“Wiggle Room” – Julia Baylis, Sam Guest – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD – ACTING (Deanna Gibson)
“The Criminals” – Serhat Karaaslan – WINNER – SPECIAL JURY AWARD – SCREENWRITING

NEXT INNOVATOR AWARD

“Cryptozoo” – Dash Shaw – WINNER