Emilia Jones in CODA.
Photo: Seacia Pavao
The story was made at the virtual awards ceremony at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night. Siân Heder’s CODA, a family dramatization about the hearing child of deaf parents, became the first film in the history of the festival to win the Grand Jury Prize, the Direction Award and the Audience Award in the United States Dramatic category. CODA also won the Special Jury Award for Best Set. The film sold for a record $ 25 million to Apple Studios after a bidding war on Sunday. Blerta Basholli’s Hive likewise, he broke records in the World Cinema Dramatic category. Hive, who follows a single mother in the aftermath of the Kosovo war, he won the Grand Jury Prize, the Direction Award and the Audience Award in the Dramatic World Cinema category, becoming the first film in that category to do so. Other Tuesday winners include Summer Of Soul (… Or, when the revolution could not be televised), a 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival documentary directed by Questlove, which took home the Grand Jury and Audience Awards in the US category, as well as Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary on refugees To run away, winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema category. Check out the full list of winners below.
US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
CODA
Audience Award: Dramatic USA
CODA
Direction Award: US Dramatic
Siân Heder, CODA
Waldo Salt Screenplay Award: US Dramatic
Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch, On the count of three
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Actor
Clifton Collins Jr., Jockey
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble
The cast of CODA (Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Daniel Durant and Marlee Matlin)
US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Summer Of Soul (… Or, when the revolution could not be televised)
Audience Award: US Documentary
Summer Of Soul (… Or, when the revolution could not be televised)
Direction Award: US Documentary
Natalia Almada, Commercial
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: US Documentary
Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno, Classroom
US Special Documentary Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker
Parker Hill, Isabel Bethencourt, Cusp
US Documentary Jury Special Award for Nonfiction Experimentation
Theo Anthony, Every light, everywhere
World Film Grand Jury Award: Dramatic
Hive
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Hive
Direction award: World Cinema Dramatic
Blerta Basholli, Hive
Dramatic jury award for world cinema for acting
Jesmark Scicluna, Luzzu
World Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision
Baz Poonpiriya, One for the road
World Film Grand Jury Award: Documentary
To run away
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
Writing with fire
Direction Award: World Film Documentary
Hogir Hirori, Sabaya
Special jury award for the world cinema documentary for making Vérité films
Camilla Nielsson, President
Special worldwide film documentary jury award for Impact for Change
Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh, Writing with fire
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Dash Shaw (director), Jane Samborski (animation director), Cryptozoan
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Award
Alexis Gambis, Son of monarchs
Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award for Narrative Resources
Natalie Qasabian, Run
Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Documentary Award
Nicole Salazar, Philly DA
NHK Sundance Institute Award
Meryam Joobeur, Maternity
Sundance Institute / Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction
Juli Vizza
Sundance Institute / Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction Editing
Terilyn Shropshire