*Nate Parker‘s film “The Birth of A Nation” made a lot of noise at Sundance last week and now the film about Nat Turner’s early 19th century slave revolt has won top honors at the Sundance Film Festival.
“Nation” won both of the festival’s top prizes, the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award.
The film is the directorial debut of Parker, an actor who’s appeared in such films as “Red Tails,” ” The Great Debaters,” and “Non-Stop.” As we reported, the film got a standing ovation last Monday when it premiered, and was later purchased by Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million, the biggest sale in the festival’s history.
“Thank you Lord, thank you Sundance,” Parker said onstage at the Basin Recreation Field House in Park City. “I’ve seen first-hand that people are open to the idea of change, and the fact that this is happening means everything to me.”
Here’s the FULL list winners from Sundance 2016:
U.S. DRAMATIC
Audience Award
Birth Of A Nation
Nate Parker
Grand Jury Prize
Birth Of A Nation
Nate Parker
Directing
Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
Swiss Army Man
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Chad Hartigan
Morris From America
Special Jury Award – Individual Performance
Melanie Lynskey
The Intervention
Special Jury Award – Individual Performance
Craig Robinson
Morris from America
Special Jury Award – Breakthrough Performance
Joe Seo
Spa Night
Special Jury Award
As You Are
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
U.S. DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize
Weiner
Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman
Audience Award
Jim: The James Foley Story
Brian Oakes
Directing
Roger Ross Williams
Life, Animated
Special Jury Award – Vérité Filmmaking
The Bad Kids
Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe
Special Jury Award – Writing
Kate Plays Christine
Robert Greene
Special Jury Award – Social Impact Filmmaking
Trapped
Dawn Porter
NEXT Audience Award
First Girl I Loved
Kerem Sanga
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC
Audience Award
Between Sea and Land / Colombia
Directors: Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo
Grand Jury Prize
Sand Storm / Israel
Director: Elite Zexer
Directing Award
Belgica / Belgium-France-Netherlands
Felix van Groeningen
Special Jury Award – Unique Vision and Design
The Lure / Poland
Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Special Jury Award – Screenwriting
Mi Amiga Del Parque / Argentina-Uruguay
Screenwriters: Inés Bortagaray, Ana Katz
Special Jury Award – Acting
Vicky Hernandéz, Manolo Cruz
Between Sea and Land / Colombia
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize
Sonita / Germany-Iran-Swizerland
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Directing
All These Sleepless Nights / Poland
Michal Marczak
Special Jury Award – Best Editing
We Are X / UK-U.S.-Japan
Editors: Mako Kamitsuna, John Maringouin
Special Jury Award – Best Cinematography
The Land Of The Enlightened / Belgium
DP: Pieter-Jan De Pue
Special Jury Award – Best Debut Feature
When Two Worlds Collide / Peru
Directors: Mathew Orzel, Heidi Brandenburg
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
(announced Wednesday)
Embrace of the Serpent
Directed by Ciro Guerra
SHORT FILM PRIZES
(announced Wednesday)
Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Thunder Road / U.S.
Director and screenwriter: Jim Cummings
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
The Procedure / U.S.
Director and screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
Maman(s) / France
Director and screenwriter: Maïmouna Doucouré
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction
Bacon & God’s Wrath / Canada
Director: Sol Friedman
Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Edmond / UK
Director and screenwriter: Nina Gantz
Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance
Grace Glowicki
Her Friend Adam
Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction
Peacock / Czech Republic
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