sundance 2017

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore and Dina Win Top Sundance Prizes

The jury’s in! The comedy-thriller I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore has taken the top honor at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, proving victorious in a jam-packed competition slate. Serving as the directorial debut for Macon Blair, Anymore stars indie favorite Melanie Lynskey as a depressed woman who chooses to thoroughly investigate her simple home burglary in the hopes of giving her life meaning; also along for the adventure is her annoying neighbor, who’s played by Elijah Wood. (And good news if you’re intrigued by the logline, there’s already a trailer and it’s coming to Netflix next month.) Also coming out on top at the festival is Dina, which won the documentary prize for its unconventional look at a romance between two adults with differing neurological conditions. The complete list of winners can be browsed through below.

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Grand Jury Prize
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Directing Award
Eliza Hittman, Beach Rats

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Ingrid Goes West
Matt Spicer, David Branson Smith

Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director
Maggie Betts, Novitiate

Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance
Chanté Adams, Roxanne Roxanne

Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Yellow Birds

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Grand Jury Prize
Dina

Directing Award
Peter Nicks, The Force

The Orwell Award
Icarus

Special Jury Award for Storytelling
Strong Island

Special Jury Award for Editing
Unrest

Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking
Step

U.S. Dramatic Audience Award
Crown Heights

U.S. Documentary Audience Award
Chasing Coral

World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
Sueño en Otro Idioma (I Dream in Another Language)
Mexico/Netherlands

World Cinema Documentary Audience Award
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
U.S.A.

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Grand Jury Prize
The Nile Hilton Incident
Sweden/Germany/Denmark

Special Jury Award for Directing
God’s Own Country
United Kingdom

Special Jury Award for Screenwriting
Pop Aye
Singapore/Thailand

Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision
Free and Easy
Hong Kong

Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Axolotl Overkill
Germany

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Grand Jury Prize
Last Men in Aleppo
Denmark/Syria

Directing Award
Winnie
France/Netherlands/South Africa

Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Canada

Special Jury Award for Commanding Vision
Motherland
U.S.A./Philippines

Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Machines
India/Germany/Finland

OTHER AWARDS

Next Audience Award
Gook
U.S.A

The Short Film Grand Jury Prize
And so we put goldfish in the pool.
Japan

The Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
Lucia, Before and After
U.S.A.

The Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye
Chile, U.S.A.

The Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction
Alone
U.S.A.

The Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck
Germany

A Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Dadyaa — The Woodpeckers of Rotha
Nepal, France

A Short Film Special Jury Award for Editing
Laps
U.S.A.

See the Full List of 2017 Sundance Winners