Sundance Film Festival / Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary

Eugene Jarecki

With the Grand Jury Prize ( Grand Jury Prize: Documentary ) is the annually organized Sundance Film Festival the best US documentary prize (including co-productions) in competition. This makes it the most important award of the film festival, alongside the Grand Jury Prize for feature films .

The prize has been awarded since the first edition of the film festival in 1984. A five-member jury, which changes annually and consists mainly of US filmmakers, decides on the award. So far, only the two documentary filmmakers Ondi Timoner (2004 and 2009) and Eugene Jarecki (2005 and 2012) have won the award more than once.

year	Award winners	German title	Director
1984	Style Wars	not known	Tony Silver
1985	Seventeen	not known	Joel DeMott Jeff Kreines
1986	Private conversations	not known	Christian Blackwood
1987	Sherman's March	Sherman's campaign	Ross McElwee
1988	Beirut: The Last Home Movie	Beirut: The last private film	Jennifer Fox
1989	For All Mankind	For All Mankind - A big step for humanity	Al Reinert
1990	H-2 worker	not known	Stephanie Black
	Water and Power	Water and Power	Pat O'Neill
1991	American Dream	American Dream	Barbara Kopple
	Paris is burning	Paris is on fire	Jennie Livingston
1992	A Brief History of Time	A brief history of time	Errol Morris
	Finding Christa	not known	Camille Billops James Hatch
1993	Silverlake Life: The View from Here	Silverlake - A View From Here	Peter Friedman Tom Joslin
1994	Freedom on My Mind	Freedom on My Mind	Connie Field Marilyn Mulford
1995	Crumb	Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
1996	The American Experience / Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern	Troublesome Creek - A different kind of western	Jeanne Jordan Steven Ascher
1997	Girls Like Us	not known	Jane C. Wagner Tina DiFeliciantonio
1998	The Farm: Angola, USA	The Farm: Angola, USA	Jonathan Stack Liz Garbus
	Frat House	not known	Andrew Gurland Todd Phillips
1999	American Movie	not known	Chris Smith
2000	Long Night's Journey Into Day	Long Night's Journey Into Day	Deborah Hoffman Frances Reid
2001	Southern Comfort	Southern Comfort	Kate Davis
2002	Daughter from Danang	Reunion in Vietnam - On the trail of a childhood	Gail Dolgin Vicente Franco
2003	Capturing the Friedmans	Capturing the Friedmans	Andrew Jarecki
2004	DIG!	Dig!	Ondi Timoner
2005	Why We Fight	Why We Fight	Eugene Jarecki
2006	God Grew Tired of Us	not known	Christopher Quinn
2007	Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)	Manda Bala - Send a Bullet	Jason Kohn
2008	Trouble the water	Trouble the water	Carl Deal Tia Lessin
2009	We Live in Public	not known	Ondi Timoner
2010	Restrepo	Restrepo	Tim Hetherington Sebastian Young
2011	How to Die in Oregon	not known	Peter Richardson
2012	The House I Live In	Drugs: America's Longest War	Eugene Jarecki
2013	Blood Brother	not known	Steve Hoover
2014	Rich Hill	not known	Tracy Droz Tragos Andrew Droz Palermo
2015	The Wolfpack	Wolfpack	Crystal Moselle
2016	Weiner	not known	Elyse Steinberg Josh Kriegman
2017	Dina	not known	Dan Sickles Antonio Santini
2018	Kailash	not known	Derek Doneen
2019	One Child Nation	not known	Nanfu Wang Jialing Zhang

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Members at sundance.org, January 17, 2011 (accessed September 3, 2012).
2. ↑ Parker Posey to Host the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony at sundance.org (accessed September 3, 2012).