Sundance Film Festival / Best Director - Fiction

Winner of the directing award ( US Directing Award: Dramatic ) for the best director of a US feature film (including co-productions) in the competition at the annual Sundance Film Festival .

The award has been presented since the 15th edition of the film festival in 1998. A five-member jury, which changes annually and usually consists of US filmmakers, decides on the award. So far only the filmmaker Eric Mendelsohn (1999 and 2010) has won the award more than once.

year	Award winners	Movie	German title
1998	Darren Aronofsky	pi	Pi - the movie
1999	Eric Mendelsohn	Judy Berlin	Judy Berlin
2000	Karyn Kusama	Girlfight ¹	Girlfight - On your own
2001	John Cameron Mitchell	Hedwig and the Angry Inch ²	not known
2002	Gary Winick	Tadpole	Everyone loves Oscar
2003	Catherine Hardwicke	Thirteen	Thirteen
2004	Debra Granik	Down to the bone	not known
2005	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale	The squid and the whale
2006	Ditto Montiel	A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints	Kids - In the streets of New York
2007	Jeffrey Blitz	Rocket Science	not known
2008	Lance hammer	ballast	not known
2009	Cary Fukunaga	Sin nombre	Sin nombre
2010	Eric Mendelsohn	3 backyards	not known
2011	Sean Durkin	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha Marcy May Marlene
2012	Ava DuVernay	Middle of Nowhere	not known
2013	Jill Soloway	Afternoon Delight	not known
2014	Cutter Hodierne	Fishing Without Nets	not known
2015	Robert Eggers	The VVitch: A New-England Folktale	The witch
2016	Daniel Scheinert Daniel Kwan	Swiss Army Man	Swiss Army Man
2017	Eliza Hittman	Beach Rats	Beach Rats

¹ = film productions at Sundance and the Grand Jury Prize winning
² = film productions and the Sundance Audience Award won

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).