Sundance Film Festival / Grand Jury Prize - Best Fiction

Prize winner 2019: Chinonye Chukwu

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

The prize has been awarded since the first edition of the film festival in 1984. An annually changing, five-member jury decides on the award. d. Usually consists of US filmmakers. So far, no director has won the award more than once.

year	Award winners	German title	Director
1984	Old Enough	Girls Wanna Have Fun	Marisa Silver
1985	Blood Simple	Blood Simple - A murderous night	Joel Coen
1986	Smooth talk	Menacing whispers	Joyce Chopra
1987	The Trouble with Dick	Much trouble for Dick	Gary Walkow
	Waiting for the moon	Waiting for the moon	Jill Godmilow
1988	Heat and Sunlight	not known	Rob Nilsson
1989	True love	True love	Nancy Savoca
1990	Chameleon Street	Douglas Street - The Chameleon	Wendell B. Harris Jr.
1991	Poison	Poison	Todd Haynes
1992	In the soup	In the Soup - All cinema	Alexandre Rockwell
1993	Public access	not known	Bryan Singer
	Ruby in Paradise	Ruby in Paradise	Victor Nuñez
1994	What Happened Was	not known	Tom Noonan
1995	The Brothers McMullen	Small sins among brothers	Edward Burns
1996	Welcome to the dollhouse	Welcome to the madhouse	Todd Solondz
1997	Sunday	Sunday	Jonathan Nossiter
1998	Slam	Slam	Marc Levin
1999	Three Seasons	Three Seasons	Tony Bui
2000	Girlfight	Girlfight - On your own	Karyn Kusama
	You Can Count on Me	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
2001	The Believer	Inside a skinhead	Henry Bean
2002	Personal Velocity: Three Portraits	not known	Rebecca Miller
2003	American Splendor	American Splendor	Robert Pulcini Shari Springer Berman
2004	Primer	not known	Shane Carruth
2005	Forty Shades of Blue	Forty Shades of Blue	Ira Sachs
2006	Quinceanera	Echo Park LA	Richard Glatzer Wash Westmoreland
2007	Padre Nuestro	Padre Nuestro - Our Father	Christopher Zalla
2008	Frozen River	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt
2009	Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire	Precious - Life is precious	Lee Daniels
2010	Winter's Bone	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2011	Like crazy	Like crazy	Drake Doremus
2012	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin
2013	Fruitvale Station	Next stop: Fruitvale Station	Ryan Coogler
2014	Whiplash	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	Me and Earl and the girl	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
2016	The Birth of a Nation	The Birth of a Nation - Revolt for Freedom	Nate Parker
2017	I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore	Strange in the world	Macon Blair
2018	The Miseducation of Cameron Post	The Miseducation of Cameron Post	Desiree Akhavan
2019	Clemency	not known	Chinonye Chukwu

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).