Sundance awards winners since 1982
1982
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Circle of Power
1985
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blood Simple
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Seventeen
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Almost You
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Killing Floor
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Stranger Than Paradise
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - America and Lewis Hine
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - In Heaven There Is No Beer?
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Kaddish
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Streetwise
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - The Times of Harvey Milk
1986
17 January - 26 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Smooth Talk
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Private Conversations
* Honorable Mention: Dramatic - Desert Hearts
* Honorable Mention: Documentary - Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
* Special Recognition: Dramatic - Seven Minutes in Heaven
1987
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Waiting for the Moon
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Trouble with Dick
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Sherman's March
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - No Picnic
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Chile: When Will It End?
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Working Girls
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Chile: When Will It End?
* Special Jury Prize for Originality: Dramatic - Sullivan's Pavilion
1988
15 January - 24 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Heat and Sunlight
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Beirut: The Last Home Movie
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Rachel River
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Beirut: The Last Home Movie
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Lemon Sky
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
* Special Jury Prize for Acting - Viveca Lindfors in Rachel River
1989
20 January - 29 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - True Love
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - For All Mankind
* Audience Award: Dramatic - sex, lies and videotape
* Audience Award: Documentary - For All Mankind
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Powwow Highway
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - John Huston
1990
19 January - 27 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Chameleon Street
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - H-2 Worker
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Water and Power
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Houseparty
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Longtime Companion
* Audience Award: Documentary - Berkeley in the Sixties
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Houseparty
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - H-2 Worker
* Special Jury Recognition: Dramatic - To Sleep With Anger
* Special Jury Recognition: Documentary - Samsara: Death And Rebirth In Cambodia
1991
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Poison
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - American Dream
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Paris Is Burning
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Privilege
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - American Dream
* Audience Award: Dramatic - One Cup of Coffee
* Audience Award: Documentary - American Dream
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Daughters of the Dust
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Christo in Paris
* Special Jury Recognition - Straight Out Of Brooklyn
1992
19 January - 27 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - In the Soup
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - A Brief History of Time
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Finding Christa
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Zebrahead
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - A Brief History of Time
* Audience Award: Dramatic - The Waterdance
* Audience Award: Documentary - Brother's Keeper
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Swoon
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Shoot for the Contents
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - The Waterdance
* Special Jury Recognition - The Hours and Times
* Special Jury Recognition - My Crasy Life
* Special Jury Recognition - Seymour Cassel for his performance in In the Soup
1993
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Ruby in Paradise and Public Access
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Children of Fate
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Silverlake Life: The View From Here
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Fly By Night
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Something Within Me
* Audience Award: Dramatic - El Mariachi
* Audience Award: Documentary - Something Within Me
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - An Ambush of Ghosts
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Children of Fate
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Combination Platter
* Freedom of Expression Award - Silverlake Life: The View From Here
* Special Jury Prize for a First Feature - Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
* Special Jury Prize for Distinction - Lillian
* Special Jury Prize for Superb Technical Achievement - Earth and the American Dream
* Special Jury Prize for Merit - Something Within Me
1994
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - What Happened Was
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Freedom on My Mind
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Clerks by Kevin Smith
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Fresh
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Spanking the Monkey
* Audience Award: Documentary - Hoop Dreams
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Suture
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - What Happened Was
* Freedom of Expression Award - Dialogues with Madwomen
* Freedom of Expression Award - Heart of the Matter
* Special Jury Recognition for Technical Achievement - Coming Out Under Fire
* Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting - Sean Nelson in Fresh
* Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting - Alicia Witt in Fun
* Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting - Renee Humphrey in Fun
1995
19 January - 29 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Brothers McMullen
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Crumb
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Angela
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Black Is...Black Ain't
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Picture Bride
* Audience Award: Documentary - Ballot Measure 9
* Audience Award: Documentary - Unzipped
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Angela
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Crumb
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Living in Oblivion
* Freedom of Expression Award - When Billy Broke His Head...and Other Tales of Wonder
* Special Jury Recognition - Jupiter's Wife
* Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Heavy
* Special Jury Recognition for Directing - Rhythm Thief
* Special Recognition in Latin Cinema Award - Eagles Don't Hunt Flies
* Special Mention - Strawberry and Chocolate
* Special Recognition in Short Filmmaking Award - The Salesman and Other Adventures
* Special Recognition in Short Filmmaking Award - Tom's Flesh
* Honorable Mentions - Trevor
* Honorable Mentions - Nonnie and Alex
1996
18 January - 28 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Welcome to the Dollhouse by Todd Solondz
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - Girls Town
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Cutting Loose
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Care of the Spitfire Grill
* Audience Award: Documentary - Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Cutting Loose
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Big Night
* Freedom of Expression Award - The Celluloid Closet
* Special Jury Recognition - When We Were Kings
* Special Jury Recognition - Girls Town
* Special Jury Recognition - I Shot Andy Warhol
* Special Recognition in Latin Cinema Award - Madagascar
* Special Mention - Guantanamera (film)
* Special Mention - Wild Horses
* Special Recognition in Short Filmmaking Award - A Small Domain
* Honorable Mention - Pig!
* Honorable Mention - Dry Mount
1997
16 January - 26 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Girls Like Us
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Sunday
* Audience Award: Documentary - Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Hurricane
* Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary - Licensed to Kill
* Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic - In the Company of Men
* Directing Award: Documentary - Licensed to Kill
* Directing Award: Dramatic - Hurricane
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sunday
* Freedom of Expression Award - Family Name
* Freedom of Expression Award - Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - My America ...or Honk if You Love Buddha
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Hurricane
* Special Jury: Documentary - Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
* Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance - The House of Yes
* Short Filmmakers Award: Honorable Mention - Going All the Way
* Latin American Cinema Award - Landscapes of Memory
* Latin American Cinema Award: Honorable Mention - Deep Crimson
* Short Filmmaking Award - Man About Town
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Birdhouse
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Syphon Gun
1998
15 January - 25 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Slam
1999
21 January - 31 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - American Movie
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Three Seasons
* Audience Award: Documentary - Genghis Blues
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Three Seasons
* Documentary Directing Award - Barbara Sonneborn for Regret to Inform
* Dramatic Directing Award - Eric Mendelsohn for Judy Berlin
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Emiko Omori for Rabbit in the Moon and Regret to Inform
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Lisa Rinzler for Three Seasons
* Freedom of Expression Award - The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Frank Whaley for Joe the King
* Audience Award World Cinema - Run Lola Run and Train of Life
2000
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Long Night's Journey Into Day
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Girlfight and You Can Count on Me
* Audience Award: Documentary - Dark Days
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Two Family House
* Documentary Directing Award - Paragraph 175
* Dramatic Directing Award - Girlfight
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Americano's: Latino Life in The United States
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Committed
* Freedom of Expression Award - Dark Days
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Kenneth Lonegran for You Can Count on Me
* Audience Award World Cinema - Saving Grace
* Special Jury Prize - The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
* Special Jury Prize - George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
* Special Jury Prize - The Tao of Steve
* Special Jury Prize - Songcatcher
* Special Jury Prize in Latin American Cinema - Herod's Law
* Special Jury Prize in Latin American Cinema - No One Writes to the Colonel
* Short Filmmaking Award - Five Feet High and Rising
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - The Bats
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Darling International
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - The Drowning Room
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Friday
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Hitch
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Ice Fishing
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - This is for Betsy Hall
* Short Filmmaking Award: Honorable Mention - Titler
2001
18 January - 28 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Southern Comfort
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Believer
* Audience Award: Documentary - Dogtown and Z-Boys
* Audience Award: Documentary - Scout's Honor
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
* World Cinema Audience Award - The Road Home
* Documentary Directing Award - Stacy Peralta director of Dogtown and Z-Boys
* Dramatic Directing Award - John Cameron Mitchell director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Albert Maysles for Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Giles Nuttgens for The Deep End
* Freedom of Expression Award - Scout's Honor
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Christopher Nolan for Memento
* Special Jury Prize - Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek for In the Bedroom
* Special Jury Prize - Children Underground
* Special Jury Prize - Possible Loves
* Special Jury Prize - Without a Trace
* Special Jury Mention - Damned - The Strange World of José Mojica Marins
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Gina, An Actress, Age 29
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Delusions in Modern Primitivism
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Jigsaw Venus
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Metropopular
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Peter Rabbit and the Crucifix
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Pie Fight '69
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Sweet
* Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention - Zen and the Art of Landscaping
2002
10 January - 20 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Real Women Have Curves
* Audience Award: Documentary - Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
* Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Bus 44
* Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Morning Breath: A Brooklyn Love Story
2003
16 January - 26 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Capturing the Friedmans
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - American Splendor (film)
* Audience Award: Documentary - My Flesh and Blood
* Audience Award: Dramatic - The Station Agent
* Documentary Directing Award - Jonathan Karsh director of My Flesh and Blood
* Dramatic Directing Award - Catherine Hardwicke for Thirteen (film)
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Stevie
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Quattro Noza
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Terminal Bar
2004
15 January - 25 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - DiG!
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Primer
* Audience Award: Documentary - Born into Brothels
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Maria Full of Grace
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - The Corporation
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Seducing Doctor Lewis
* Documentary Directing Award - Morgan Spurlock director of Super Size Me
* Dramatic Directing Award - Debra Granik for Down to the Bone
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Imelda
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - November
* Freedom of Expression Award - Repatriation
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Larry Gross for We Don't Live Here Anymore
* Special Jury Prize - Farmingville
* Special Jury Prize - Brother to Brother
* Special Jury Prize - Vera Farmiga for her performance in Down to the Bone
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - When the Storm Came
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Gowanus, Brooklyn
* Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Tomo
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Curtis
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Harvie Krumpet
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Krumped
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Papillon D’Amour
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Spokane
* Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award (Animation) - Bathtime in Clerkenwell
* Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award (Short Subject) - Wet Dreams False Images
* Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award (New Forms Gallery) - The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Texas Upgringing
* 2004 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Primer
2005
20 January - 30 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Why We Fight
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Forty Shades of Blue
* World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - Shape of the Moon
* World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Hero
* Audience Award: Documentary - Murderball
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Hustle & Flow
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Brothers
* Documentary Directing Award - Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston
* Dramatic Directing Award - Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - The Education of Shelby Knox
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Hustle & Flow
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
* Special Jury Prize for Editing - Murderball
* Special Jury Prize - After Innocence
* Special Jury Prize for Acting - Amy Adams in Junebug
* Special Jury Prize for Acting - Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker
* Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision - Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know
* Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision - Rian Johnson director of Brick
* Special Jury Prize - The Liberace of Baghdad
* Special Jury Prize - Wall
* Special Jury Prize - The Forest For the Trees
* Special Jury Prize - Live-In Maid
* Special Jury Prize (RU) - Elektra
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Family Portrait
* Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Wasp
* Shorts Jury Special Recognition - Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-time Story
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - One Weekend A Month
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Small Town Secrets
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Victoria Para Chino
* 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Grizzly Man
2006
19 January - 29 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - God Grew Tired of Us
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Quinceañera
* World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - In The Pit
* World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - 13 Tzameti
* Audience Award: Documentary - God Grew Tired of Us
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Quinceañera
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - De Nadie
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - No. 2
* Documentary Directing Award - James Longley director of Iraq in Fragments
* Dramatic Directing Award - Dito Montiel for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - James Longley for Iraq in Fragments
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Tom Richmond for Right at Your Door
* Documentary Film Editing - Iraq in Fragments
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Hilary Brougher for Stephanie Daley
* Special Jury Prize - American Blackout
* Special Jury Prize - A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (for Best Ensemble Performance)
* Special Jury Prize - In Between Days (for Independent Vision)
* Special Jury Prize - Into Great Silence
* Special Jury Prize - Dear Pyongyang
* Special Jury Prize - Eve & the Fire Horse
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Bugcrush
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - The Wraith of Cobble Hill
* Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Natural Route
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Before Dawn
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Preacher With an Unknown God
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Undressing My Mother
* 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - The House of Sand
2007
18 January - 28 January
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Padre Nuestro
* Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - Adama Meshuga'at (Sweet Mud)
* Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Vores lykkes fjender (Enemies of Happiness)
* Audience Award: Documentary - Hear and Now
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Grace is Gone
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - In the Shadow of the Moon
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Once
* Documentary Directing Award - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance
* Dramatic Directing Award - Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Heloisa Passos for Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Benoit Debie for Joshua
* Documentary Film Editing - Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for Nanking
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - James C. Strouse for Grace Is Gone
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic Performance - Jess Weixler in Teeth and Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Chris Smith, director of The Pool
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - No End in Sight
* Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - L' Héritage (The Legacy)
* Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Hot House
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Everything Will Be OK
* Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Tube With a Hat
* Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Death to the Tinman, The Fighting Cholitas, Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand), Motodrom, Spitfire 944, t.o.m.
* Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Freeheld
* 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Dark Matter
2008
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Trouble the Water
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Frozen River
* Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Man On Wire
* Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
* Audience Award: Documentary - Fields of Fuel
* Audience Award: Dramatic - The Wackness
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Man on Wire
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Captain Abu Raed
* Directing Award: Documentary - American Teen
* Directing Award: Dramatic - Ballast
* World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
* World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Mermaid (Rusalka)
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sleep Dealer
* World Cinema Screenwriting Award - I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J'ai Toujours Rêvé d'Être un Gangster)
* Documentary Editing Award - Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
* World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Patti Smith: Dream of Life
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Ballast
* World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Recycle
* World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
* World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)
* Special Jury Prize: Documentary - The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence - Anywhere, USA
* Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast - Choke
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - My Olympic Summer
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Sikumi (On the Ice)
* International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Soft
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Aquarium
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - August 15th
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - La Corona (The Crown)
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Oiran Lyrics
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Spider
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Suspension
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - W.
* 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Sleep Dealer
2009
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Precious
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - We Live in Public
* Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - The Maid (La Nana)
* Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Rough Aunties
* Audience Award: Dramatic - Precious
* Audience Award: Documentary - The Cove
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - An Education
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Afghan Star
* Dramatic Directing Award - Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre
* Documentary Directing Award - Natalia Almada for El General
* World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Oliver Hirschbiegel for Five Minutes of Heaven
* World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Havana Marking for Afghan Star
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Adriano Goldman for Sin Nombre
* Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Bob Richman for The September Issue
* World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - John De Borman for An Education
* World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - John Maringouin for Big River Man
* Documentary Film Editing - Karen Schmeer for Sergio
* World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros for Burma VJ
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi for Paper Heart
* World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Guy Hibbert for Five Minutes of Heaven
* Special Jury Prize for Originality, World Cinema Drama - Louise-Michel
* Special Jury Prize, World Cinema Documentary - Tibet in Song
* Special Jury Prize for Acting, World Cinema - Catalina Saavedra for The Maid (La Nana)
* Special Jury Prize, U.S. Documentary - Good Hair
* Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence - Humpday
* Special Jury Prize for Acting - Mo'Nique for Precious
* Jury Prize, U.S. Short Filmmaking - Short Term 12
* Jury Prize, International Short Filmmaking - Lies (Sweden)
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Omlet
* 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Adam
