Sundance - Grand Jury Prize
Sundance is a popular ski resort located between Park City and Provo, Utah. It was founded and is owned by the actor Robert Redford, named after the role he played in the 1969 film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, is a competition for independent film makers that has become a popular January mecca for glitterati, the press and those that yearn to see and be seen. It is the largest film festival in the United States, and perhaps in the world.
Below are the past winners of the Grand Jury Prize for "Best Picture".
Right The Egyptian Theatre sign at the festival.
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
6.4/10
Director: Nate Parker
Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Mark Boone Junior, Dwight Henry, Jackie Earle Haley, Aunjan...
As a young slave in the American south, Nat Turner (Nate Parker) showed an ability to read that shocked his owners, soon guided by the white mistress... Read more
Public Access (1993)
5.3/10
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Ron Marquette, Dina Brooks, Burt Williams
The first film from director Bryan Singer ('The Usual Suspects') is a creepy, award-winning account of life in small town America. A public access TV... Read more
Heat and Sunlight (1988)
5.3/10
Director: Rob Nilsson
Starring: Rob Nilsson, Don Bajema, Consuelo Faust
This powerful and disturbingly honest film documents the final hours of a love affair between a photographer and his exotic dancer girlfriend. Made by... Read more
Like Crazy (Blu-ray) (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Drake Doremus
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence
So wildly in love are Los Angeles college students Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones) - a British citizen with a temporary visa - that sh... Read more
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Blu-ray) (2015)
7.7/10
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Starring: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke
Winner of the 2015 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is the story of Greg Gaines (Thomas Mann), an awkw... Read more
Girlfight (2000)
6.8/10
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Jaime Tirelli, Michelle Rodriguez
Struggling with a tense homelife and a temper that lands her in trouble at school, Brooklyn teen Michelle Rodriguez finds an unlikely outlet for her e... Read more
You Can Count on Me (2000)
7.7/10
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Starring: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney, Rory Culkin
This alternately funny and melancholy acclaimed comedy-drama focuses on two orphaned siblings, a charismatic drifter (Mark Ruffalo) and an uptight sin... Read more
Winter's Bone ( Blu-ray ) (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence
With the threat of her family being evicted from their home in the Ozarks if her bail-jumping father isn't caught within the week, 17-year-old Ree Dol... Read more