Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

Film award

This is the list of the winners of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features.

## Winners

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### 1970s

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* 1978: Girlfriends[1][2]
* The Whole Shootin' Match (second place)[3]

### 1980s

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* 1982: Circle of Power[4]
* 1984: Old Enough[5][6][7]
* 1985: Blood Simple[8][9][10][11][12][7][13][14]
* 1986: Smooth Talk[15][16][7][17]
* 1987: The Trouble with Dick/Waiting for the Moon[18][7]
* 1988: Heat and Sunlight[19][7]
* 1989: True Love[20][7]

### 1990s

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* 1990: Chameleon Street[21][22][23][24][7]
* 1991: Poison[10][25][26][7]
* 1992: In the Soup[27][7]
* 1993: Public Access/Ruby in Paradise[28][7]
* 1994: What Happened Was...[29][30][7]
* 1995: The Brothers McMullen/The Young Poisoner's Handbook[11][31]
* 1996: Welcome to the Dollhouse[32][33][34][7][13]
* 1997: Sunday[35][7]
* 1998: Slam[11][36][37][7]
* 1999: Three Seasons[38][7]

### 2000s

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* 2000: Girlfight/You Can Count on Me[39][40][41][7]
* 2001: The Believer[42][43]
* 2002: Personal Velocity[44][7]
* 2003: American Splendor[45][46][47][7]
* 2004: Primer[47][48][49][50][7]
* 2005: Forty Shades of Blue[7]
* 2006: Quinceañera[51][7]
* 2007: Padre Nuestro[7]
* 2008: Frozen River[7][52]
* 2009: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire[53][54][55][7][56][52]

### 2010s

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* 2010: Winter's Bone[7][57][52]
* 2011: Like Crazy[7]
* 2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild[58][59][7]
* 2013: Fruitvale Station[60][61][7][13]
* 2014: Whiplash[62][7]
* 2015: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl[7]
* 2016: The Birth of a Nation[7]
* 2017: I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore[7]
* 2018: The Miseducation of Cameron Post[7][63]
* 2019: Clemency[7]

### 2020s

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* 2020: Minari[64][7][65]
* 2021: CODA[66][67][7]
* 2022: Nanny[7][68]
* 2023: A Thousand and One[7]
* 2024: In the Summers[69][7][70]

## International winners

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## See also

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* Palme d'Or
* Academy Award for Best Picture

## References

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