Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
2019 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Paul Downs Colaizzo
2018 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Burden
Andrew Heckler
2017 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Crown Heights
Matt Ruskin
2016 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
The Birth of a Nation
Nate Parker
2015 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
2014 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
2013 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler
2012 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
The Sessions
Ben Lewin
2011 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Circumstance
Maryam Keshavarz
2010 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Happythankyoumoreplease
Josh Radnor
2009 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Precious
Lee Daniels
2008 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
The Wackness
Jonathan Levine
2007 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Grace Is Gone
Jim Strouse
2006 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Quinceañera
Richard Glatzer
2005 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Hustle & Flow
Craig Brewer
2004 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Maria Full of Grace
Joshua Marston
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
The Station Agent
Tom McCarthy
2002 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Real Women Have Curves
Patricia Cardoso
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell
2000 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Two Family House
Raymond De Felitta
1999 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Three Seasons
Tony Bui
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Smoke Signals
Chris Eyre
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Hurricane Streets
Morgan J. Freeman
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Love Jones
Theodore Witcher
1996 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
The Spitfire Grill
Lee David Zlotoff
1995 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Picture Bride
Kayo Hatta
1994 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Spanking the Monkey
David O. Russell
1993 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
El mariachi
Robert Rodriguez
1992 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
The Waterdance
Neal Jimenez
1991 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Pastime
Robin B. Armstrong
1990 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
Longtime Companion
Norman René
1989 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
