Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
The 40-Year-Old Version
Radha Blank
2019 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Joe Talbot
2018 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
The Kindergarten Teacher
Sara Colangelo
2017 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Beach Rats
Eliza Hittman
2016 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Swiss Army Man
Daniel Scheinert
2015 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
The Witch
Robert Eggers
2014 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Fishing Without Nets
Cutter Hodierne
2013 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Afternoon Delight
Jill Soloway
2012 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Middle of Nowhere
Ava DuVernay
2011 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Sean Durkin
2010 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
3 Backyards
Eric Mendelsohn
2009 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Sin nombre
Cary Joji Fukunaga
2008 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Ballast
Lance Hammer
2007 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Rocket Science
Jeffrey Blitz
2006 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel
2005 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
The Squid and the Whale
Noah Baumbach
2004 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Down to the Bone
Debra Granik
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke
2002 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Tadpole
Gary Winick
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell
2000 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Girlfight
Karyn Kusama
1999 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Judy Berlin
Eric Mendelsohn
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
Pi
Darren Aronofsky
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award – Dramatic
