Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2020 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Boys State
Amanda McBaine
2019 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
One Child Nation
Jialing Zhang
2018 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
The Price of Free
Derek Doneen
2017 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Dina
Dan Sickles
2016 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Weiner
Josh Kriegman
2015 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
The Wolfpack
Crystal Moselle
2014 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Rich Hill
Tracy Droz Tragos
2013 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Blood Brother
Steve Hoover
2012 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
The House I Live In
Eugene Jarecki
2011 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
How to Die in Oregon
Peter Richardson
2010 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Restrepo
Sebastian Junger
2009 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
We Live in Public
Ondi Timoner
2008 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin
2007 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Jason Kohn
2006 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
God Grew Tired of Us
Christopher Dillon Quinn
2005 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Why We Fight
Eugene Jarecki
2004 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Dig!
Ondi Timoner
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Capturing the Friedmans
Andrew Jarecki
2002 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Daughter from Danang
Gail Dolgin
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Southern Comfort
Kate Davis
2000 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Long Night’s Journey Into Day
Frances Reid
1999 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
American Movie
Chris Smith
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Frat House
Todd Phillips
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
The Farm: Angola, USA
Jonathan Stack
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Girls Like Us
Jane Wagner
1996 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
Steven Ascher
1995 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Crumb
Terry Zwigoff
1994 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Freedom on My Mind
Connie Field
1993 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
Andrew Young
1993 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Silverlake Life: The View from Here
Tom Joslin
1992 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
A Brief History of Time
Errol Morris
1992 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Finding Christa
Camille Billops
1991 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
American Dream
Barbara Kopple
1991 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Paris Is Burning
Jennie Livingston
1990 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
H-2 Worker
Stephanie Black
1990 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Water and Power
Pat O’Neill
1989 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
For All Mankind
Al Reinert
1988 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Beirut: The Last Home Movie
Jennifer Fox
1987 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Sherman’s March
Ross McElwee
1986 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Christian Blackwood
1985 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Seventeen
Joel DeMott
1984 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
Style Wars
Tony Silver
1982 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
