Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Park City, UT After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees, named in total below, represent new achievements in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to
Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of attention was paid to
Sundance 2021 Winners: CODA Sweeps With Four Prizes, Questlove s Documentary Summer Of Soul Earns Two
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Feb. 2, 2021
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The 2021 Sundance Film Festival concluded Tuesday night with a virtual awards ceremony, honoring “CODA” a family drama centered on a high school student who is the child of deaf adults (hence the title) with four prizes in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category: the grand jury prize, the directing prize, the audience award and a special jury prize for best ensemble.
It is the first film in Sundance history to win all three top prizes in the U.S. Dramatic category.
“CODA” Wins Big at Sundance 2021
“CODA” Wins Big at Sundance 2021
The family dramedy makes history and comes away with four awards
The family dramedy makes history and comes away with four awards
February 3, 2021
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival comes to an end today, on February 3. After a full week of spectacular feature film projects, documentaries, and deep dives into world cinema, suicide pacts, African American music, and top-notch acting, we have our winners.
Siân Heder’s
CODA is the big winner of this year’s festival, creating history as it went along picking up four awards. It became the first film to win the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic category in the festival’s history. The film also won the Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble. The family dramedy about the child of deaf parents starred Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, and Daniel Durant.