The following includes a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival.
1980s
1984
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Old Enough
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Style Wars
Honorable Mention Documentary – Seeing Red
Honorable Mention Documentary – The Good Fight (The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War) Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Last Night at the Alamo Special Jury Prize Documentary – When the Mountains Tremble Special Jury Recognition Documentary – The Secret Agent Special Jury Recognition Dramatic – Hero Source:
1985
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Blood Simple
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Seventeen
Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Almost You
Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Killing Floor
Special Jury Prize Documentary – America and Lewis Hine
Special Jury Prize Documentary – Kaddish
Special Jury Prize Documentary – Streetwise
Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Times of Harvey Milk
Special Jury Recognition Dramatic – Stranger Than Paradise
Special Jury Recognition Documentary – In Heaven There Is No Beer? Sources:
1986
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Smooth Talk
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Private Conversations
Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Desert Hearts
Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Special Jury Recognition – Parting Glances
Special Jury Recognition – The Great Wall is a Great Wall
Special Jury Recognition for Youth Comedy – Seven Minutes in Heaven
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1987
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Waiting for the Moon
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – The Trouble with Dick
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Sherman's March
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – No Picnic
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Chile: When Will It End? Special Jury Recognition – Working Girls Special Jury Recognition – River's Edge Special Jury Prize Documentary – Chile: When Will It End? Special Jury Prize for Originality – Sullivan's Pavilion Source:
1988
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Heat and Sunlight
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Beirut: The Last Home Movie
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Rachel River
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Beirut: The Last Home Movie
Special Jury Prize – Lemon Sky
Special Jury Prize Documentary – Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
Special Jury Prize Documentary – Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Special Jury Prize for Acting – Viveca Lindfors in Rachel River
Special Jury Recognition – The Brave Little Toaster
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1989
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – True Love
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – For All Mankind
Audience Award Documentary – For All Mankind
Audience Award Dramatic – sex, lies and videotape
Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Powwow Highway
Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – John Huston
Special Jury Recognition – The Roommate
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1990s
1990
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Chameleon Street
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – H-2 Worker
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Water and Power
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – H-2 Worker
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – House Party
Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – House Party
Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman
Audience Award Dramatic – Longtime Companion
Audience Award Documentary – Berkeley in the Sixties
Special Jury Recognition – To Sleep with Anger
Special Jury Recognition – Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia
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1991
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Poison
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – American Dream
Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Paris Is Burning
Filmmakers Trophy Dramatic – Privilege
Filmmakers Trophy Documentary – American Dream
Audience Award Dramatic – One Cup of Coffee
Audience Award Documentary – American Dream
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Daughters of the Dust
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – Christo in Paris
Special Jury Recognition – Straight Out of Brooklyn
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Hangin' with the Homeboys
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Trust
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