Audience Award Documentary

This is the list of winners of the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for documentary features.

Winners

1980s

• 1989: For All Mankind ^[1]

1990s

• 1990: Berkeley in the Sixties ^[2]
• 1991: American Dream
• 1992: Brother's Keeper
• 1993: Something Within Me
• 1994: Hoop Dreams ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}
• 1995: Ballot Measure 9 / Unzipped
• 1996: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern ^[7]
• 1997: Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End
• 1998: Out of the Past
• 1999: Genghis Blues

2000s

• 2000: Dark Days
• 2001: Dogtown and Z-Boys / Scout's Honor
• 2002: Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
• 2003: My Flesh and Blood
• 2004: Born into Brothels ^{[8] [9]}
• 2005: Murderball
• 2006: God Grew Tired of Us
• 2007: Hear and Now
• 2008: Fuel
• 2009: The Cove

2010s

• 2010: Waiting for "Superman"
• 2011: Buck
• 2012: The Invisible War
• 2013: Blood Brother
• 2014: Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
• 2015: Meru
• 2016: Jim: The James Foley Story
• 2017: Chasing Coral
• 2018: The Sentence
• 2019: Knock Down the House

2020s

• 2020: Crip Camp ^{[10] [11]}
• 2021: Summer of Soul ^{[12] [13]}
• 2022: Navalny
• 2023: Beyond Utopia ^[14]
• 2024: Daughters ^[15]
• 2025: André is an Idiot ^[16]

International winners

• 2023: 20 Days in Mariupol
• 2024: Ibelin
• 2025: Prime Minister

References

1. 1989 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
2. 1990 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
3. 1994 Sundance Film Festival Archived 2012-11-07 at the Wayback Machine sundance.org
4. Hoop Dreams|Kartemquin Films
5. 20 best Sundance films of all time|The A.V. Club
6. 25 Movies That Defined The Sundance Film Festival - IndieWire
7. Festival Watch: Sundance Film Festival|International Documentary Association
8. 2004 Sundance Film Festival sundance.org
9. 'Primer' surprise grand winner at Sundance|TODAY
10. Hipes, Patrick (February 2, 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Awards: 'Minari' Scores Double Top Honors – The Complete Winners List".
11. Debruge, Peter (2020-02-02). "Sundance Winners: 'Minari' and 'Boys State' Take Top Honors". Variety. Archived from the original on 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
12. "2021 Sundance Film Festival Awards Announced". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
13. Minsker, Evan (2 February 2021). "Questlove's Summer of Soul Documentary Wins Sundance 2021 Grand Jury Prize". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
14. Beyond Utopia review - breathlessly tense documentary follows escaping North Koreans|The Guardian
15. The Complete List of 2024 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners|Sundance Film Festival
16. D'Alessandro, Anthony (31 January 2025). "Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners List: 'Atropia' Wins U.S. Grand Jury Prize Dramatic". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 31 January 2025.