‘Atropia’ Takes U.S. Grand Jury Prize Dramatic At Sundance Film Festival: Full Winners List

Anthony D'Alessandro
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As the Sundance Film Festival heads into its final weekend, the Park City event handed out trophies this morning to this year’s best. See the full list below.

Hailey Gates’ war satire Atropia took the marquee U.S. Grand Jury Prize for dramatic features. Alia Shawkat stars as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier (Callum Turner) cast as an insurgent, but their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

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The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic went to Twinless, James Sweeney’s film about two young men (Dylan O’Brien and Sweeney) who meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.

Georgi M. Unkovski’s DJ Ahmet won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and also nabbed the Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It follows Ahmet (Arif Jakup), a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia who finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

The top documentary prizes were claimed by Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Bears), Cutting Through Rocks, Prime Minister and André Is an Idiot.

Here are all the winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival awards:

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Atropia / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Hailey Gates, Producers: Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger)

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Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic
Rashad Frett for Ricky / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Rashad Frett, Screenwriter: Lin Que Ayoung, Producers: Pierre M. Coleman, Simon TaufiQue, Sterling Brim, DC Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Josh Peters, Mark Steele)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast
Plainclothes / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Carmen Emmi, Producers: Colby Cote, Arthur Landon, Eric Podwall, Vanessa Pantley)

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting
Dylan O’Brien for Twinless / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: James Sweeney, Producer: David Permut)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic
Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Eva Victor, Producers: Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins)

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling
Selena y Los Dinos / U.S.A. (Director: Isabel Castro, Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran Singh)

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U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award
Life After / U.S.A. (Director: Reid Davenport, Producer: Colleen Cassingham)

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
Geeta Gandbhir for The Perfect Neighbor / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Geeta Gandbhir, Producers: Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee)

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Seeds / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Brittany Shyne, Producers: Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon)

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic
Twinless / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: James Sweeney, Producer: David Permut) —

Audience Award: NEXT
East of Wall / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Kate Beecroft, Producers: Lila Yacoub, Melanie Ramsayer, Shannon Moss)

Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
Prime Minister / U.S.A. (Directors: Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz, Producers: Cass Avery, Leon Kirkbeck, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Katie Peck)

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Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
DJ Ahmet /North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia (Director and Screenwriter: Georgi M. Unkovski, Producers: Ivan Unkovski, Ivana Shekutkoska)

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
André Is an Idiot / U.S.A. (Director: Anthony Benna, Producers: André Ricciardi, Tory Tunnell, Joshua Altman, Stelio Kitrilakis, Ben Cotner)

NEXT AWARDS

NEXT Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Joel Alfonso Vargas, Producer: Paolo Maria Pedullà

NEXT Innovator Award
Zodiac Killer Project / U.S.A., U.K. (Director and Producer: Charlie Shackleton, Producers: Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing)

WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION AWARDS

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) /India, U.K., Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, Producers: Neeraj Churi, Mohamed Khaki, Kaushik Ray, Hareesh Reddypalli, Naren Chandavarkar, Sidharth Meer)

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision
Georgi M. Unkovski /North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia (Director and Screenwriter: Georgi M. Unkovski, Producers: Ivan Unkovski, Ivana Shekutkoska)

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Writing
Two Women / Canada (Director: Chloé Robichaud, Screenwriter and Producer: Catherine Léger, Producer: Martin Paul-Hus)

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Alireza Khatami for The Things You Kill /Turkey, France, Poland, Canada (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Alireza Khatami, Producers: Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff, Cyriac Auriol, Mariusz Włodarski, Michael Solomon)

WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION AWARDS

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) / Iran, Germany, U.S.A., Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada (Directors and Producers: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award
Mr. Nobody Against Putin /Denmark, Czech Republic (Director and Screenwriter: David Borenstein, Producer: Helle Faber

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression
Coexistence, My Ass! / U.S.A., France(Director and Producer: Amber Fares, Screenwriter and Producer: Rachel Leah Jones, Screenwriter: Rabab Haj Yahya, Producer: Valérie Montmartin)

Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary
Mstyslav Chernov for 2000 Meters to Andriivka

SHORTS PROGRAM AWARDS

Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Theo Panagopoulos for The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / U.K.

Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing
Loren Waters for Tiger

Short Film Special Jury Award for Animation Directing
May Kindred-Boothby for The Eating of an Orange

Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Natalia León for Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado

Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction
Christopher Radcliff for We Were the Scenery

Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
Chheangkea for Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites

Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
Jazmin Garcia for Trokas Duras

Retroactive Awards

The Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction : Danielle Varga for Seeds

The Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Joe Pirro for The Wedding Banquet

The 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize:
Sally

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