Sundance 2016 Awards: 'Birth of a Nation' Wins Audience & Grand Jury

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The official awards for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. We’ve been anxiously awaiting the results of the awards at Sundance, and now we know who won big – The Birth of a Nation, the powerful directional debut of actor Nate Parker (read my review). The film won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize, which has been the case at Sundance for the last four years (last year Me & Earl & the Dying Girl won both). In addition, the other Audience Awards were the docs Jim: The James Foley Story and Sonita, and the film First Girl I Loved. Read on for the full list. ›››