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2020 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Minari Lee Isaac Chung](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/minari-lee-isaac-chung-image.jpg)
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
2019 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Brittany Runs a Marathon Paul Downs Colaizzo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/brittany-runs-a-marathon-paul-downs-colaizzo-image.jpg)
Brittany Runs a Marathon
Paul Downs Colaizzo
2018 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Burden Andrew Heckler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/burden-andrew-heckler-image.jpg)
Burden
Andrew Heckler
2017 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Crown Heights Matt Ruskin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/crown-heights-matt-ruskin-image.jpg)
Crown Heights
Matt Ruskin
2016 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-birth-of-a-nation-nate-parker-image.jpg)
The Birth of a Nation
Nate Parker
2015 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Alfonso Gomez-Rejon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-image.jpg)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
2014 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Whiplash Damien Chazelle](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/whiplash-damien-chazelle-image.jpg)
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
2013 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Fruitvale Station Ryan Coogler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fruitvale-station-ryan-coogler-image.jpg)
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler
2012 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![The Sessions Ben Lewin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sessions-image.jpg)
The Sessions
Ben Lewin
2011 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Circumstance Maryam Keshavarz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/circumstance-maryam-keshavarz-image.jpg)
Circumstance
Maryam Keshavarz
2010 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Happythankyoumoreplease Josh Radnor](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happythankyoumoreplease-josh-radnor-image.jpg)
Happythankyoumoreplease
Josh Radnor
2009 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Precious Lee Daniels](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/precious-lee-daniels-image.jpg)
Precious
Lee Daniels
2008 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![The Wackness Jonathan Levine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-wackness-jonathan-levine-image.jpg)
The Wackness
Jonathan Levine
2007 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Grace Is Gone Jim Strouse](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/grace-is-gone-jim-strouse-image.jpg)
Grace Is Gone
Jim Strouse
2006 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Quinceañera Richard Glatzer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/quinceañera-richard-glatzer-wash-westmoreland-image.jpg)
Quinceañera
Richard Glatzer
2005 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Hustle & Flow Craig Brewer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hustle-and-flow-craig-brewer-image.jpg)
Hustle & Flow
Craig Brewer
2004 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Maria Full of Grace Joshua Marston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/maria-full-of-grace-joshua-marston-image.jpg)
Maria Full of Grace
Joshua Marston
2003 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![The Station Agent Tom McCarthy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-station-agent-tom-mccarthy-image.jpg)
The Station Agent
Tom McCarthy
2002 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Real Women Have Curves Patricia Cardoso](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/real-women-have-curves-patricia-cardoso-image.jpg)
Real Women Have Curves
Patricia Cardoso
2001 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Hedwig and the Angry Inch John Cameron Mitchell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hedwig-and-the-angry-inch-john-cameron-mitchell-image.jpg)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell
2000 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Two Family House Raymond De Felitta](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/two-family-house-raymond-de-felitta-image.jpg)
Two Family House
Raymond De Felitta
1999 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Three Seasons Tony Bui](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/three-seasons-tony-bui-image.jpg)
Three Seasons
Tony Bui
1998 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Smoke Signals Chris Eyre](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/smoke-signals-chris-eyre-image.jpg)
Smoke Signals
Chris Eyre
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Hurricane Streets Morgan J. Freeman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hurricane-streets-morgan-j.-freeman-image.jpg)
Hurricane Streets
Morgan J. Freeman
1997 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Love Jones Theodore Witcher](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/love-jones-theodore-witcher-image.jpg)
Love Jones
Theodore Witcher
1996 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![The Spitfire Grill Lee David Zlotoff](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-spitfire-grill-lee-david-zlotoff-image.jpg)
The Spitfire Grill
Lee David Zlotoff
1995 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Picture Bride Kayo Hatta](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/picture-bride-kayo-hatta-image.jpg)
Picture Bride
Kayo Hatta
1994 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Spanking the Monkey David O. Russell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/spanking-the-monkey-david-o.-russell-image.jpg)
Spanking the Monkey
David O. Russell
1993 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![El mariachi Robert Rodriguez](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/el-mariachi-robert-rodriguez-image.jpg)
El mariachi
Robert Rodriguez
1992 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![The Waterdance Neal Jimenez](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-waterdance-neal-jimenez-michael-steinberg-image.jpg)
The Waterdance
Neal Jimenez
1991 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Pastime Robin B. Armstrong](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pastime-robin-b.-armstrong-image.jpg)
Pastime
Robin B. Armstrong
1990 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Longtime Companion Norman René](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/longtime-companion-norman-rene-image.jpg)
Longtime Companion
Norman René
1989 Sundance Film Festival – Audience Award – Dramatic
![Sex, Lies, and Videotape Steven Soderbergh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sex-lies-and-videotape-steven-soderbergh-image.jpg)