2003 Sundance Film Festival

2003 Sundance Film Festival
Festival poster
Location	Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 16–26, 2003
Website	festival.sundance.org/2003
2004 Sundance Film Festival 2002 Sundance Film Festival

The 2003 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16 to January 26, 2003. American Splendor, a biopic of comic-book author Harvey Pekar, won the grand-jury prize.^[1]^[2] Steve Zahn and Maggie Gyllenhaal presented the awards in a ceremony televised live on the Sundance Channel.^[2]

Unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them musician Bob Dylan.^[3]^[4]

Non-competition features

Park City at Midnight

Dysfunktional Family
Girls Will Be Girls
The Hebrew Hammer
Nightstalker
Rolling Kansas
Spun
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator

Awards

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Capturing the Friedmans^[2]
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – American Splendor^[1]^[2]
Audience Award: Documentary – My Flesh and Blood^[2]
Audience Award: Dramatic – The Station Agent^[2]
Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth – All the Real Girls^[2]
Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth – What Alice Found^[2]
Special Jury Prize for Performance – Patricia Clarkson, The Station Agent; Pieces of April; All the Real Girls^[2]
Special Jury Prize for Performance – Charles Busch, Die, Mommie, Die!^[2]
Documentary Directing Award – Jonathan Karsh, My Flesh and Blood^[2]
Dramatic Directing Award – Catherine Hardwicke, Thirteen^[2]
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – Tom McCarthy, The Station Agent^[2]
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Dana Kupper, Gordon Quinn, and Peter Gilbert, Stevie^[2]
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Quattro Noza^[2]
The Freedom of Expression Award went to What I Want My Words to Do to You^[2]
Special Jury Prize for Documentary – The Murder of Emmett Till^[2]
Special Jury Prize for Documentary – A Certain Kind of Death^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Comic-book movie triumphs at Sundance". The Guardian. January 26, 2003. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Susman, Gary (January 27, 2003). "Here are the Sundance winners". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
^ "Bob Dylan Through The Years" Sundance 2003", Rolling Stone, January 22, 2003
^ Sundance Institute, History of Sundance