2003 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. Steve Zahn and Maggie Gyllenhaal presented the awards in a ceremony televised live on the Sundance Channel.

Unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them musician Bob Dylan.

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