2005 Sundance Film Festival

The 2005 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 20 to 30, 2005.

It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 21st iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.

Award winners
• Special Jury Prize for Editing – Murderball

• Audience Award Documentary – Murderball

• Audience Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow

• Directing Award Documentary – Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston

• Directing Award Dramatic – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale

• Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Education of Shelby Knox

• Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow

• Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Why We Fight

• Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Forty Shades of Blue

• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – One Weekend a Month

• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Small Town Secrets

• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Victoria Para Chino

• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Tama Tu

• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan

• Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story

• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Family Portrait

• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Wasp

• Special Jury Prize Documentary – After Innocence

• Special Jury Prize for Acting – Amy Adams in Junebug

• Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker

• Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know

• Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Rian Johnson director of Brick

• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale

• World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Shape of the Moon

• World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Hero

• World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Brothers

• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Liberace of Baghdad

• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Wall

• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Forest for the Trees

• World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid

Juries
The juries at the Sundance Film Festival are responsible for determining the Jury Prize winners in each category and to award Special Jury Prizes as they see fit.


 * US Documentary competition: Stacy Peralta, Jehane Noujaim, Steve James, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut, Gail Dolgin
 * US Dramatic competition: Chris Eyre, Vera Farmiga, John C. Reilly, B. Ruby Rich, Christine Vachon
 * World Documentary competition: Penny Woolcock, Jean Perret, Miriam Cutler
 * World Dramatic competition: Antonia Bird, Mike Goodridge, Fernando León de Aranoa
 * Shorts Competition: Sam Green, Ernest Hardy
 * Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Peggy LeMone, Shane Carruth, John Underkoffler, Lawrence Krauss, Miguel Arteta