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| ‘The Baddest Speechwriter of All’ (Caption/Credit below) |
Sundance Film Festival announced its 2026 Short Film Award-Winners at a ceremony where filmmakers representing the 54 shorts selected for the 2026 Festival, gathered at The Park in Park City, Utah, for an event celebrating short-form storytelling.
The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to The Baddest Speechwriter of All (Nonfiction). Short Film Jury Awards went to Crisis Actor (U.S. Fiction), Jazz Infernal (International Fiction), The Boys and the Bees (Nonfiction), and Living with a Visionary (Animation).
Two Special Jury Awards were also presented: Short Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision to Don Hertzfeldt for Paper Trail (Animation) and Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting to Noah Roja and Filippo Carrozza for The Liars (Argentina).
This year the Festival short film jury members were: A.V. Rockwell, Liv Constable-Maxwell, and Martin Starr.
“We are proud to celebrate the art of short filmmaking, our award winners, and every team that shared their work with us in the Short Film Program this Festival,” said Heidi Zwicker, Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer, Feature Films and Short Films. “We are continually inspired by the incredible range of storytelling and style we encounter in the shorts that form our lineup every year — we congratulate these artists and thank them for sharing their distinct visions with us and with our audiences.”
The Short Film Program awards announced the winning projects at the midpoint of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where 97 feature-length and episodic works and 54 short films — curated from 11,480 short film submissions — have screened to audiences in Park City, Salt Lake City, and online.
The Short Film Grand Jury Prize was awarded to: Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry for The Baddest Speechwriter of All / U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry, Producer: Erick Peyton). Dr. Clarence B. Jones, Now 95, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter, reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider’s view of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Image Captions and Credits:
Dr. Clarence B. Jones appears in The Baddest Speechwriter of All by Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Brandon Somerhalder.
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