Sundance Film Festival 2017 Awards: Complete Winners and Awards

The Sundance Film Festival 2017 opened in an 119 feature-length with 68 short films portraying big producing companies such as Amazon, Netflix, and Sony Pictures Classics along with the awarded films including "Manchester by the Sea," "Little Miss Sunshine," and "Whiplash."

Sundance Film Festival 2017 jurors were Gael Garcia, Larry Wilmore, Peter Dinklage and Sonia Braga in selecting the most nominated film this year. "I Don't Feel at Home in This World anymore" starring Elijah Wood and Melanie Lynskey, directed by Macon Blair won the U.S Grand Jury Prize for a dramatics feature. The former carrier of the awards was Damien Chazelle of "Whiplash" who won an Oscar award last 2014.

The Sundance Film Festival 2017 directing award for U.S dramatic feature was acquired by Eliza Hittman for directing the gay coming-of-age drama titled "Beach Rats," which was acted by Harris Dickinson. The awards were also shared in terms of critically acclaimed films such as "The Witch" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene."

The Sundance Film Festival 2017 was held from Jan. 20-29 at Salt Lake City, Park City and Sundance, Utah. As reports claimed by Backstage, John Cooper, director of the film festival stated that the event took a political tone regarding U.S. President Donald Trump saying that this year's Sundance Film Festival was one of the wackiest, wildest and most rewarding Festivals in recent memory. The executive director of a non-profit Sundance Institute Keri Putnam also stated that all films must work together for the upcoming future of arts.

"Let's create the most amazing energy we feel here at the Festival every time we share stories with one another, we must work together on behalf of the arts for the future we want to see," said Keri Putnam.

As for The Wrap, this year's Sundance Film Festival 2017 was dominated by consumer entertainment with streaming services like Netflix. Netflix boosted its purchase in distributing and streaming rights that made epic films such as Dee Rees' "Mudbound," Marti Noxon's atrophy drama film "To the Bone," "I Don't Feel at Home," and Jessica Williams' "The Incredible Jessica James."

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