“CODA” Wins Big at Sundance 2021
The family dramedy makes history and comes away with four awards

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival comes to an end today, on February 3. After a full week of spectacular feature film projects, documentaries, and deep dives into world cinema, suicide pacts, African American music, and top-notch acting, we have our winners.
Siân Heder’s CODA is the big winner of this year’s festival, creating history as it went along picking up four awards. It became the first film to win the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic category in the festival’s history. The film also won the Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble. The family dramedy about the child of deaf parents starred Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, and Daniel Durant.

Questlove’s Summer Of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) also performed well, picking up the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary category. Blerta Basholli’s Hive almost matched CODA’s run, picking up the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Directing Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category. The film about a mother fighting against a patriarchal society in Kosovo becomes the first in its category to do so as well. Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas’s journalism documentary Writing With Fire also picked up two awards in the World Cinema Documentary category.
Check out the entire roster of award winners from 2021’s Sundance Film Festival here.
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