2003 Sundance Film Festival
# 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.

## Non-competition features

### 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
