Il film dominatore di questa edizione è stato Whiplash, film tratto tra l'altro dal cortometraggio che lo scorso anno vinse nella categoria dedicata ai migliori cortometraggi, il film diretto da Damien Chazelle ha vinto nelle due categorie dedicati al genere drammatico, ovvero quello della giuria e quello del pubblico.
Whiplash racconta la storia del talentuoso batterista interpretato da Miles Teller che deve fare i conti con il suo maestro che per avere i risultati sperati non sempre utilizza metodi ortodossi, la distribuzione internazionale del film è già stata aquisita da Sony che a breve regalerà degli aggiornamenti.
Chiaramente la lista dei vincitori è lunghissima e potrete consultarla qui di seguito:
- U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Whiplash
- U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -Rich Hill
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic- To Kill a Man
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -Return to Homs
- Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic presented by Acura -Whiplash
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary presented by Acura -Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
- Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic -Difret
- Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary -The Green Prince
- Audience Award: Best of NEXT -Imperial Dreams
- Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic- Fishing Without Nets / Cutter Hodierne
- Directing Award: U. S. Documentary- The Case Against 8 / Ben Cotner & Ryan White
- Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic -52 Tuesdays / Sophie Hyde
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary- 20,000 Days on Earth / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
- Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic -Low Down / Christopher Blauvelt
- Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary -E-TEAM / Ross Kauffman & Rachel Beth Anderson
- Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic -Lilting / Ula Pontikos
- Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary- Happiness / Thomas Balmès & Nina Bernfeld
- U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent- Dear White People / Justin Simien
- U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score- Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter / The Octopus Project
- U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking -The Overnighters
- U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Use of Animation- Watchers of the Sky
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance- God Help the Girl
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Bravery- We Come as Friends
- Editing Award: U. S. Documentary- Watchers of the Sky
- Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary -20,000 Days on Earth
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic- The Skeleton Twins / Craig Johnson & Mark Heyman
- Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic- Blind / Eskil Vogt
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize- I Origin
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize- Of God and Dogs
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction- Gregory Go Boom
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction- The Cut
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction- I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation -Yearbook
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision -Rat Pack Rat
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Non-Fiction- Love. Love. Love.
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting- Burger
- Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube -Chapel Perilous