NBA Great Steph Curry Wins Top Prize At Sundance For Short Film Co-Directed With Two-Time Oscar Winner Ben Proudfoot

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Steph Curry; Sundance Film Festival.

Four-time NBA title winner Steph Curry can now call himself a champion in another arena – filmmaking.

The Baddest Speechwriter of All, the short documentary Curry directed with two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The award was announced at a ceremony in Park City, Utah Tuesday night where winners were revealed in multiple categories – fiction, nonfiction, international fiction, and animation (scroll for the full list of winners).

Curry couldn’t attend the awards ceremony as he’s in the middle of the NBA season, but in a bit of additional good fortune, the hoops schedule takes his Golden State Warriors to Salt Lake City tonight for a game against the Utah Jazz. Proudfoot tells Deadline he and Curry will be able to celebrate their Sundance win together following the game.

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