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2015 host Tig Notaro



Jane Fonda and Andie MacDowell at the 2006 IDA Documentary Awards

Barbara Kopple and Robert Redford at the 2014 IDA Documentary Awards





Morgan Freeman at the 2006 IDA Documentary Awards



Werner Herzog presents Career Achievement Awards to Les Blank at the 2011 Documentary Awards

2017 host Maz Jobrani













34th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Honorees

Julia Reichert Career Achievement Award Bing Liu Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award Chicken & Egg Pictures Amicus Award Stephen Maing & NYPD 12 Courage Under Fire Award The Courage Under Fire Award—which is given from time to time to a filmmaker who demonstrates extraordinary courage in pursuit of the truth—will be presented to director Stephen Maing and all the NYPD12 whistleblowers of Crime + Punishment. Amidst a landmark lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. Over four years of rare access, the film cinematically documents our nation’s largest policing institution from the inside through the efforts of a brave group of officers who decide to sue the department and became known as the NYPD12.

Award Nominees & Winners

Best Feature

Crime + Punishment

Director/Producer: Stephen Maing

Producers: Ross Tuttle and Eric Daniel Metzgar

Hulu Dark Money

Director/Producer: Kimberly Reed

Producer: Katy Chevigny

PBS Distribution Free Solo

Directors/Producers: E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

Producers: Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill

National Geographic Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Director/Producer: RaMell Ross

Producers: Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim

Cinema Guild Minding the Gap (winner)

Director/Producer: Bing Liu

Producer: Diane Quon

Hulu/POV Of Fathers and Sons

Director: Talal Derki

Producers: Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias Siebert and Hans Robert Eisenhauer

Kino Lorber Sky and Ground

Directors/Producers: Talya Tibbon and Joshua Bennett

Producers: Maro Chermayeff and Jeff Dupre

World Channel (PBS) The Silence of Others

Directors/Producers: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar

Cinephil/POV United Skates

Directors/Producers: Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown

HBO Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Director/Producer: Morgan Neville

Producers: Caryn Capotosto and Nicholas Ma

Focus Features

Best Short

Black Sheep

Director: Ed Perkins

Producers: Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn

The Guardian Fear Us Women

Director: David Darg

Producer: Diego Traverso

RYOT Lifeboat

Director/Producer: Skye Fitzgerald

Producer: Bryn Mooser

RYOT/Spin Film Los Comandos

Directors/Producers: Joshua Bennett and Juliana Schatz-Preston

Producers: Jeff Dupre, Maro Chermayeff and Jessica Chermayeff

World Channel Mosul

Director: Olivier Sarbil

Co-Director/Producer: James Jones

Producers: Dan Edge and Raney Aronson-Rath

PBS Distribution Sidelined

Director: Galen Summer

Producer: Jason Goldman

A&E IndieFilms The Girl and the Picture

Director/Producer: Vanessa Roth

Producers: Devorah Palladino and Stephen D. Smith

USC Shoah Foundation We Are Not Done Yet

Director: Sareen Hairabedian

Producer: Jeffrey Wright and David Holbrooke

HBO We Became Fragments

Director/Producer: Luisa Conlon

Directors: Lacy Jane Roberts and Hanna Miller

The New York Times Op-Docs Zion (winner)

Director/Producer: Floyd Russ

Producer: Carter Collins

Netflix

Best Audio Documentary

30 for 30 Podcasts: Bikram

Producers: Julia Lowrie Henderson, Jody Avirgan, Erin Leyden and Ryan Ross Smith

Executive Producers: Connor Schell and Libby Geist

ESPN Films Caliphate (winner)

Reporters: Rukmini Callimachi and Andy Mills

Producers: Andy Mills, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr and Asthaa Chaturvedi

The New York Times Heavyweight-Episode: Jesse

Producers: Jonathan Goldstein, Kalila Holt and Kaitlin Roberts

Gimlet Media Latino USA - Episode: The Quevedos

Producer: Sayre Quevedo

Executive Producer: Maria Hinojosa

FUTURO MEDIA Slow Burn Season 2

Producers: Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons

The Slate Podcast Network

Best Curated Series

American Masters

Executive Producer: Michael Kantor

PBS Doc World

Executive Producer: Christopher Hastings

WORLD Channel Independent Lens

Executive Producers: Lois Vossen and Sally Jo Fifer

ITVS & Independent Lens / PBS POV (winner)

Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White

POV/American Documentary Why Slavery?

Executive Producers: Mette Hoffmann Meyer and Nick Fraser

The Why Foundation

Best Episodic Series

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown

Executive Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig, Jared Andrukanis, Amy Entelis and Lizzie Fox

CNN Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World

Executive Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Lydia Tenaglia, Christopher Collins, Joe Caterini, Anna Chai, Amy Entelis and Lizzie Fox

CNN ESPN Films: Enhanced

Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Brad Hebert, Stacey Offman, Libby Geist and Connor Schell

ESPN Last Chance U

Executive Producers: Greg Whiteley, Joe LaBracio, Dawn Ostroff, James D. Stern and Lucas Smith. Co-Executive Producers: Dane Lillegard and Andrew Fried

Netflix The Confession Tapes

Executive Producers: Kelly Loudenberg, Philip David Segal, Sarah Whalen, Jeff Bumgarner, Steven Robillard, James Graves and Devin Griffi

Netflix The Trade (winner)

Executive Producers: Matthew Heineman and Pagan Harleman

Showtime

Best Limited Series

Best Shot

Director/Executive Producer: Michael John Warren

Executive Producers: LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard and Jordan Wynn

Youtube Bobby Kennedy for President

Director/Executive Producer: Dawn Porter

Executive Producers: Laura Michalchyshyn, Jon Kamen, Justin Wilkes, Dave Sirulnick, Nestan Berhrans and Gunnar Dedio

Netflix Flint Town

Directors/Executive Producers: Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper and Jessica Dimmock

Executive Producers: David Pritikin, Steve Golin and P.G. Morgan

Netflix November 13: Attack on Paris

Directors/Executive Producers: Jules Naudet and Gédéon Naudet

Executive Producer: Ben Silverman, Howard Owens, Erik Barmack, Jennifer Breslow, Damien Couvreur

Netflix Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story

Directors/Executive Producers: Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason

Executive Producers: Mike Gasparro, Shawn Carter, David Glasser, Chachi Senior, Nick Sandow, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton

Paramount Network Wild Wild Country (winner)

Directors: Chapman Way and Maclain Way

Producer: Juliana Lembi

Executive Producers: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Josh Braun and Dan Braun

Netflix

Best Short Form Series

Guardian Documentaries

Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton

The Guardian Life Underground

Director: Hervé Cohen

La Huit production/Bellemoon Productions MEL Films (winner)

Executive Producer: David Freid The New York Times Op-Docs

Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo

The New York Times VICE on HBO

Executive Producers: Shane Smith, Tim Clancy, Subrata De, Jonah Kaplan and Josh Tyrangiel

HBO

Best Music Documentary

A Modern Man

Director: Eva Mulvad

Producers: Sigrid Dyekjær and Sidsel Lønvig Siersted

Rise and Shine World Sales Bathtubs Over Broadway

Director/Producer: Dava Whisenant

Producers: Amanda Spain and Susan Littenberg

Focus Features MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. (winner)

Director/Producer: Steve Loveridge

Producers: Lori Cheatle, Paul Mezey and Andrew Goldman

Abramorama Mr. SOUL! (winner)

Director/Producer: Melissa Haizlip

Co-Director: Samuel D. Pollard Whitney

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Producers: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn and Lisa Erspamer

Roadside Attractions

ABC News VideoSource Award

This award is given each year for the best use of news footage as an integral component in a documentary.

Jane Fonda in Five Acts

Director/Producer: Susan Lacy

Producer: Emma Pildes and Jessica Levin

HBO John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (winner)

Directors/Producers: Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt

HBO Love Means Zero

Director/Producer: Jason Kohn

Producers: Amanda Branson Gill, Anne White, Jill Mazursky and David Styne

Showtime Mercury 13

Directors/Producers: David Sington and Heather Walsh

Netflix Studio 54

Director: Matt Tyrnauer

Producer: Corey Reeser, Matt Tyrnauer and John Battsek Zeitgeist Films

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award

This award recognizes exceptional achievement in non-fiction film and video production at the university level and brings greater public and industry awareness to the work of students in the documentary field.

Abrázame

Director: Jas Doyle Pitt

National Film and Television School (United Kingdom) Circle (winner)

Director: Jayisha Patel

National Film and Television School (United Kingdom) Forced

Directors: Grace Oyenubi and Nani Walker

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Palenque

Director: Sebastián Pinzón Silva

Northwestern University School of Communication Walker's

Director: Kyle Myers-Haugh

University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Film Studies

Pare Lorentz Award Winner

The Pare Lorentz Award recognizes films that demonstrate exemplary filmmaking while focusing on the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems.

The Silence of Others (Recipient)

Directors/Producers: Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar

Cinephil/POV The Distant Barking of Dogs (Honorable Mention)

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont

Producer: Monica Hellstrøm

Cinephil

Creative Recognition Award Nominees & Winners

Best Cinematography

Crime + Punishment

Cinematographer: Stephen Maing Distant Constellation (winner)

Cinematographer: Shevaun Mizrahi Free Solo

Cinematographers: Jimmy Chin, Clair Popkin and Mikey Schaefer Taste of Cement

Cinematographer: Talal Khoury The Distant Barking of Dogs

Cinematographer: Simon Lereng Wilmont

Best Editing

Distant Constellation

Editors: Shevaun Mizrahi and Shelly Grizim Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Editor: RaMell Ross Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

Editors: Raúl de Torres and Daniel Urdiales Minding the Gap (winner)

Editors: Bing Liu and Joshua Altman The Stranger

Editor: Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen

Best Music Score

Bathtubs Over Broadway

Composer: Anthony DiLorenzo Bisbee '17 (winner)

Composer: Keegan DeWitt The Distant Barking of Dogs

Composers: Uno Helmersson and Erik Enocksson Hale County This Morning, This Evening (winner)

Composers: Scott Alario, Forest Kelley and Alex Somers MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.

Composers: Dhani Harrison and Paul Hicks

Best Writing