Here is a partial list of awards bestowed upon Independent Lens films over the years:

Academy Award Nominations

Hale County This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross — Best Documentary (2019)

I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck — Best Documentary (2017)

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick — Best Documentary (2013)

How to Survive a Plague by David France — Best Documentary (2013)

Hell and Back Again by Danfung Dennis — Best Documentary (2012)

Waste Land by Lucy Walker — Best Documentary (2011)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by Alex Gibney — Best Documentary (2006)

The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel — Best Documentary (2004)

Why Can’t We Be a Family Again? by Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel — Best Documentary Short (2002)

Emmy Awards Received

I Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck – Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary (2019)

Dawnland by Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip – Outstanding Research (2019)

Wildland by Kahlil Hudson and Alex Jablonski – Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary (2019)

Wildland by Kahlil Hudson and Alex Jablonski – Outstanding Editing: Documentary (2019)

TOWER by Keith Maitland – Best Historical Documentary (2018)

Forever Pure by Maya Zinshtein – Outstanding Politics & Government Documentary (2018)

The Armor of Light by Abigail Disney – Outstanding Social Issue Documentary (2017)

Best of Enemies by Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon – Outstanding Historical Documentary (2017)

In Football We Trust by Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn – Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary (2017)

(T)ERROR by Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe – Outstanding Investigative Documentary (2017)

The Homestretch by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly – Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form (2016)

Medora by Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart – Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting – Long Form (2015)

The Trials of Muhammad Ali by Bill Siegel – Outstanding Historical Documentary – Long Form (2015)

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick — Best Documentary of 2014

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick – Outstanding Investigative Journalism – Long Form (2014)

Detropia by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady — Outstanding Editing: Documentary and Long Form (2014)

Desert of Forbidden Art by Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev — Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music & Sound (2012)

The Woodmans by C. Scott Willis — Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming (2012)

Have You Heard From Johannesburg by Connie Field — Primetime Emmy Award for Special Merit in Nonfiction Film

Art & Copy by Doug Pray — Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming Emmy Award (2011)

Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life by Robert Levi — Best Documentary (2008)

A Lion in the House by Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar — Primetime Emmy, Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking (2007)

A Lion’s Trail by Francois Verster, Mark J. Kaplan, and Dan Jawitz — Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming (2006)

Be Good, Smile Pretty by Tracy Droz Tragos — Best Documentary (2004)

Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle by Jon Else — Best Documentary (2000)

George Foster Peabody Award

Hale Country This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross (2019)

Dolores by Peter Bratt (2018)

The Judge by Erika Cohn (2018)

Newtown by Kim Snyder (2017)

Trapped by Dawn Porter (2016)

India’s Daughter by Leslee Udwin (2015)

Brakeless by Kyoko Miyake (2014)

The House I Live In by Eugene Jarecki (2013)

How to Survive a Plague by David France (2013)

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick (2013)

Summer Pasture by Lynn True and Nelson Walker (2012)

Park Avenue by Alex Gibney (2012) (won as part of the Why Poverty? series).

Solar Mamas by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim (2012) (won as part of the Why Poverty? series).

Bhutto by Duane Baughman (2011)

Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian by Neil Diamond (2010)

Between the Folds by Vanessa Gould (2009)

The Order of Myths by Margaret Brown (2009)

King Corn by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis, and Ian Cheney (2008)

Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita by Maria Finitzo (2008)

Sisters in Law by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi (2007)

Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life by Robert Levi (2007)

Still Life with Animated Dogs by Paul Fierlinger (2001)

Travis by Richard Kotuk (1998)

duPont-Columbia Awards

The Revisionaries by Scott Thurman (2013)

Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman (2013)

Hell and Back Again by Danfung Dennis (2012)

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story by Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim (2008)

Seoul Train by Jim Butterworth and Lisa Sleeth (2006)

International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards

Winner of the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 IDA Award for Best Curated Series

(T)ERROR — Emerging Documentary Filmmaker (2015)

Best of Enemies — IDA/ABC News VideoSource Award & IDA Best Music Award (2015)

1971 — IDA/ABC News VideoSource Award (2014)

Limited Partnership — IDA Humanitas Award (2014)

Blood Brother — IDA Humanitas Award (2013)

Let the Fire Burn — IDA Best Editing (2013)

The Trials of Muhammad Ali — IDA ABCNews Videosource Award (2013)

For Once in My Life — IDA Music Documentary Award (2011)

Bhutto — IDA/ABC News Videosource Award (2011)

Have You Heard From Johannesburg? — Limited Series Award (2010)

Waste Land — IDA Pare Larentz Award (2010)

Waste Land — Best Documentary Award (2010)

Marwencol — Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award for Director Jeff Malmberg (2010)

Garbage Dreams — IDA Humanitas Award (2009)

Young@Heart — IDA Music Documentary Award (2008)

A Son’s Sacrifice — Short Documentaries (2007)

The New Americans — Limited Series Award (2003)

Imelda — IDA/ABC News Video Source Award (2003)

CINE Golden Eagle Award

The Desert of Forbidden Art by Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev (2010)

Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos by Juan Mandelbaum (2008)

Race to Execution by Rachel Lyon and Jim Lopes (2008)

The Paper by Aaron Matthews (2008)

Mirror Dance by Frances McElroy and Maria T. Rodriguez (2005)

Be Good, Smile Pretty by Tracy Droz Tragos (2004)

Sundance Film Festival Awards

The Force by Peter Nicks – Directing Award: U.S. Documentary (2017)

RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World, directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana – World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling (2017)

Unrest by Jen Brea – U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing (2017)

Winnie by Pascale Lamche – Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary (2017)

Trapped by Dawn Porter – Special Jury Award – Social Impact Filmmaking (2017)

Rich Hill by Tracy Droz Tragos & Andrew Droz Palermo – Grand Jury Documentary Prize

Happiness by Thomas Balmès — World Cinema Documentary Cinematography (2014)

Blood Brother by Steve Hoover — Audience Award (2013)

Blood Brother by Steve Hoover — Grand Jury Prize (2013)

The House I Live In by Eugene Jarecki — Grand Jury Prize (2012)

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering — Audience Award (2012)

Love Free or Die by Macky Alston — Special Jury Prize (2012)

Detropia by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady — Best Editing (2012)

A Film Unfinished by Yael Hersonski — World Cinema Documentary Editing Award (2010)

Waste Land by Lucy Walker — World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary (2010)

Brother to Brother by Rodney Evans — Special Jury Prize, Drama (2004)

Imelda by Ramona Diaz, Cinematographer: Ferne Pearlstein — Excellence in Cinematography Award, Documentary (2004)

Sing Faster: The Stagehands’ Ring Cycle by Jon Else — Filmmaker’s Trophy (1999)

Independent Spirit Award

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick — Best Documentary (2013)

The Waiting Room by Peter Nicks – Truer than Fiction Award (2013)

(T)ERROR and Best of Enemies — Best Documentary [nominated, 2016]

SXSW Film Festival

The Great Invisible by Margaret Brown, Grand Jury Documentary Prize

TOWER by Keith Maitland, Documentary Feature

Accidental Courtesy by Matt Ornstein, Special Jury Recognition for Portrait Documentary

I Am Another You by Nanfu Wang, Special Jury Recognition for Excellence in Documentary Storytelling; SXSW LUNA® Chicken & Egg Award

Slamdance Film Festival

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story by Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim — Audience Award (2006)

The Real Dirt on Farmer John by Taggart Siegel and Teri Lang — Audience Sparky Award, Best Documentary (2005)

Al Gore Reel Current Awards

Garbage Dreams by Mai Iskander (2009)

The Real Dirt on Farmer John by Taggart Siegel and Teri Lang (2005)

GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defmation) Media Awards

Ask Not by Johnny Symons (2010)

How to Survive a Plague by David France (2013)

Grierson British Documentary Award

Hell and Back Again by Danfung Dennis (2012)

The House I Live In by Eugene Jarecki (2013)

Cinema Eye Awards

Let The Fire Burn by Jason Osder — Outstanding Achievement in Editing (2014)

Detropia by Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady — Outstanding Direction for duo, and Outstanding Original Score (2013)

Directors Guild Award Nominations

The Invisible War by Kirby Dick — Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary (2012)

Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman (2013) — Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary (2012)

Japan Prize Award Received

Deaf Jam by Judy Lieff — Best Work of the Youth Category (2012)

NAACP Image Award

Through a Lens Darkly by Thomas A. Harris – Best Documentary

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