34th Annual IDA Documentary Awards Honorees
Award Nominees & Winners
Best Feature
Crime + Punishment |
Dark Money |
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Free Solo |
Hale County This Morning, This Evening |
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Minding the Gap (winner) |
Of Fathers and Sons |
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Sky and Ground |
The Silence of Others |
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United Skates |
Won't You Be My Neighbor? |
Best Short
Black Sheep |
Fear Us Women |
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Lifeboat |
Los Comandos |
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Mosul |
Sidelined |
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The Girl and the Picture |
We Are Not Done Yet |
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We Became Fragments |
Zion (winner) |
Best Audio Documentary
30 for 30 Podcasts: Bikram |
Caliphate (winner) |
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Heavyweight-Episode: Jesse |
Latino USA - Episode: The Quevedos |
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Slow Burn Season 2 |
Best Curated Series
American Masters |
Doc World |
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Independent Lens |
POV (winner) |
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Why Slavery? |
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Best Episodic Series
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown |
Christiane Amanpour: Sex & Love Around the World |
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ESPN Films: Enhanced |
Last Chance U |
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The Confession Tapes |
The Trade (winner) |
Best Limited Series
Best Shot |
Bobby Kennedy for President |
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Flint Town |
November 13: Attack on Paris |
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Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story |
Wild Wild Country (winner) |
Best Short Form Series
Guardian Documentaries |
Life Underground |
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MEL Films (winner) |
The New York Times Op-Docs |
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VICE on HBO |
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Best Music Documentary
A Modern Man |
Bathtubs Over Broadway |
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MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. (winner) |
Mr. SOUL! (winner) |
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Whitney |
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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 |
John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (winner) |
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Love Means Zero |
Mercury 13 |
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Studio 54 |
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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 |
Circle (winner) |
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Forced |
Palenque |
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Walker's |
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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) |
The Distant Barking of Dogs (Honorable Mention) |
Creative Recognition Award Nominees & Winners
Best Cinematography
Crime + Punishment |
Distant Constellation (winner) |
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Free Solo |
Taste of Cement |
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The Distant Barking of Dogs |
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Best Editing
Distant Constellation |
Hale County This Morning, This Evening |
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Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle |
Minding the Gap (winner) |
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The Stranger |
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Best Music Score
Bathtubs Over Broadway |
Bisbee '17 (winner) |
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The Distant Barking of Dogs |
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (winner) |
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MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. |
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Best Writing
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? |
Of Fathers and Sons |
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The Other Side of Everything (winner) |
People's Republic of Desire |
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Wild Relatives |
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