1) Awards

Content 360 (an international digital and multiplatform content competition that took place at MIPTV in Cannes, France)-Documentary Projects:
Interactive documentaries on Green Issues--Hand Drawn Earth  (Dir./Prod.: Kirsty Semple; Space Creatives/UK)
Factual Content via your Mobile--The Great British Summer Holiday (Dir./Prod.:Andy Glynne; Mosaic Films/UK) 

Genie Awards (Canada)
Best Documentary: Up the Yangtse (Dir.: Yung Chang)

Gracie Awards (American Women in Radio & Television)
Outstanding Director--News Series or Special: Sharon Liese (High School Confidential; WeTV)
Outstanding Documentary--Short Format: Child Soldiers, D.R. Congo (Prod.: NBC News)
Outstanding Documentary--Mid-Length Format: CNN Presents: Sarah Palin Revealed (Corr.: Drew Griffin; CNN); Who Cares About Girls: Sex Workers or Victims (Corr.: Lisa Ling; Oxygen)
Outstanding Documentary--Long Format: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (Dir./Prod.: Lisa F. Jackson; HBO)
Outstanding Portrait/Biography: E! True Hollywood Story: Mariska Hargitay (E! Entertainment Television)
Outstanding Reality Show: High School Confidential (Dir./Prod.: Sharon Liese; WeTV); Ruby (Prod./Exec. Prod.: Gay Rosenthal; The Style Network)

Peabody Awards

Black Magic (Dir./Prod.: Dan Klores; Prods.: Earl Monroe, Libby Geist, David Zieff; ESPN Original Entertainment, in collaboration with Shoot the Moon Productions)

Crossfire: Water, Power and Politics (Investigative Reporter: George Knapp; Photojournalist: Matt Adams; KLAS-TV, Las Vegas)

Depression: Out of the Shadows (PBS) (Prods.: Larkin McPhee, Laurie Donnelly, Phylis Geller; Twin Cities Public Television, WGBH Boston)

Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes (Reporter: John Ferrugia; Prods.: Art Kane, Tom Burke; Photojournalist: Jason Foster; KMGH-TV, Denver)

The Gates (Dirs./Prods.: Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Matthew Prinzing; Maysles Films in association with HBO Documentary Films and CVJ)

Hear and Now (Dir./Prod.: Irene Taylor Brodsky; HBO Documentary Films in association with Vermillion Films, Inc.)

Hopkins (Exec. Prod./Prod.: Terence Wrong; Senior Exec. Prod.: Rudy Bednar; ABC News)

Independent Lens: King Corn (Dir./Prod.: Aaron Woolf; prods.: Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis; Mosaic Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS)

Independent Lens: Mapping Stem Cell Research-Terra Incognita (Dir./Prod.: Maria Finitzo; Kartemquin Educational Films, Independent Television Service, PBS)

Nanking (Dirs.: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturnam; Prods.: Ted Leonsis, Michael Jacobs; A Ted Leonsis Production in association with HBO Documentary Films)

NOAH Housing Program Investigation (Reporter: Lee Zuirk; WWL-TV, New Orleans)

NOVA: Ape Genius (Dir./Prod.: John Rubin; NOVA, National Geographic Television, John Rubin Productions, Inc.PBS)

P.O.V.: Campaign (Dir./Prod.: Soda Kazuhiro; Laboratory X Inc., American Documentary Inc., P.O.V., Center for Asian American Media PBS)

The Red Race (Dir.: Chao Gan; NDR Fernsehen, Shanghai Media Group Shanghai TV Station)

Sports Emmy Awards--Nominees
Outstanding Sports Documentary: 
Big Ten Short Stories:  Friends of Jaclyn Special Edition (Big Ten Network)
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football   (Prod.: Joe Lavine; Exec. prods.: Ross Greenburg, Rick Bernstein; HBO Sports)
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (HBO Sports)
Jose Canseco:  Last Shot (Prods.: Hank Cohen, Jason Hehir, Scott Lonkjer, Tom Moody, Rob Sharenow; A&E)
The Streak  (Prod.: Mark Consuelos, Milojo Productions, ESPN2)

2) Festivals

AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Target Documentary Feature Competition:
Grand Jury Prize: Prom Night in Mississippi (Dir./Prod.: Paul Saltzman; Prod.: Patricia Aquino)
Special Jury Prize: Suddenly, Last Winter (Dirs.: Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi)
Current Energy Filmmaker Award:  Crude (Dir./Prod.: Joe Berlinger; Prods.: Michael Bonfiglio, JR DeLeon, Richard Stratton)
Audience Award--Documentary Feature: Rock Prophecies (Dir.: John Chester; Prod.: Tom Kaiser)

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film: On The Third Planet From The Sun (Dir.: Pavel Medvedev)
Life Force Award: Kassim The Dream (Dir./Prod.: Kief Davidson; Prod.: Liz Silver)

Celtic Media Festival
The Spirit of the Festival Award: Dringo i'r Eitha (Extreme Climbing) (Prod.: Cwmni)
Factual Series: Girls Behind Bars (Prod.: FrielKean Films; BBC Scotland)
Factual Single:  Mum and Me (Prod.: Wellpark Productions)
Education: Na Dódaí (Prod.: Imagine Media; BBC Northern Ireland)
Arts: Patrick McCabe: Blood Relations (Prods.: Midas Productions, Mass Productions; RTÉ)
Jury Award: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (Dir./Prod.: Louise Lockwood; BBC Scotland)

Chicago International Movies and Music Festival
Best Documentary Feature: 16 Days in China (Dir.: Martin Atkins)
Best Documentary Short: Fresh Off the Boat (Dir.: Katrina Lucas)

Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival
Best of the Festival: Invisible Girlfriend (Dirs./Prods.: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin)

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Anne Dellinger Grand Jury Award: Burma VJ (Dir.: Andres Østergaard)
Special Jury Award: Unmistaken Child (Dir.: Nati Baratz)
Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short: 12 Notes Down (Dir.: Andreas Koefoed)
Honorable Mention: La Chirola (Dir.: Diego Mondaca)
Honorable Mention: The Flying Shepherd (Dir.: Catalin Musat)
Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award: Burma VJ (Dir.: Andres Østergaard)
The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award: Voices from El-Sayed
Honorable Mention:  Unmistaken Child (Dir.: Nati Baratz); William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (Dirs.: Sara Kunstler, Emily Kunstler)
Full Frame Audience Award: The Way We Get By (Dir.: Aron Gaudet)
HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award: Love on Delivery (Dir.: Janus Metz)
Honorable Mention: 45365 (Dirs.: Bill Ross, Turner Ross); California Company Town (Dir.: Lee Anne Schmitt)
Full Frame Inspiration Award: Unmistaken Child (Dir.: Nati Baratz)
Full Frame President's Award: Oil Blue (Dir.: Elli Rintala)
Full Frame/Working Films Award: Burma VJ (Dir.: Andres Østergaard)
The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights: Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech (Dir.: Liz Garbus)

Rome Independent Film Festival
Best Documentary: Another Planet (Dir.: Ferenc Moldoványl)
Special Mention: "Almeno io Fo...à" to (Dirs.: Alan Bacchelli, Lorenzo Degl'Innocenti)

Tiburon International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Final Image (Dir.: Andres Habegger)
Best Musical Film: Paraíba Meu Amor (Dir.: Bernard Robert-Charrue)