1)   Awards

Alliance of Women Film Journalists
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
Perseverance Award: Agnès Varda
Lifetime Achievement Award: Agnès Varda
AWFJ Award for Humanitarian Activism: Rebecca Cammisa for Which Way Home

The Boston Society of Film Critics
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)

Broadcast Film Critics Awards--Nominees
Best Documentary Feature:
Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Dir.: Michael Moore)
The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
Food, Inc. (Dir.: Robert Kenner)
Michael Jackson's This Is It (Dir.: Kenny Ortega)

Canwest-Hot Docs Completion Fund
Behind The Scenes at Kinngait Studios (Dir.: Annette Mangaard; Prods.: David Craig, Katherine Knight; Prod. Co.: Site Media Inc.)
Set in the Canadian Arctic, the film weaves together many voices in a first-hand account of how the remote settlement of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, has become the capital of the Inuit art world.
Grinder (Dir./Prod.: Matt Gallagher; Prods.: Cornelia Principe, Matt Gallagher; Prod. Co.: Border City Productions)
Grinder is the director's journey into the unconventional--and often bizarre-- underground world of those who play poker for a living.
Raw Opium (Dir.: Peter Findlay; Prod.: Robert Lang; Prod. Co.: Kensington Communications Inc.)
Raw Opium travels the world to offer an intimate and broad-ranging exploration of a commodity that has gone from being a "gift of the gods" to a scourge on society.
The Real M*A*S*H (Dir.: Min Sook Lee; Prod.: Ed Barreveld; Prod. Co.: Storyline Entertainment)
The Real M*A*S*H traces the original stories and the people behind them that inspired the fictional TV series and feature film about the Korean War.
A Strange Brew--The End of Addiction (Dirs.: Mark Johnston, Mark Ellam; Prods.: Amanda Handy, Robin McKenna; Prod. Co.: Nomad Films Inc.)
Guided by botanist Dr. Adam Brown, a man with a keen sense of curiosity and a taste for adventure, A Strange Brew takes us on a fascinating journey in an effort to unlock the secrets of plants that could play an important role in our common future.

Canwest-Hot Docs Development Fund
9.79: The Rise and Fall of Ben Johnson (Dir.: Clement Virgo; Prod.: Damon D'Oliveira; Prod. Co.: Conquering Lion Pictures)
9.79 chronicles the legendary rise and fall of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson. With the emergence of new evidence on the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in competitive sport, was Johnson set-up when he tested positive for steroids during the 1988 Olympics?
Ariel (Dir./Prod.: Laura Bari; Exec. Prod.: Mila Aung-Thwin; Prod. Co.: EyeSteelFilm)
Three years after undergoing a double amputation following a work accident, Ariel, a 33-year-old Argentine man, decides to design and build his own prosthetic legs, strengthening his will to survive and persevere.
Green to the End (Dir.: Kim Harris; Prod.: Julia Bennett; Prod. Co.: Snug Harbour Films Inc.)
Green to the End follows two feisty sisters who, determined to spend no money and leave no footprint, go on the road to find a carbon-zero funeral.
Invisible War: Secrets of the Ho Chi Minh Trail (Dir.: Michael Maclear; Prod.: Linda Stregger; Exec. Prod.: Barbara Barde; Prod. Co.: Take 3 Productions Inc.)
America's decade of combat in Vietnam centred on the so-called Ho Chi Minh Trail, yet no armies confronted each other there. Invisible War will take an in-depth look at the legendary Trail and those who endured eight years of continuous US saturation bombing.
Operation Soap (Dir./Prod.: James Wood; Exec. Prod.: Jerry McIntosh; Prod. Co.:  21D Productions Inc.)
On February 5, 1981, at 11 p.m., Toronto police conducted simultaneous raids, dubbed Operation Soap, on four gay bathhouses. With first person accounts, archival footage and dramatic re-enactments, Operation Soap examines the raids and the 48 hours after in which the Canadian gay movement was born.
Taxi School(Dir./Prod.: Wendy Champagne; Prod.: Denis McCready; Exec. Prod.:  Sylvie Van Brabant; Prod. Co.:  Producions du Rapide-Blanc)
Set in Montreal, Taxi School will explore the lives of recent immigrants to Canada through the window of a taxi school, where they end up after exhausting their search for work in their own fields.

European Film Awards
European Film Academy Documentary 2009 - Prix ARTE:  The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy (Dir.: Peter Liechti; Switzerland

Golden Horse Awards (Taiwan)
Best Documentary: KJ: Music and Life (Dir.: Cheung King-Wai)
Best Film Editing: KJ: Music and Life (Editor.: Cheung King-Wai)
Best Sound Effects: KJ: Music and Life (Sound Editor: Cheung King-Wai)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos); The Beaches of Agnès (Dir.: Agnès Varda)

New York Film Critics' Circle Award
Best Non-fiction Film: Of Time and the City (Dir.: Terence Davies)

New York Film Critics Online
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)

Southeastern Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: Food, Inc. (Dir.: Robert Kenner)
Runner-up: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)

St. Louis Film Critics Association
Best Documentary-Nominees:
Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Dir.: Michael Moore)
Food, Inc. (Dir.: Robert Kenner)
Good Hair (Dir.: Jeff Stinson)
Tyson (Dir.: James Toback

2) Festivals

Évora International Short Film Festival
Best Documentary: The Solitary Life of Cranes  (Dir.: Eva Weber)
Best Cinematography:

The Solitary Life of Cranes (Dir.: Eva Weber)

GZ Doc (Guangzhou, China)
Grand Jury Prize: Forgetting Dad (Dir.: Rick Minnich)