1) Awards

Academy Awards

Forty-nine songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nominations in the Original Song category, including songs from the following documentaries:

"Djoyigbe" -Pray the Devil Back to Hell
"Drive" -Fuel
"Forever"
-They Killed Sister Dorothy
"Trouble the Water" -Trouble the Water

Austin Film Critics Association

Best Documentary
Film: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
Best Austin Film: Crawford (Dir.: David Modigliani)

Canwest-Hot Docs Completion Fund Recipients

Harmless (Prod.: Kristina McLaughlin; Dir.: Alan Zweig; Prod. Co.: Primitive Entertainment Inc.)
Land (Prods.: Paul Scherzer, Julian Pinder; Dir.: Julian Pinder; Prod. Co.: Six Island Films
Inc.)
Manners Maketh Men (Prods.: Amanda Handy, Mark Johnston; Dir.: Sarah Goodman; Prod. Co.: Nomad Films Inc.)
The Man Who Saved Geometry (Prod.: Danny Iron; Dir.: Daniel New; Prod. Co.: Foundry Films Inc.)
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (Prod.: Mila Aung-Thwin; Dir.: Omar Majeed;
Pro. Co.: EyeSteelFilm Inc.)

Canwest-Hot Docs Development Fund Recipients

Edges of Love (Prod./Dir.: Maureen Judge; Prod. Co.: Makin' Movies Inc.)
Pedophile? (Prod./Dir.: Barbara Shearer; Prod. Co.: Pink Slip Productions )
Tiananmen Square 20 Years Later (Prods.: Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross; Dirs.: Yung Chang, Shui-bo Wang; Prod. Co.: EyeSteelFilm Inc.)
When I Walk (Prod./Dir.: Jason DaSilva; Prod. Co.: In Face Films Inc.)

Chicago Film Critics Association

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

Runners-Up:

American Teen (Dir. Nanette Burstein)
Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father (Dir.: Kurt Kuenne)
IOUSA (Dir.: Patrick Creadon)
Standard Operating Procedure (Dir.: Errol Morris)

Best Animated Feature:
Runner-Up: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
Runners-Up:
Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)
Young @ Heart (Dir.: Stephen Walker)
Standard Operating Procedure (Dir.: Errol Morris)
Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father (Dir.: Kurt Kuenne)

Best Foreign-Language Film:
Runner-Up:
Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

Florida Film Critics Circle

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

The Golden Bugs (Sweden)

Best Documentary--Nominees
An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation (Dir.: Patrik Eriksson)
H:r landshovding (Dir.: Mans Mansson)
Maggie Wakes on the Balcony (Dirs.: Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark, Beatrice "Maggie" Andersson)

Houston Film Critics Association

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

indieWIRE Critics Poll

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

Las Vegas Film Critics Society's Sierra Awards

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

London Film Critics' Circle Awards

The Attenborough Award: British Film of the Year:
Nominee: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
Foreign Language Film of the Year:

Nominee: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

British Director of the Year:

Nominee:Terence Davies-Of Time and the City

National Society of Film Critics

Best Picture: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman

Best Non-Fiction Film: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures--Nominees
Man on Wire (Prod.: Simon Chinn)
Standard Operating Procedure (Prods.: Julie Bilson Ahlberg, Errol Morris)
Trouble the Water (Prods.: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin)

Satellite Awards

Best Documentary:
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (Dirs.: Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden) and Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

Toronto Film Critics Association

Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)

Utah Film Critics Association

Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
Runners-up:

Encounters at the End of the World (Dir.: Werner Herzog)
Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

Best Non-English Language Feature:
Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

2) Festivals

Dubai International Film Festival
Muhr Arabic Competition

Documentaries, First Prize: Memory of the Cactus: A Story of Three Palestinian Villages (Dir.: Hanna Musleh; Palestine)
Documentaries, Special Jury Prize: The One Man Village (Dir.: Samaan Bidiyaa; (Lebanon)

Second Prize: Sa'et Asary (At Day's End) (Dir.: Sherif El Bendary)

Muhr Asia-Africa Competition

Documentaries, First Prize: Mental (Dir.: Kazuhiro Soda; Japan/US)
Documentaries, Special Jury Prize: Survival Song (Dir.: Xiao Li Zi; China)

Second Prize: Une Affaire De Negres (Dir.: Osvalde Lewat)

International Film Festival Summit
Excellence Awards

International Category:
Professional Award: Keith Weckstein, Director of Ticketing, Tribeca Film Festival
Director Award: Mark Fishkin, Founder and Executive Director, California Film Institute
National Category:
Professional Award: Trevor Groth, Artistic Director, CineVegas Film Festival
Director Award: Gabe Wardell, Executive Director, Atlanta Film Festival
Regional Category:
Professional Award: Joanne Feinberg,
Director of Programming, Ashland Independent Film Festival
Director Award: Lee Ann Kim, Founder and Executive Director, San Diego Asian Film Festival