1)   Awards

Academy Awards--Best Original Song Contenders
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week 63 songs that were eligible in the Original Song category.  The following songs were featured in documentaries:
 "Fly Farm Blues" from It Might Get Loud
"I Bring What I Love" from Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love
"Legendary" from Tyson

American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI)
Bob Marley Award: Spike Lee

Austin Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

Chicago Film Critics Association
Best Documentary-Nominees:
Anvil!: The True Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Dir.: Michael Moore)
The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
Food, Inc. (Dir.: Robert Kenner)
Tyson (Dir.: James Toback)
Winner: Anvil!: The True Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)

Golden Satellite Awards
Best Documentary Feature: Every Little Step (Dirs.: Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern)

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

Indiana Film Critics
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
Runner-up: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

Las Vegas Critics Association
Best Documentary: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

New York Women in Film and Television's (NY-WIFT) Muse Awards
Loreen Arbus Award: Chicken and Egg Pictures

San Diego Film Critics Society
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)

San Francisco Film Critics Awards 
Best Documentary: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program--Grants
Development:
Rosa Rogers--Casablanca Calling (United Kingdom, Morocco)
Morocco's first female Muslim leaders set out to change their country.
Dara Kell--Dear Mandela (USA, South Africa)
Dear Mandela chronicles the year leading up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup through the eyes of three young leaders in South Africa's Shack Dwellers Movement as they face mass evictions, assassination attempts and a betrayal of the promises that came with the end of apartheid.
Laura Dunn--Forty Panes (USA)
This is a portrait of the world as lensed through the works of farmer, writer and activist Wendell Berry.
Bernardo Ruiz--Gardens of Paradise (USA; Mexico)
A series of interconnected stories illuminate the challenges facing the residents of Mexicali, a Mexican border city.
Kavita Pillay--My Good Name Is Stalin (USA, India)
My Good Name Is Stalin is the story of two young men named Stalin and Lenin in Kerala, India--home to the world's first democratically elected communist government--as they struggle to reconcile their shifting notions about communism and capitalism in the Age of Migration.
Mais Darwazah--My Love Awaits Me by the Sea (Jordan)
A woman takes a journey back to her Palestine. She meets Hasan, her imaginary lover, and through his fantasy world she finds the remnants of hope in characters living a harsh reality.

Production/Post-Production:
Jennifer Arnold--A Small Act  (USA)
A young Kenyan's life is changed dramatically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger.
Elinyisia Mosha--Untitled Tanzania Project  (Tanzania; USA)
Untitled Tanzania Project follows several compelling characters to explore the impact and progress of foreign investment in Tanzania during the lead up to the 2010 elections and the 50th anniversary of independence.
Carol Dysinger--Camp Victory, Afghanistan (USA)
Using almost 300 hours of footage shot over the course of three years, Camp Victory, Afghanistan tells the story of the Afghan officers charged with building a new Afghan National Army and the US National Guardsmen sent to mentor them.
Maria Teresa Rodriguez--Donde Estan?(USA, El Salvador)
Margarita Zamora, an investigator and a survivor of the civil war in El Salvador, tracks down disappeared children and reunites them with their families. Miguel Morales and Jenny Wolf--two disappeared children now residing in the US--represent the war's legacy of unemployment, violence and migration, a legacy that civil society--and the new Salvadoran government--are struggling to address. 
Qi Zhao--Fallen City (China)
Fallen City explores the depths of solitude, fear and loss experienced by the survivors of the earthquake in Beichuan, China.
Sara Terry--Fambul Tok  (USA)
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's brutal war come face to face in an unprecedented reconciliation program of grassroots truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. This film will change the way viewers think about Africa, forcing them to examine their own lives--and what the power of forgiveness can accomplish.
Elizabeth Mandel and Beth Davenport-- Rose and Nangabire (USA)
Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the ethnic violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo, yet she emerged from the suffering advocating peace and reconciliation. But after helping numerous survivors to recover and rebuild their lives, there is one person Rose must still teach to forgive: her daughter Nangabire.
Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon--Semper Fi: Always Faithful (USA)
A retired Marine fights for justice on behalf of US soldiers and their families exposed to toxic drinking water.
Henry Corra--The Disappearance of Mckinley Nolan (USA)
US Army Private McKinley Nolan vanished 40 years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier. Some say he was captured, some say he was a traitor, others claim he was killed in the Khmer Rouge genocide, and some even say he was an American operative. In 2005 a Vietnam Vet sighted him alive by near Tay Ninh, Vietnam. The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan follows one family's journey into the heart of darkness to find the truth.
Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss--The Redemption of General Butt Naked (USA)
Joshua Milton Blahyi, an African warlord turned Christian preacher, attempts to rebuild the shattered lives of those he commanded and brutalized during the civil war in Liberia.
Mahmoud Al Massad--This Is My Picture When I Was Dead (Jordan)
In 1983, 4 year-old Bashir is killed during the assassination of his father. The boy comes back to life to dig through his past.
Heather Courtney--Where Soldiers Come From  (USA)
Capturing the four-year journey of best friends Dominic and Cole from teenagers stuck in their town, to soldiers in Afghanistan, to young veterans starting a new life, Where Soldiers Come From is an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars, and the unspoken class system that sends them.

Audience Engagement:
Rebecca Cammisa--Which Way Home (USA)
Thousands of children, 1500 miles, and one dream: reaching the USA

Discretionary:
Gemma Atwal--Marathon Boy (United Kingdom, India)
The story of the youngest marathon runner ever. At 4, he's plucked from the poverty of an Indian slum by his coach. Extraordinary drama and tragedy ensue.

Sundance Reach Fund:
Michael Brown--25 to Life (USA)
After 25 years of secrecy, William Brawner is finally ready to tell the world that he's HIV-Positive.
Josh Fox--Gasland (USA).
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States, which uses a Halliburton-developed drilling technology called "fracking." But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. 
Blair Doroshwalther--The Fire This Time (USA)
Seven young African-American lesbians were attacked in the West Village of NYC in 2006. They defended themselves and were sent to prison.

Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary Feature: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)

United States Artists Fellowship Grants
The United States Artists Fellowship Program was launched in 2005, with seed money from leading foundations, in an effort to support individual American artists. Each year, the USA Fellows Program issues unrestricted $50,000 grants to 50 artists across a range of disciplines.
Among the Media Fellows, here are the documentary makers:
Charles Burnett, USA Broad Fellow, Los Angeles, California
Heather Courtney, USA Ford Fellow, Austin, Texas
Renée Tajima-Peña, USA Broad Fellow, Los Angeles, California

Utah Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
Runner-up: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

2) Festivals

Anchorage International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Tapped (Dir.: Stephanie Soechtig)
2^nd Place: Playground (Dir.: Libby Spears)
Runner-Up: A Sea Change (Dir.: Barbara Ettinger)
Best Short Documentary: A Time Comes (Dir.: Nick Broomfield)
Honorable Mention: Trip to Hell and Back (Dir.: Stu Maddox)
Runner-Up: Frequent Flyer (Dir.: Gabriel Leigh)

Bahamas International Film Festival
Spirit of Freedom: Documentary Award: Traces of the Trade (Dir.: Katrina Browne)

Dubai International Film Festival
First Prize: 12 Angry Lebanese--The Documentary (Dir.: Zeina Daccache; Lebanon)
Special Jury Prize: Garbage Dreams (Dir.: Mai Iskander; USA)
Second Prize: Al Awda Ela Al That (Back to One's Roots) (Dir.: Bilal Yousef; Qatar, Palestine)
Special Mention: Ashlaa (In Pieces) (Dir.: Hakim Belabbes; Morocco)
Muhr AsiaAfrica Awards-Documentaries:
First Prize: Futso No Shigoto Ga Shitai (A Normal Life, Please) (Dir.: Tokachi Tsuchiya; Japan)
Special Jury Prize: The Silver Fez (Dir.: Lloyd Ross; South Africa)
Second Prize: Lieux Saints (Sacred Places) (Dir.: Jean-Marie Teno; Cameroon, France)

Mammoth Film Festival
Best Documentary: My Run (Dir./Prod.: Tim VandeSteeg)

Potenza International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Countryside 35×45 (Dir.: Evgueniy Solomin; Russia)
Opera Prima Documentary: Branding Kosovo (Italia) di (Dir.: Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Italy)
Premio del Pubblico Documentary: Angeles City, Philippines (Dirs.:  Davide Arosio, Alberto Gerosa; Italy)

Queens International Film Festival
Best Domestic Documentary: Dhamma Dana (The Gift of Dhamma) (Dir.: Theodore Martland)
Best International Documentary: The Calling (Dir.: David Ranghelli; Peru)

River to River Florence Indian Film Festival
Best Documentary: Children of God (Dir.: Yi Seung-jun)

Santa Fe Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Mythic Journey (Dirs.: Steven and Whitney Boe)
Best Short Documentary: Sonabai (Dir.: David Berez)

Whistler Film Festival
Best Documentary: Pax Americana (Dir.: Denis Delastrac); Last Train Home (Dir.: Lixin Fax)