ACE Eddie Awards
Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Editor: Jinx Godfrey)

Cinema Audio Society Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing
Television--Nonfiction, Variety or Music-Series or Specials: Deadliest Catch: No Mercy (Re-Recording Mixer: Bob Bronow, CAS)

Cinereach Grants
Cinereach has distributed more than $1.6 million in grants and achievement awards since its inception in 2006. Cinereach recently announced more than $250,000 in grants to ten works-in-progress and organizations that exemplify the nonprofit's commitment to socially-relevant, artistic filmmaking.
Here are the documentary grantees:
Marmato  (Dir. Mark Grieco) |
The Patron Saints  (Dirs.: Brian Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky)
Watchers of the Sky   (Dir.: Edet Belzberg)
Rooftop Films 2009 Summer Screening Series (Mark Rosenberg)

Genie Awards--Nominees
Best Documentary:
Infiniment Quebec (Dir.: Jean-Claude Labrecque)
My Winnipeg (Dir.: Guy Maddin)
Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)

Golden Reel Awards (Sound Editing)--Nominees
Best Sound Editing--Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Films: Waltz with Bashir (among eight nominees) (Sup. Sound Ed./Designer: Aviv Aldema; Sup. Dialogue Ed.: Adrian Baumeister; Sounds Effects Designer: Noemi Hampel; Music Ed.: Nili Feller; Foley Artist: Carsten Richter)

Irish Film and Television Awards
Lifetime Contribution Award: George Morrison
Current Affairs: Cocaine (Prime Time Investigates) (Dirs.: Paul Loughlin, Sean Mac Giolla Phadraig, Keelin Shanley; Prod.: Barry O'Kelly; RT)
Documentary Series: Bertie (Dir.: Steve Carson, Mint Productions; RT)
Single Documentary: Cromwell in Ireland (Dir.: Maurice Sweeney, Tile Films; RT)
Factual Programme: In The Name of the Fada (Dir.: Pat Comer, Peer Pressure Productions; RT)
Special Irish Language: In The Name of the Fada (Dir.: Pat Comer, Peer Pressure Productions; RT)

NAACP Image Awards
Documentary (theatrical or television): The Black List (Dir.: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Prod.: Elvis Mitchell; HBO)

George Polk Awards in Journalism
Documentary Reporting: Stefan Forbes (Dir./Prod.: Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story)

San Francisco Film Society--Herbert Family Filmmaking Grants
Christian Bruno: $5,000 (post-production): Strand: A Natural History of Cinema
Sam Green: $5,000 (post-production): The Universal Language
Jenni Olson: $5,000 (development): The Royal Road
Gemma Cubero: $2,500 (post-production): Ella Es el Matador (She Is the Matador)
Peter Nicks: $2,500 (development): Hope and High Water
Rick Tejada-Flores: $2,500 (production): The Road to Chulumani
Jack Walsh: $2,500 (production): Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer

2) Festivals

BaKa Forum
City of Basel Prize: Abi (Prods.: KRO Youth and IJswater Films; The Netherlands)
SRG SSR Idée Suisse Prize: Hochburg der Sünden (Bastion of Sin) (Dir.: Thomas Lauterbach; Germany)
Youth Jury Prize: On the Run (Prods.: Manden med Cameraet in co-production with DR, Danish Television, Denmark
International BaKaForum Proposal Prize: Lost Faces (Authors: Sofia Tzavella, Jordan Todorov, AGITPROP Ltd., Bulgaria)

Berlin International Film Festival
Cinema of Peace Award: The Heart of Jenin (Dirs.: Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter)
Crystal Bear--Best Short--Special Mention: Slaves (Dirs.: David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn)
DAAD Short Film Prize: The Illusion (Dir.: Susana Barriga; Cuba); Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag (Dir.: Lola Randl; Germany)
Special Mentions: VU (Dir.: Leila Albayaty); contre-jour (Dir.: Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller)
Panorama Audience Award: The Yes Men Fix The World (Dirs.: Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Kurt Engfehr)
Teddy Awards--Best Documentary: Fig Trees (Dir.: John Greyson)
Best Short: A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (Dir.: Barbara Hammer)

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Best Feature: Rough Aunties (Dir.: Kim Longinotto)
Artistic Vision: In a Dream (Dir.: Jeremiah Zagar)
Best Short: Bronx Princess (Dirs.: Musa Syeed, Yoni Brook)
Artistic Vision: The First Kid to Learn English From Mexico (Dir.: Peter Jordan)
Best MiniDoc: Jennifer (Dir.: Stewart Copeland)
Artistic Vision: The Secret Life of Beards (Dir.: Melanie Levy)
Big Sky Award: Red Gold Dirs.: Travis Rummel, Ben Knight)
Programmer's Choice Awards:
Best Editing: Crude (Editor: Joe Berlinger)
Best Cinematography: Ashes of American Flags (Dirs.: Brendan Canty, Christoph Green)
Best Music Doc: The Choir (Dir.: Michael Davie)

Pan African Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Cuba: An African Odyssey (Dir.: Jihan El-Tahri)
Honorable Mention: The End of Poverty? (Dir.: Philippe Diaz)
Best Documentary Short: Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre (Dirs.: Judy Richardson, Bestor Cram)
Honorable Mention: Faubourg Treme': The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (Dirs.: Dawn Logsdon, Lolis Eric Elie) Nubian Spir
Audience Award--Best Documentary Feature: Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Nile Valley (Dir.: Louis Buckley)
Director's Award--Best Documentary Feature: Milking the Rhino (Dir.: David E. Simpson)
Programmer's Award--Best Documentary Feature: Standing-n-Truth: Breaking the Silence (Dir.: Tim Daniels)