Bodil Film Awards (Denmark)
Best Documentary: Burma VJ (Dir.: Anders Ostergaard)
Honorary Bodil Award: Jorgen Leth

Cesar Awards (France)
Best Documentary: The Beaches of Agnès (Dir.: Agnès Varda)

Golden Reel Awards (Sound Editing)
Special Venue: Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation; Dir./Prod.: Greg MacGillivray; Supervising Sound Editor: Andrew R. DeCristofaro; Sound Designer: Tim Walston; Sound Designer: Michael Payne; Supervising Dialogue Editor: John Stuver; ADR Editor: Nancy Nugent-Title;
Music Editor: Steve Wood; Foley Artist: Jeffrey Wilhoit; Foley Artist: James Moriana;
Field Recordist and Dialogue Editor: Robert Walker; Foley Editor: Patrick Cusack)

Humane Society of the United States Genesis Awards
TV Documentary: Blinders (Dir.: Donnie Moss; Documentary Channel); Companions to None (PBS); National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth (Series Prod./Prod./Dir.: David Elisco; Prod./Dir.: Rob Whittlesey; Exec. prods.: Mark Shelley, Stephen Reverand; PBS); Planet in Peril: Battle Lines (Corrs.: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Lisa Ling; CNN)

MIPDOC International Trailblazers Awards
Marianna Kaat--European Trailblazer, selected by the European Documentary Network (EDN, Denmark).
Craig Matthew--African Trailblazer, selected by Encounters (South Africa)
Nahed Awwad--Middle East Trailblazer, selected by the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Qatar).
Robert Lang--North American Trailblazer, selected by the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC).
Mark Hartley--Australian Trailblazer, selected by the Australian Film Institute (AFI).
Jeong Ook Lee--Korean Trailblazer, selected by the EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF, Korea).
Ayumi Ito--Japanese Trailblazer, selected by the Association of All Japan TV Program Production Companies (ATP).

2) Festivals

Cinequest Film Festival
Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award: Heart of Stone (Dir.: Beth Toni Kruvant)

International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Audience Award for Documentary Film: Persian Cat Walk (Dir.: Marjan Alizadeh; Iran)

Magnolia Film Festival
Ron Tibbett Award for Excellence: Invisible Girlfriend (Dirs.: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin)

Portland International Film Festival
Audience Award--Best Documentary: Pressure Cooker (Dirs.: Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker); The Beaches Of Agnès (Dir.: Agnès Varda)