1)   Awards

Previously reported: Academy Awards

California Council for the Humanities' 2010 California Documentary Project

Production Grants
Everyday Sunshine, $40,000 (Producers: Lev Anderson and Christopher Metzler)
A Fierce Green Fire, $30,000 (Producer: Mark Kitchell)
Forty Winters, $50,000 (Director: Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan)
Heartbreak and Heroism: Stories from the Plague Years in San Francisco, $40,000 (Director: David Weissman)
The History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman, $40,000 (Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Producer: Kelcey Edwards)
Mobile Hi Fi, $10,000 (Directors: Mike Blockstein and Reanne Estrada)
Seeking Asian Female, $30,000 (Director: Debbie Lum, Producer: Cianna Stewart)
The Waiting Room, $20,000 (Producer: Peter Nicks)

Research & Development Grants
Adios Amor-The Search for Maria Moreno, $7,000 (Producer: Laurie Coyle)
Asian American Art Film, $7,000 (Director: Steven Okazaki, Producer: Stephen Ujlaki)
The Bakersfield Sound, $7,000 (Producer: Andrew Chambers)
Big Jay, $7,000 (Producer: Adam Hyman)
Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle, $5,000 (Producer: Phillip Rodriguez)
Siqueiros and His América Tropical, $7,000 (Producer: Lorena Manríquez)
Zydeco in Northern California: Ethnic Identity in a Migrant Community, $5,000 (Producer: Richard Ziglar)

DGA Awards
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Louie Psihoyos (The Cove)

History Makers Awards
Best History Production - Busting the Berlin Wall (Dir.: Oliver Halmburger;  ZDF Enterprises, Germany)
Best Use of Archive in a History Production: Apocalypse: The Second World War (Prod.: Louis Vaudeville; Clarke, Costelle & Cie in association with France Télévisions / Smithsonian Networks, US)
Best Current Affairs Production: Iran and the West (Series Prod.: Norma Percy; Brook Lapping Productions, UK)
Best Use of Archive in a Current Affairs Production - Trouble the Water (Dirs.: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin; HBO, USA)
Most Innovative Production: Generals at War (Series Prod.: Kate Barker; Windfall Films, UK)

International Cinephile Society Awards--Nominees
Documentary
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
The Beaches of Agnès (Dir.: Agnès Varda)
The Cove (Dir.: Louis Psihoyos)
Of Time and the City (Dir.: Terence Davies)
The September Issue (Dir.: R.J. Cutler)

Orange British Academy Film Awards--Nominees
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer-Documentary Nominee:  Mugabe and the White African (Dirs.: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson; Prods.: Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson)

PGA Awards

Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:
The Cove (Prods.: Paula DuPre Pesman, Fisher Stevens)

2) Festivals

Previously reported: Sundance Film Festival

      Slamdance

IndieWire Poll--Best Films at Sundance
Best Competition Films--Documentaries
1. Gasland (Dir.: Josh Fox, US) 
2. 12th & Delaware (Dirs.: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing; US) 
4. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Dirs.: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg; US)
5. Last Train Home (Dir.: Lixin Fan; World)
6. Waiting for Superman (Dir.: Davis Guggenheim; US)
7. Restrepo (Dirs.: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington; US)
9. The Oath (Dir.: Laura Poitras; US)
10. The Tillman Story (Dir.: Amir Bar-Lev; US)

Ten Best Non-Competition Films--Documentaries
1. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Dir.: Banksy, Spotlight)
6. Catfish (Dir.: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman; Spotlight)
8. Cane Toads: The Conquest (Dir.: Mark Lewis; Premieres)
10. Teenage Paparazzo (Dir.: Adrian Grenier; Spotlight)