1) Awards
A.C.E. Eddie Awards--Nominees
Documentary:
Bush's War (Editor: Steve
Audette)
Chicago 10 (Editor: Stuart Levy, A.C.E.)
Man on Wire (Editor: Jinx
Godfrey)
BBC Four World Cinema Achievement
Award: Werner Herzog
British Academy Film Awards--Nominees
Animated Film
(one of five nominees): Waltz
with Bashir (Dir.: Ari
Folman)
Editing (one
of five nominees): Man
on Wire (Editor: Jinx
Godfrey)
Foreign
Language Film (one of four nominees): Waltz
with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)
Visual Effects
(one of five nominees): Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)
California Council for the Humanities California
Documentary Project Awards for Film, Radio and New Media
At
18 (Prod.: Goro
Toshima)
CaliforniaNIOT.org
(Project Director: Patrice O'Neill)
Cambodian Community History-Archive Website (Project Director: Susan Needham)
Cruz Reynoso: A Man for All
Seasons (Prod.: Abby Ginzberg)
The Delano
Manongs: The Forgotten Heroes of the UFW (Prod.:
Marissa Aroy)
Green Shall Overcome
(Prod.: Megan Gelstein)
A Hammer in Her Hand
(Prod.: Maria Brooks)
The History of the Universe as
Told by Wonder Woman (Prod.: Kristy
Guevara-Flanagan)
My Life before Me (Prod.: Banker White)
Now En Español (Prod.: Andrea Meller)
Operation Popcorn
(Prod.: David Grabias)
Redevelopment Blues: The Legacy of West
Oakland (Prod.: Erin
FitzGerald)
Squeezebox Stories
(Prod.: Julie Caine)
Strand: A Natural History of Cinema (Prod.:
Christian Bruno)
Tom Bradley's Impossible Dream
(Prod.: Lyn Goldfarb)
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los
Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
(Prod.: William Deverell)
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Prod.: Arwen Curry)
Cinema
Audio Society--Nominees
Television-Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials:
American Idol: Season 7 Finale (Brian Riordan, CAS; Conner Moore)
Deadliest Catch: "No Mercy" (Bob Bronow, CAS)
Great Performances at the Met: La Boheme (Bill King, Ken Hahn, CAS; Jay Saks, John
Bowen
Great Performances: Company (Jorge Silva; Ken Hahn, CAS)
Steve Miller Band Live in Chicago (Andy Johns, Brian Slack)
Directors Guild of America Awards--Nominees
Documentary:
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the
Mountains (Dir.: Gonzalo Arijon)
The Judge and the General (Dirs.: Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricia Lanfranco)
Waltz with Bashir
(Dir.: Ari Folman)
At the Death House Door
(Dirs.: Peter Gilbert and Steve James)
Man on Wire (Dir.:
James Marsh)
Golden
Globe Awards
Best Foreign Film: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)
NAACP Image
Awards--Nominees
Best
Documentary:
The Black List (Dir./Prod.: Tomothy
Greenfied-Sanders; Prods.: Elvis Mitchell, Michael Slap Sloane; HBO)
Black Magic (Dir./Prod.: Dan Klores;
Prods.: Libby Geist, Earl Monroe, David Zieff; ESPN)
CNN Presents: Black in America (Corr.:
Soledad O'Brien; Prod.;/Dir./Editor: Dave Timko; CNN)
Dare Not Walk Alone (Dir./Prod.:
Jeremy Dean; Prods.: Stephen Cobb, Richard Mergener; DNWA Productions)
Trouble the Water (Dirs./Prods.: Carl
Deal and Tia Lessin; Zeitgeist Films)
Toronto Film Critics Association--Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award
My Winnipeg (Dir.: Guy Maddin)
Runners-Up: Continental, A Film Without Guns
(Dir.: Stephane Lafleur
Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)
Writers
Guild of America--Nominees
Best Documentary
Screenplay:
Boogie Man: The Lee
Atwater Story (Written by Stefan Forbes and Noland Walker; InterPositive
Media)
Chicago
10 (Written by Brett Morgen;
Roadside Attractions)
Fuel
(Written by Johnny O'Hara;
Greenlight Theatrical / Intention Media)
Gonzo:
The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (Screenplay by Alex
Gibney, from the words of Hunter
S. Thompson; Magnolia Pictures)
Waltz
with Bashir (Written by Ari
Folman; Sony Pictures Classics)
2) Festivals
CamboFest Film and Video Festival
Best Feature Documentary: A Life in Hashistan (Dir.: Tonya
Dreher; US/Afghanistan)
Best Short Documentary: Intestines of the Earth (Dir. Barbier Olivier)
History Makers Conference
Lifetime Achievement Award: Laurence Rees