1) Awards

Doc Challenge Audience Award
A Healing Art (Team: Fly On The Wall; Seattle, Washington)

Film Independent Fast Track Fellows--Documentary
Better This World (Dirs./Prods.: Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway)
La Muñeca Fea (The Ugly Doll) (Dir.: George Reyes; Prod.: Nekisa Cooper)

Television Critics Association Awards
Outstanding Achievement in News & Entertainment:
60 Minutes (CBS)
The Alzheimer's Project (HBO)
Frontline (PBS)
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC)
We Shall Remain (PBS)

2) Festivals

Brooklyn International Film Festival
Best Documentary (AKA Diane Seligman Award): The Hillside Crowd (Dir.: Berni Goldblat)
Spirit Award-Documentary: The Sari Soldiers (Dir.: Julie Bridgham)
Audience Awards-Documentary: Between the Folds (Dir.: Vanessa Gould)

Documenta Madrid
First Prize of the Jury-Full-Length Film: Los que se Quedan (Dirs.: Carlos Hagerman,  Juan Carlos Rulfo; Mexico)
First Prize of the Jury-Full-Length Film: L'Argent du Charbon (Dir.: Wang Bing; France, China).
Honorable Mention of the Jury-Full-Length Film: Good Bye, How Are You (Dir.: Boris Mitic; Serbia)
Audience Award-Full-Length Film: La Ciudad de los Signos (Dir.: Samuel Alarcón; Spain)
First Prize of the Jury-Short Film: La Chirola (Dir.: Diego Antonio Mondaca Gutiérrez; Bolivia, Cuba)
Second Prize of the Jury-Short Film: My Mum, Dad, God and Satan (Dir.: Pawel Józwiak-Rodan; Poland)
Honorable Mention of the Jury-Short Film: Home Away from Home (Dir.: Marika Väisänen; Finland)
Audience Award-Short Film: La Chirola (Dir.: Diego Antonio Mondaca Gutiérrez;  Bolivia, Cuba)
First Prize Of The Jury-Reporting: Fixer: the Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (Dir.: Ian Olds; USA).
Second Prize of The Jury-Reporting: Coyote (Dir.: Chema Podríguez; Spain)
Honorable Mention of the Jury-Reporting: Porove Akhar (Dir.: Reza Haeri; Iran)
Audience Award-Reporting: Defamation (Dir.: Yoav Shamir; Israel, Denmark, USA)
First Prize of the Jury-Full-Length Film/National Competition: En enero, Quizás (Dir.: Diogo Costa Amarante)
Second Prize of the Jury-Full-Length Film/National Competition: Anás: An Indian Film (Dir.: Enric Miró)
Audience Award-Full-Length Film/National Competition: Palacio (Dirs.: Luis Alaejos, Raúl Díez Alaejos)
First Prize of the Jury-Short Film/National Competition: Triste Borracha (Dir.: Chema Rodríguez)
Second Prize of the Jury-Short Film/National Competition: Hombres de sal (Dir.: Manuel Jiménez)
Audience Award-Short Film/National Competition: La Esquina del Tiempo (Dir.: Carla Alonso Fernández de Avilés)
AVID Award for Best Editing: Soledad (Dir.: Ricardo Íscar)

CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival
Best Documentary Short: Skin (Dir.: Rhys Graham)
Best Animated Short: Slaves (Dirs.: Hanna Heilborn, David Aronowitsch)

Edinburgh International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Boris Ryzhy (Dir.: Aliona van der Horst)
Scottish Short Documentary Award: Peter in Radioland (Dir.: Johanna Wagner)

Frameline International LGBT Film Festival
Audience Award-Best Documentary: Training Rules (Dirs.: Dee Mosbacher, Fawn Yacker)

Los Angeles Film Festival
Target Documentary Award: Those Who Remain (Los Que se Quedan) (Dirs.: Juan Carlos Rulfo, Carlos Hagerman)
Best Documentary Short: Replayground (Dir.: Anna Gaskell)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Soul Power (Dir.: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte)
Audience Award for Best International Feature: Born Without (Nacido Sin) (Dir.: Eva Norvind)

Maui Film Festival
Audience Award--Feature Documentary: The Cove (Dir.: Louis Psihoyos)
Audience Award--Documentary Vision:  Rock Prophecies (Dir.: John Chester)
Audience Award--'Green' Documentary Feature:  Dirt! The Movie (Dirs./Prods.: Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow)
Audience Award--Spirit in Cinema Documentary Feature:  Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie (Dir./Prod.: Michelle Esrick)
Audience Award--'ChangeMaker' Documentary Feature:  Cash Crop (Dir.: Adam Ross)
Audience Award--World Cinema Documentary:  One Peace at a Time (Dir.: Turk Pipkin)
Audience Award--Best Hawaii Film :  Hawai'i: A Voice for Sovereignty (Dir.: Catherine Bauknight)
Audience Award-Documentary Short: Rwanda Gorilla Special (Dir.: Charles Annenberg Weingarten)

Message to Man International Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival
"Golden Centaur" Grand-Prix: Carmen Meets Borat (Dir.: Mercedes Stalenhoef; The Netherlands)
Prize "Centaur'-Best Short Documentary: Unemployed (Dir.: Nastya Tarasova)
National Competition "Gateway to Russia"-- Prize "Silver Centaur" for Best Documentary: Why! Are You Lacking Faith?! (Dir.: Matvei Troshinkin)
Prize "Silver Centaur" for Best Short Documentary: The Curtain (Dir.: Vladimir Golovniov)
Prize "Silver Centaur" for Best Documentary Debut: Wednesdays at the Station (Dir.: Olga Maurina)

Palm Springs International ShortFest
Audience Favorite--Documentary Short: Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial (Dirs.:  Jonathan Joiner, Robert H. Martin)
Best Documentary Short: Irene (Dir.: Lindsay Goodall)
Best Documentary Short--Second Place: Naming Pluto (Dir.: Ginita Jimenez)
Best Student Documentary Short: Waiting for Women (Esperando Mujeres) (Dir.: Estephan Wagner)
Best Student Documentary Short--Second Place: Nutkin's Last Stand (Dir.: Nicholas Berger)

Provincetown International Film Festival
Audience Award--Best Documentary: Herb and Dorothy (Dir.: Megumi Sasaki)
Filmmaker on the Edge Award: Guy Maddin

SilverDocs
Sterling US Feature Award: October Country (Dirs.: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher)
Sterling World Feature Award: Mugabe and the White African (Dirs.: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson)
Sterling Short Award: 12 Notes Down  (Dir.: Andreas Koefoed)
Special Jury Mention: Salt (Dirs.: Michael Angus, Murray Fredericks)
Music Documentary Award: Riseup (Dir.: Luciano Blotta)
Special Jury Mention: Soul Power (Dir.: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte)
Cinematic Vision Award: Old Partner (Dir.: Lee Chung-ryoul)
WITNESS Award: Good Fortune (Dir.: Landon Van Soest)
Writers Guild of America Documentary Screenplay Award: Off and Running (Wtr./Dir.: Nicole Opper)
ACE Grant Winner: Cinema Chimp (Dir.: David Grabias)
Feature Audience Award: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
Short Audience Award: 12 Notes Down  (Dir.: Andreas Koefoed)

Staten Island Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Return to Tarawa (Dir.: Steven C. Barber)
Best Documentary Short: Talkin Water (Dir.: Shannon Sonnenstein)
Audience Choice-Documentary: Talkin Water (Dir.:  Shannon Sonnenstein)

Sunny Side of the Doc
Best International Projects Showcase:
History: They Were Coming to Get Me (Dir.: Alvaro de al Barra; Prod.: Lupe Films; Chile)
Science: The Interpreter (Dir.: Antonio Perez Molero; Prod.: Inicia Films; Spain)
Environment: Burning Needs (Dir.: Adam Wakeling; Prod.: Notion Pictures; UK)
Society/Politics: Run for Life (Dir.: Mladen Maticevic; Prod.: Starhill D.o.o.; Serbia)
Art/Culture: Donkeymentary:Through the Eyes of a Donkey (Dirs.: Vardan Hovhannisyan, Arman Yeritsyan; Prod.: Bars Media; Armenia)
Cinema, Special and Series: Poor Consuelo Conquers the World (Dir.: Peter Friedman; Prod.: Escape Pictures; USA)

VISIONFEST 09
Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking: Sandhogs: The Greatest Tunnel Ever Built (Dir.: Eddie Rosenstein)
Domani Vision Filmmaker of the Year: Paul Osborne (Official Rejection)