1) Awards

Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Best Animated Film: Waltz With Bashir (Dir./Wtr.: Ari Folman; Prods.: Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d'Ici, Razor Film Produktion, ARTE France, ITVS International) Best Documentary: 63 Years On (Dir./Prod.: Kim Dong Won; Prod.: Lee SeungGu)
The UNESCO Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film: Tinar (Dir./Prod.: Mahdi Moniri)

Environmental Media Awards
Best Documentary: Planet in Peril (Corrs.: Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Jeff Corwin; Prods.: A. Chris Gajilan, Heather O'Neill)

European Film Awards 2008-Documentaries among the Nominees
European Film Award 2008: Waltz With Bashir (Israel/France/Germany; Dir./Wtr.: Ari Folman; Prods.: Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d'Ici, Razor Film Produktion, ARTE France, ITVS International)
European Director 2008: Ari Folman for Waltz With Bashir
European Screenwriter 2008: Ari Folman for Waltz With Bashir
European Composer 2008: Max Richter for Waltz With Bashir

Louis Delluc Prize
Documentary: La Vie Moderne (Modern Life) (Dir. Raymond Depardon)
Louis Delluc First Film Prize: Elle s'appelle Sabine (Her Name Is Sabine) (Dir.: Sandrine Bonnaire)

Oregon Media Arts Fellowships:
Brian Lindstrom
Andrew Blubaugh
Lawrence Johnson.

2) Festivals

International Euro Arab Film Festival, Amal
Best Documentary: A Jihad for Love (Dir.: Parvez Sharma; Prod.: Sandi DuBowski)
Best Documentary Short Film: Borderlands (Dir.: Sawsan Derwaza)

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Best Documentary Film: Neshoba (Dirs.: Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano)
Audience Favorite Documentary: They Came to Play (Dir.: Alex Rotaru)
Spirit of Independent Documentaries: Truth in 24 (Dir.: Keith Cossrow); An Unlikely Weapon (Dir.: Susan Morgan Cooper); Kassim The Dream (Dir.: Kief Davidson)
Best Florida Doc: Airplay (Dir.: Chris Fox Gilson and Carolyn Travis)

Israel Film Festival
Audience Award-Best Documentary: Children of the Sun (Dir.: Ran Tal)

Lone Star International Film Festival
Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (Dir.: Eric Bricker)

Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival
Analog Digital Award for Best Documentary: Lakshmi (Dir.: Nishtha Jain)

Ojai Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: La Americana (Dir.: Nicholas Bruckman)
Honorable Mentions: An Unlikely Weapon (Dir.: Susan Morgan Cooper); Angels in the Dust (Dir.: Louise Hogarth); Life. Support. Music (Dir.: Eric Daniel Metzgar); The Recruiter (Dir.: Edet Belzberg)
Best Documentary Short: The Ladies (Dir.: Christine Voros)
Honorable Mentions: Pickin's & Trimmin' (Dir.: Matt Morris); Uncovered
(Dir.: Roger Weisberg)

Seville European Film Festival
Golden Giraldillo: The Mother (Dirs.: Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov)

Sheffield Doc/Fest
Audience Award: The Fallen (Dir.: Morgan Matthews
Runner-Up: Man on Wire Dir.: James Marsh
Wallflower Press Award for Best Student Documentary: Cyanosis (Dir.: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami/Tehran Art University
Youth Jury Award: The Order of Myths (Dir.: Margaret Brown)
Innovation Award: Seven Sins of England (Dir.: Joseph Bullman)

International Short Film Festival Berlin
Best Documentary/ZDFdokukanal Award: La Clase (Dir.: Beatriz Martinez Sanchis)
interfilm Documentary Award: Garcons Manqués (Dir.: Susan Gordanshekan)
Special Mention: Mr. P (Dir.: Nicole Nielsen Horanyi)

2009 International Wildlife Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award for Media:
Chris Palmer, President, MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation