1) Awards

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

British Academy of Film and Television Arts Children's Awards
Factual: Serious Ocean (Dir.: Marshall Corwin; Prod.: CBBC)
Secondary Learning: Troubled Minds (Dir.: Andy Glynne; Prod.: Mosaic Films; Teachers TV)
Primary Learning: Off by Heart (Dirs.: Antonia Bird, Rebecca Simor; Prods.: Silver River with BBC Learning; BBC2)

Film Independent Spirit Awards--Nominations
Best Documentary:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
Food, Inc. (Dir.: Robert Kenner)
More Than a Game (Dir.: Kristopher Belman)
October Country (Dirs.: Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri)
Which Way Home (Dir.: Rebecca Cammisa)

Truer Than Fiction Award
Natalia Almada (El General)
Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo)
Bill Ross, Turner Ross (45365)

Golden Satellite Awards-Nominations
Best Documentary Feature:
The Beaches of Agnes (Dir.: Agnès Varda)
The Cove (Dir.: Louis Psihoyos)
Every Little Step (Dirs.: Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern)
It Might Get Loud (Dir.: Davis Guggenheim)
The September Issue (Dir.: R.J. Cutler)
Valentino: The Last Emperor (Dir.: Matt Tyrnauer)

Best Sound (Mixing and Editing)--Documentary Nominee: It Might Get Loud (Sound Ed.: Joel Daugherty; Sound Mixer: Chuck Fitzpatrick)
Best Cinematography--Documentary Nominee: It Might Get Loud (Cinematographers: Guillermo Navarro, Erich Roland)
Best Film Editing--Documentary Nominee:  It Might Get Loud (Editor: Greg Finton)

Gotham Awards
Best Documentary:  Food, Inc. (Dir./Prod.: Robert Kenner; Prod.: Elise Pearlstein)

HBO/NALIP Documentary Latino Filmmaker Documentary Competition: William Caballero (American Dreams Deferred)

History Makers 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor Guido Knopp, Head of History at ZDF

International Emmy Awards
Arts Programming: The Mona Lisa Curse (Dir.: Mandy Chang; Prods.: Oxford Film & Television for Channel 4; Writer/Presenter: Robert Hughes: United Kingdom)
Documentary: The Ascent of Money (Writer/Presenter: Niall Ferguson; Prods.: Chimerica Media/Education Broadcasting Corporation for Channel 4; United Kingdom)
Best Non-Scripted Entertainment: The Phone (Prods.:  Park Lane Productions; The Netherlands)

Kodak Inside Film Awards (Australia)
The FACB IF Award for Best Documentary: The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (Dir.: Michael James Rowland; Prod.: Nial Fulton)
The Production Book IF Award for Best Short Documentary: Mankind Is No Island (Dir.: Jason Van Genderen)

L'alternativa 2009 Awards
Documentary Feature Award: O'er the Land (Dir.: Deborah Stratman; USA)
Special Mention Documentary Feature: Archipels Nitrate (Dir.: Claudio Pazienza;  Belgium/France)

Rory Peck Trust Impact Award: Saving Africa's Witch Children (Dir.: Joost van der Valk)

2) Festivals

International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA)
VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary: Last Train Home (Dir.:  Lixin Fan; China/Canada)
Special Jury Award: The Most Dangerous Man in America (Dirs.: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith; USA)
NPS IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary: Iron Crows (Dir.: Bong-Nam Park; South Korea)
IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary: Six Weeks  (Dir.: Marcin Janos Krawczyk; Poland)
IDFA Award for First Appearance: Colony (Dirs.: Ross McDonnell, Carter Gunn; Ireland/USA)
Nederland 2 IDFA Audience Award: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos; USA)
Dioraphte IDFA Award for Dutch Documentary: The Player (Dir.: John Appel)
IDFA Award for Student Documentary: Redemption  (Dir.: Sabrina Wulff; Germany)
IDFA DOC U! Award: The Yes Men Fix the World (Dirs.: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno; USA)
Media Fund Documentary Award: The Thirteenth Man [De dertiende man] (Dir.: Martijn Blekendaal)

Lone Star International Film Festival
Documentary Feature Competition:
Grand Jury Prize: Garbage Dreams (Dir.: Mai Iskander)
Special Jury Mention: Petition (Dir.: Zhao Liang)

MIAAC Indian Film Festival

Best Documentary Award: The Salt Stories (Dir.: Lalit Vachanti)

Ojai-Ventura International Film Festival 2009
Best Documentary Short: Watershed Revolution (Dir.: Rich Reid)
Best Documentary Feature: American Outrage (Dirs.: George Gage, Beth Gage)
Festival Theme Award: Garbage Dreams (Dir.: Mai Iskander)

Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) 
Camera Stylo Award: The Sound of Insects--Record of a Mummy (Dir.: Peter Liechti)
Camera at the Ready Award: Defamation (Dir.: Yoav Shamir)
Doc Tape Award:  Episode III--Enjoy Poverty (Dir.: Renzo Martens)
Ecocamera Award: Les damnés de la mer (Dir.: Jawad Rhalib)
Honourable Mention: H2Oil (Dir.: Shannon Walsh)
First Camera Award: Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel (Dir.: Ari Libsker)
Editing Award: October Country (Dirs./Editors: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher)
Image Award: War + love in Kabou (Dir.: Helga Reidemeister)
Honourable Mention: Plomb durci (Dir.: Stefano Savona)
Cinémathèque Québécoise Award for Best Film from Quebec/Canada: Last Train Home (Dir.: Lixin Fan)
Quebec/Canada Best Hope Award Presented by the NFB (Programme Acic-Canada): Kitakinan--Notre territoire à tout le monde (Dir.: Serge Bordeleau)
Audience Award: La dérive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Goâve (Dir.: Pedro Ruiz)

10th Student and Short Films Festival Sleepwalkes
Prize for the Best Documentary: Arsy Versy  (Dir.: Miro Remo; Slovakia)

X-Dance
Lifetime Achievement Award: Warren Miller