1) Awards

American Cinematheque Sydney Pollock Award:
Geoffrey Gilmore/Sundance Film Festival

British Independent Film Awards
Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh; Prod.: Simon Chinn)
Best Foreign Film: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting
Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic: Deadly Brew: The Human Toll of Ethanol (Exec. Prod.: Karin Annus; Prod.: Randy Martin; Anchor: Mike Schneider; Bloomberg)

IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards
Best Documentary: Trouble The Water (Dirs.: Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)

Independent Spirit Awards Nominees
Documentary:
The Betrayal (Dirs.: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath)
Encounters at the End of the World (Dir.: Werner Herzog)
Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
The Order of Myths (Dir.: Margaret Brown)
Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)

Truer Than Fiction Award
Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths)
Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil)
Darius Marder (Loot)

International Emmy Awards
Best Arts Programming: Strictly Bolshoi )Ballet Boyz Productions for Channel 4; UK)
Best Documentary: The Beckoning Silence (Darlow Smithson Productions/C4/C4i;
UK)

Latino Public Broadcasting Open Call Grantees
Animas Perdidas (Prod.: Monika Navarro)
Beautiful Sin (Prod.: Gabriela Quiros)
Cruz Reynoso: A Man for all Seasons (Prod.: Abby Ginzberg)
A Death in Mexico (Prod.: Xochitl Dorsey)
¿Donde Estan? The Disappeared Children of El Salvador (Prods.: Maria Teresa Rodriguez/Katherine Pyle)
Give Us Your Retired, Your Rich, Your Americans (Prod.: Anayansi Prado)
Las Marthas (Prod.: Cristina Ibarra)
Latin Music USA (Prod.: WGBH/Elizabeth Dean/Adriana Bosch)
Making Viva Max (Dir./Prod.: Jim Mendiola/Faith Radle)
Mariachi High (Prod.: Ilana Trachtman)
Mexican Pipe Dream (Prod.: David Ruiz Marquez)
New Muslim Cool (Prod.: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor)
Now en Español (Prod.: Andrea Meller)
Our Women, Our Struggle (Prod.: Melissa Montero)
The Third Root (Prod.: Reed Rickert)
Two Trinities (Prod.: Sandra Guardado)

Satellite Awards Nominees
Motion Picture, Documentary
Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Dir.: Gini Reticker)
Encounters at the End of the World (Dir.: Werner Herzog)
Religulous (Dir.: Larry Charles)
Anita O'Day--The Life of a Jazz Singer (Dirs.: Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden)
Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

2) Festivals

Brasilia Film Festival
Special Candango Award: On the Fringes of Sao Paulo: Garbage (Dir.: Evaldo Mocarzel)
Cinematography Award: On the Fringes of Sao Paulo: Garbage (Gustavo Hadba and Andre Lavenere )
Audience Award: On the Fringes of Sao Paulo: Garbage (Dir.: Evaldo Mocarzel)

CPH:DOX 2008
Jury Award: Burma VJ (Dir.: Anders Østergaard)
Special Mention: Maggie in Wonderland (Dirs.: Mark Hammersberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark, Beatrice Maggie Andersson)
Amnesty Award: Burma VJ (Dir.: Anders Østergaard)
Special Mention: Dynamiters, Assassins, Fiends (Dir.: Joseph Bullman)
Danish Dox Award: 69 (Dir.: Nikolaj Viborg) and Solange on Love (Dir.: Tina Katinka Jensen)
Special Mention: Fra Thy til Thailand (Dir.: Janus Metz) and Side om side (Dir.: Christian Sønderby)
New Vision Award: The Feature (Dir.: Michel Auder)
Special Mention: Morakot (Dir.: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Sound And Vision Award: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
Special Mention: Gogol Bordello Non-Stop (Dir.: Margarita Jimeno)
Doc Alliance Award: Citizen Havel (Dirs.: Pavel Koutecky and Miroslav Janek)
Politikens Audience Award: 69 (Dir.: Nikolaj Viborg)

Denver International Film Festival
People's Choice Award--Best Documentary Feature: They Killed Sister Dorothy (Dir.: Daniel Junge)
Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary: Another Planet (Dir.: Ferenc Moldoványi)

Gijon Film Festival
Best Art Direction: Yoni Goodman (Waltz with Bashir)
Non-Fiction/Documentary Prize: I Want to See (Dirs.: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige; Lebanon-France) and Z 32 (Dir.: Avi Mograbi; Israel-France)
Youth Jury, Feature: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

International Documentary FilmFestival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Joris Ivens Award Competition: Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country (Dir. Anders Ostergaard)
Silver Wolf Award Competition: Boris Ryzhy (Dir.: Aliona van der Horst)
Silver Cub Award Competition: Slaves--An Animated Documentary (Dirs.: Hanna Heilbronn and David Aronowitsch)
First Appearance Award: Constantin and Elena (Dir.: Andrei Dascalescu)
IDFA Student Award: Shakespeare and Victor Hugo's Intimacies (Dir.: Yulene Olaizola)
Dioraphte Audience Award: RiP--A Remix Manifesto (Dir.: Brett Gaylor)
Movies that Matter Human Rights Award: Burma VJ--Reporting from a Closed Country (Dir.: Anders Ostergaard)
DOC U! Award: Kassim The Dream (Dir.: Kief Davidson)
The Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund Award for Documentary 2008:
Monsters under the Bed (Dir.: Sarah Mathilde Domogala)

Northwest & Video Festival Touring Program
Judges Award: Portrait of a Woman 1947-2007 (Dir.: Margot Quan Knight); Smile (Dir.: Julia Kwan); Nickel and Dimin' It with Buddy (Dir.: Tomas Soderberg)

Thessaloniki Film Festival
Cinema and the City Award: Of Time and the City (Dir.: Terence Davies; Prods.: Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter)

Tokyo Filmex Festival
Grand Prize: Waltz with Bashir (Dir.: Ari Folman)

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival
NFB Best Documentary Award: Perfect Day (Dir.: Paul Wong)