1) Awards

Academy Foundation--Festival Grants

$30,000
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Cinequest Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Santa Barbara International Film Festival

$25,000
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Virginia Film Festival

$20,000
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
San Diego Latino Film Festival
True/False Film Fest

$17,500
Provincetown International Film Festival
$15,000
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
St. Louis International Film Festival

$10,000
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Indie Memphis Film Festival
Phoenix Film Festival
Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

$2,500
Ozark Foothills FilmFest
The Women's Film Festival
Tucson International Jewish Film Festival

Canadian New Media Awards-Nominees (selected)
Best Cross-Platform Project
The Listener Online Experience (A51 Integrated & Smokebomb Entertainment Inc.)
Total Drama Island - Totally Interactive! (Xenophile Media)
Waterlife Interactive (National Film Board of Canada)

Best Online Video Portal
MovieSet Inc. (MovieSet Inc.)
National Film Board of Canada: Online Screening Room (National Film Board of Canada)
Who We Are (KungFu Numerik Inc./Turbulent)

Best Use Of Social Media
Invoke Media, creator of HootSuite (Invoke Media)
KWAD9 (Trinôme Inc.)
Rip! A Remix Manifesto + Open Source Cinema (EyeSteelFilm)

Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards
DVD/Film of the Year: Anvil! The Story of Anvil  (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)

European Film Academy: Documentary Prix Arte--Nominees
Ako Sa Varia Dejiny (Cooking History) (Dir.: Peter Kerekes; Slovakia /Austria /Czech Republic)
Below Sea Level (Dir.: Gianfranco Rosi; Italy / USA)
Burma VJ (Dir.: Anders Østergaard; Denmark)
Les Damnes De La Mer (The Damned of the Sea) (Dir.: Jawad Rhalib; Belgium)
Defamation(Dir.: Yoav Shamir; Denmark /Austria/Israel /USA)
Die Frau Mit Den 5 Elefanten (The Woman with the 5 Elephants) (Dir.: Vadim Jendreyko; Switzerland/Germany)
Das Herz Von Jenin (The Heart of Jenin) (Dirs.: Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter; Germany)
Pianomania (Dirs.: Lilian Franck, Robert Cibis; Germany/Austria)
Les Plages D'agnes (The Beaches of Agnès) (Dir.: Agnès Varda; France)
Das Summen Der Insekten--Bericht Einer Mumie (The Sound of Insects--Records of a Mummy) (Dir.: Peter Liechti; Switzerland)

Latino Public Broadcasting--Open Call Grants
Borderlands (Prods:. Ruben Martinez, Carl Byker)
¿Donde Estan? The Disappeared Children of El Salvador (Prods.: Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Kathryn Smith Pyle)
Farewell, Ferris Wheel (Prods.: Miguel Martinez, Jamie Sisley)
Give Us Your Retired, Your Rich, Your Americans (Prod.: Anayansi Prado)
Granito (Prod.: Paco de Onis)
Immigrant Nation (Prod.: Esaú Meléndez)
Invisible Murals/Murales Invisibles (Prods.: Jonathan Bogarín, Elan Bogarín)
Las Marthas (Prod.: Cristina Ibarra)
¿Mas Bebes? (Prods.: Virginia Espino, Renee Tajima-Pena)
Pablo Neruda: The Poet's Calling (Prod.: Mark Eisner)
The Plot to Kill Emilio Milian: The Death of Free Speech in Miami (Prod.: Joe Cardona)
Raca (Prod.: Megan Mylan)
Rainbow Coalition (Prod.: Ray Santisteban)
Ruben Salazar: The Man in the Middle (Prod.: Phillip Rodriguez)
The Storm that Swept Mexico (Producer: Ray Telles)
Untitled - Journalism and the Drug War in Mexico (Prod.: Natalia Almada)

2009 Sichuan TV Festival International 'Gold Panda' Awards for Documentary

Category: Society
Grand Prize: Kids Kingdom (China Education Television; China)
Best Documentary: The Tunnel Dwellers of New York (INA; France)
Best Short Documentary: Home (Zhongjiang County Bureau of Radio, Film and Television in Sichuan Province; China)
Special Jury Award:I Want to Grow Old in China (Smoke Signal Projects; Belgium); A Decade of Shrimp Street (Hubei TV Economic Channel; China); Iris Chang, the Rape of Nanking (Reel Iris Productions Inc.; Canada)
Asian Production Award: Focus on Somalia (Documentary Channel, Shanghai Media Group; China); Life Extending in the Convulsion (Guangxi Television; China); Bird's Nest--The Start of Olympic Dream (CCTV; China)
Best Society Concern Award: Dance Like Nobody's Watching (G.A.P. Media; Australia)
Most Innovative: Diary of a Times Square Thief (Eyeworks Films & TV Drama; The Netherlands)

Category: Anthropology
Grand Prize: Yanomami: The Last Tribe (NHK; Japan)
Best Long Documentary:  Daming Palace (China Xi'an Qujiang Film & TV Investment (Group) Co., Ltd.)
Best Short Documentary: Old Man Peter (Ethnographic Bureau Studio; Russia)
Special Jury Award: Dunhuang (China Television Media Co. Ltd; China); The Yangtze River (CCTV; China);  Darwin's Lost Paradise (Monaco Film GmbH; Germany)
Asian Production Award:  Taoism and Wudang Mountains (Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio; China); Witness the Nanjing Massacre (Nanjing Television; China);  Knocking on Market's Door (Ulsan MBC; Korea)
Best Anthropology Concern Award:  Superhuman: World's Smallest People (ITV Global Entertainment Ltd; UK)
Most Innovative:  In My Own Room (Dalian Television; China)

Category: Nature and Environment
Grand Prize: Seed Hunter (360 Degree Films Pty Ltd; Australia)
Best Long Documentary: Seed Hunter (360 Degree Films Pty Ltd; Australia)
Best Short Documentary: Mass Extinction (Henry Less Productions Inc.; Canada)
Special Jury Award: In The Womb: Extreme Animals (ITV Global Entertainment Ltd; UK); Chameleon Beach (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation Ert S.A.; Greece); The Body Machine (MB Media Productions Inc; Canada)
Asian Production Award: Forest China: The Survivor in the Taklamakan Desert (CCTV; China); The Call (Chengdu Duoyunxuan Culture & Art Co., Ltd; China); The Story of Tibetan Antelopes (Liaoning Television; China)
Best Nature & Environment Protection Award: Invasion--Nature on the Move (ZDF; Germany)
Most Innovative: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (ITV Global Entertainment Ltd; UK)

Vienna Film Prize
Documentary: Cooking History (Dir.: Péter Kerekes)

2) Festivals

Artivist Film Festival
Animal Advocacy--Best Feature: Ice Bears of the Beaufort (Dir.: Arthur Smith III)
Children's Advocacy--Best Feature: Children of War (Dir.: Bryan Single)
Artivist Spirit--Best Feature: Intelligent Life: Change Your Mind, Change Your World (Dir.: Brian Malone)
Environmental Preservation--Best Feature: Belonging (Dir.: Gerard Ungerman)
Artivist Spirit-Best Short: Rough Cut (Dir.: Taghreed Saadeh)
Environmental Preservation-Best Short: Urubus tem Asas (Vultures Have Wings) (Dir.: Marcos Negrao)

Austin Film Festival
Documentary Feature Competition Audience Award: My Run (Dir.: Tim VandeSteeg); Torey's Distraction (Dir.: Tisha Blood)

Doha Tribeca Film Festival
Best Festival Film: Team Qatar (Dir.: Liz Mermin)

East European Forum
Silver Eye Award--Short Documentary: Six Weeks (Dir.: Marcin Janos Krawcyk;  Poland)
Silver Eye Award-Mid-Length Documentary: Rabbit a la Berlin (Dir.: Bartek Konopka; Poland/ Germany)
Special Mention: The Sidetrack (Dir.: Anna Kazejak; Poland)
Silver Eye Award--Feature Documentary: Disco and Atomic War (Dir.: Jaak Kilmi; Estonia/Finland)
IDFA Forum Award: The Last Black Sea Pirates and Sir Norman Foster (Dir.: Svetoslav Stoyanov)
Golden Funnel Award: The Field of Magic (Dir.: Mindaugas Survila; Prods.: Giedre Beinoriute, Jurga Gluskiniene, Studio Monoklis)

Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier
Ulysses Award-Best Documentary:  Acqua in bocca (Dir.: Pascale Thirode)

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Audience Award--Best Florida Documentary: Circus Rosaire (Dir.: Robyn Bliley)
Audience Award--Best Documentary: Official Rejection (Dir.: Paul Osborne)
Jury Prize-Best Documentary: Mount St. Elias (Dir.: Gerald Salmina)

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Czech Joy Category: I Love my Boring Life (Mám ráda nudný život) (Dir.: Jan Gogola Jr.)
Special Mention: Brain Fight (Souboj s mozkem) (Dir.: Jan Šípek)
Audience Award: Auto*mate (Dir.: Martin Mareček)

Sheffield Doc/Fest
Special Jury Award: Videocracy (Dir.: Erik Gandini)
The Wallflower Press Award for the Best Student Documentary: Arsy-Versy (Dir: Miro Remo)
The Inspiration Award, presented to a figure in the industry who has championed documentary: Adam Curtis (Pandora's Box, It Felt Like A Kiss)
The Sheffield Innovation Award: LoopLoop (Dir: Patrick Bergeron)
The Sheffield Green Award: The Blood of the Rose (Dir.: Henry Singer)
The Sheffield Youth Jury Award: Sons of Cuba (Dir.: Andrew Lang) 
Channel 4 Pitch Winner: Lucy Bennett for One Under

South Asian International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Project Kashmir (Dirs.: Shenain Kheshgi, Geeta Patel)