1) Awards

Adrienne Shelly Foundation Grant Recipients (Documentaries):
Freeheld (Dir.: Cynthia Wade)
The Devil Came on Horseback (Dirs.: Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern)

British Independent Film Award--Nominations:
Best Documentary:
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (Dir.: Chris Waitt; Prods.: Mark Herbert, Robin Gutch, Mary Burke, Henry Trotter)
Derek (Dir./Prod.: Isaac Julien; Prods.: Eliza Mellor, Colin McCabe)
Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh; Prod.: Simon Chinn)
Of Time and the City (Dir.: Terence Davies; Prods.: Solon Papadopoulos, Roy Boulter)
Three Miles North of Molkom (Dirs.: Robert Cannan, Corinna McFarlane)

Leo Dratfield Awards
Barbara Hammer

Sue Oscar and Linda Gottesman/Filmakers Library.

2) Festivals

AFI Fest
International Documentary Competition--Grand Jury Prize: Kassim The Dream
(Dir./Prod.: Kief Davidson; Prod.: Liz Silver)
Special Mention: The Last Days of Shishmaref (Dir: Jan Louter; Prod: Juul Kappelhof)
International Shorts Competition--Special Mention: The Apology Line (Dir./Prod.: James Lees )
Audience Award-Best Documentary Feature: Kassim The Dream (Dir./Prod.: Kief Davidson; Prod.: Liz Silver); The World We Want (Dir./Prod.: Patrick Davidson)
Audience Award-Best Short: Busco Personas: The Faces of Columbia's War
(Dirs./Prods.: Lagan Sebert, Sandra Sampayo)

Arab Film Festival
Noor Award for Best Feature Documentary: Life after the Fall (Dir.: Kasim Abid)
Noor Award for Best Short Documentary: Out of the Frame (Dir.: Nizar Annadawi )

Austin Film Festival
Audience Award-Best Documentary: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (Dir.: Eric Bricker)
Audience Award-Best Documentary Short: Road to Tlacotepec (Dir.: Berndt Mader)

Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF)
Best Documentary Film: Durakovo, Village of Fools (Dir.: Nino Kirtadze)

Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Children's Jury Prize--Documentary Film or Video:
1st Prize: Mr. Williams Returns to the South Bronx (Dir.: Matthew Williams)
2nd Prize Please Vote For Me (Dir.: Weijun Chen)
Adult Jury Prize--Documentary Film or Video:
1st Prize: Please Vote For Me (Dir.: Weijun Chen)
2nd Prize: Kick Like A Girl (Dir.: Jenny Mackenzie)
Adult Jury Prize--Animated Documentary Film or Video:
1st Prize: Training Center: Cultural Awareness Day
(Dirs.: Ken-Yu Chou, Michelle Hwang, Yun-Ling Lee, Si Yang Ng, Priscilla Tsang)

Chicago International Film Festival
Docufest Competition
The Gold Hugo for Best Documentary: Valentino: The Last Emperor (Dir.: Matt Tyrnauer)
The Silver Hugo for Best Documentary: Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Dir.: Sacha Gervasi)
The Silver Plaque for best Documentary: They Killed Sister Dorothy (Dir.: Daniel Junge)

Cinemed
Ulysses Award: To See if I'm Smiling (Dir.: Tamar Yarom)
Special Mention : The Flower Bridge (Dir.: Thomas Ciulei)

Hollywood Film Festival
Best Documentary: The Forgotten Woman (Dir.: Dilip Mehta)

International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Films (DOK Leipzig)
Golden Dove (longer than 45 min.): René (Dir.: Helena Třeštiková)
Golden Dove (up to 45 min.): Do bólu (Dir.: Marcin Koszałka)
Silver Dove: El Olvido (Dir.: Heddy Honigmann; Prod.: Carmen Cobos)
Prize of the Ecomenical Jury: El Olvido (Dir.: Heddy Honigmann; Prod.: Carmen Cobos)
FIPRESCI Prize: El Olvido (Dir.: Heddy Honigmann; Prod.: Carmen Cobos)
German Jury for Documentary Film--Golden Dove: Hochburg der Sünden (Dir.: Thomas Lauterbach)
International Jury for the Young Talent Competition Award-- Talent Dove of the Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig: Goleshovo (Dirs.: AIlian Metev and Metodi Metev)
The MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) Awards for an Excellent Eastern European Documentary Film--MDR Film Prize: René (Dir.: Helena Třeštiková)
The DEFA Foundation Award--DEFA Sponsoring Prize: Das Herz von Jenin (Dirs.: Marcus Vetter and Leon Geller)
The Jury of the Trade Union verdi - Department of Media and Arts -Award: Femida (Dir.: Viktar Dashuk)
The Youth Jury of the Filmschule Leipzig e. V.--Prize of the Youth Jury of the Filmschule Leipzig e. V.: Pizza Be Auschwitz (Dir.: Moshe Zimerman)

MEDIMED 2008, the Euro-Mediterranean Documentary Market
II Ahmed Attia's Award for the Dialogue of Cultures: Eyes on the Sky (Dir.: Jesús Garay)

New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
Best Documentary: Under the Skin (Dir.: Billy Burke)
Best Directors of a Documentary: Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano (Neshoba)
Best International Directors of a Documentary: Matt Trecartin and Natasha Ryan
(Chasing Wild Horses)
Documentary Awards (USA)
Best Music Documentary: Halford Live at Rock in Rio III (Dir.: John Baxter)
Best Historical Documentary: Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle (Dir./Prod.: Tika Laudun)
Best Performing Arts Documentary: The Wonder Kids (Dirs./Prods.: Jim Petersen and Pamela J. Richardson)
Best Political Documentary: Neshoba (Dirs.: Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano)
Best Social Documentary: Newark Street Preachers (Dir.: Donna Roman Hernandez)
Best Health Documentary: Pink, Blue, Yellow, Green One Man's Fight To Bring Stevia to America's Table (Dirs.: David Diaz with Annie Perkins and Christian Holler)
Best Spiritual Documentary: Beyond Our Differences (Dir.: Peter Bisanz)
Best Alternative Lifestyle Documentary: Unraveling Michelle (Dir.: Dan Shaffer)
Best Mystical Documentary: Self-Made Shaman (Dir.: Tihamer Toth)
Documentary Awards (International)
Best International Music Documentary: Same Old Story (Dir.: Kunio Yato)
Best International Historical Documentary: The Battle of the Boyne (Dir.: Lee Cronin)
Best International Arts Documentary: Listen to Me (Dirs.: Kong Iingchen and Tan Chen)
Best International Political Documentary: Sweet Death (Dir.: Joseph Goldman)
Best International Social Documentary: Ragpickers, Scavengers of a Different Graveyard (Dir.: Tina Schmidt)
Best Music Biography Documentary: Ace Slash (Dir.: Frosina Naumovska)

Online Film Festival
Best Film: Parallels (Dir.: Paul St. Amand)

Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival
Best Canadian Film (Long Form): Michael Schmidt: Organic Hero or Bioterrorist
(Dir.: Norman Lofts)

Savannah Film Festival
Best Documentary: Who Does She Think She Is? (Dir./Prod.: Pamela Boll; Prod.:
Kerthy Fix)
Standing Ovation Award: The Wrecking Crew (Dir./Prod.: Denny Tedesco)
HBO Films Producer Award 2008: Cass Warner (The Brothers Warner)

South Asian Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Doormat (Dirs.: Christy Garland and Susan Armstrong)
Audience Choice Award: Flying on One Engine (Dir.: Joshua Weinstein)

Times BFI London Film Festival
Grierson Award: Victoire Terminus (Dirs.: Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye)

Zagreb Film Festival
Golden Pram for the Best Documentary Film: The Red Race (Dir.: Chao Gan)