The International Documentary Association is proud to annouce the following information about the IDA Documentary Awards 2009.
The event will take place on Friday, December 4, 2009 at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Purchase your tickets now!
On that evening, the IDA will award its prestigious 2009 Career Achievement
Award to legendary and innovative filmmaker Errol Morris. Given to a filmmaker
who has made a major impact on the documentary genre through a long and
distinguished body of work, the IDA Career Achievement Award has previously
been awarded to Sheila Nevins, Michael Apted, Ken Burns, Albert Maysles,
Haskell Wexler, Michael Moore, and last year’s recipient, Werner Herzog. Part
detective, part philosopher, part poet, part iconoclast, Errol Morris is one of
the most important and influential non-fiction filmmakers of his generation.
His movies have achieved great critical success, and he has received a
Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. His
artistic journey has resulted in such landmark works as The Thin Blue Line, Standard
Operating Procedure and Academy Award Winner The Fog of War.
Host, More Honorees, and Nominees will be announced soon.