36th Annual IDA Documentary Awards

Collective
Director/Producer: Alexander Nanau
Producer: Bianca Oana
Romania / Magnolia Pictures, Participant

Crip Camp
Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht
Producer: Sara Bolder
USA / Netflix

Gunda
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Producer: Anita Rehoff Larsen
Norway, USA / NEON

MLK/FBI
Director: Sam Pollard
Producer: Benjamin Hedin
USA / IFC Films

The Reason I Jump
Director: Jerry Rothwell
Producers: Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow
USA, UK / Kino Lorber

Reunited
Director: Mira Jargil
Producer: Kirstine Barfod
Denmark

Softie
Director/Producer: Sam Soko
Producer: Toni Kamau
Kenya / POV

Time
Director/Producer: Garrett Bradley
Producers: Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn
USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times

The Truffle Hunters
Directors/Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
USA, Italy, Greece / Sony Pictures Classics

Welcome to Chechnya
Director/Producer: David France
Producers: Alice Henty, Joy A. Tomchin, and Askold Kurov
USA / HBO

Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa
Directors/Producers: Barbara Attie, Mike Attie, Janet Goldwater
USA / TOPIC, Woman Make Movies

All That Perishes at the Edge of Land
Director/Producer: Hira Nabi
Producer: Till Passow
Pakistan

Huntsville Station
Directors/Producers: Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone
USA / New York Times Op-Docs

Hysterical Girl
Director: Kate Novack
Producer: Andrew Rossi
USA / New York Times Op-Docs

John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
Director/Producer: Matthew Killip
USA / Netflix

The Lost Astronaut
Director: Ben Proudfoot
Producers: Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabriel Berk Godoi
USA / New York Times Op-Docs

Mizuko
Directors/Producers: Kira Dane, Katelyn Rebelo
USA, Japan / TOPIC

sống ở đây
Director/Producer: Melanie Ho
USA / University of California, Santa Cruz

To Calm the Pig Inside (Ang Pagpakalma sa Unos)
Director/Producer: Joanna Vasquez Arong
Philippines

Unforgivable
Director/Producer: Marlén Viñayo
Producer: Carlos Martínez
El Salvador

Garrett Bradley
Time
USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
The Truffle Hunters
USA, Italy, Greece / Sony Pictures Classics

Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht
Crip Camp
USA / Netflix

Sam Pollard
MLK/FBI
USA / IFC Films

Jerry Rothwell
The Reason I Jump
USA, UK / Kino Lorber

30 for 30
Executive Producers: John Dahl, Libby Geist, Rob King, Erin Leyden, Connor Schell
USA / ESPN

American Experience
Executive Producers: Susan Bellows and Mark Samels
USA / PBS

American Masters
Executive Producer: Michael Kantor
USA / THIRTEEN Productions, LLC

Reel Midwest
Executive Producer: Moss Bresnahan
USA / Illinois Public Media

Reel South
Executive Producers: Don Godish and Rachel Raney
USA / PBS, World Channel

Cheer
Director and Executive Producer: Greg Whiteley
Producers: Adam Leibowitz, Arielle Kilker, Chelsea Yarnell
Executive Producers: Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Jasper Thomlinson, Bert Hamelinck
USA / Netflix

Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
Executive Producers: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Shawn Gee, Alex Gibney, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Shea Serrano, Angie Day, One9, Erik Parker, Isaac Bolden
USA / AMC

Last Chance U
Director and Executive Producer: Greg Whiteley
Executive Producers: Joe LaBracio, James D. Stern, Lucas Smith, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard
USA / Netflix

Seven Worlds, One Planet
Directors: Fredi Devas, Emma Napper, Giles Badger, Chadden Hunter
Executive Producer: Jonny Keeling
United Kingdom / BBC America

We’re Here
Executive Producers: Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Stephen Warren, Johnnie Ingram, Peter LoGreco
USA / HBO

Asian Americans
Directors: Leo Chiang, Geeta Gandbhir, Grace Lee
Producers: Renee Tajima-Peña, Mark Jonathan Harris
Executive Producers: Jeff Bieber, Sally Jo Fifer, Stephen Gong, Jean Tsien, Donald Young
USA / PBS

Hillary
Director: Nanette Burstein
Producers: Isabel San Vargas, Timothy Moran, Chi-Young Park, Tal Ben-David
Executive Producers: Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Nanette Burstein, Sierra Kos, Laurie Girion
USA / Hulu

City So Real
Director and Producer: Steve James
Producer: Zak Piper
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Alex Kotlowitz, Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Jolene Pinder
USA / National Geographic

Lenox Hill
Directors and Executive Producers: Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz
Executive Producer: Josh Braun
USA / Netflix

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered
Directors and Executive Producers: Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeffn, Joshua Bennett, Jeff Dupre
Executive Producers: John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorious, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller
USA / HBO

Almost Famous
Director: Ben Proudfoot
Producers: Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabriel Berk Godoi and Jeremy Lambert
Executive Producer: Adam Ellick
USA / New York Times Op-Docs

Guardian Documentaries
Directors: Irene Baque, Laurence Topham, Sara Khaki, Mohammad Reza Eyni, Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Laura Dodsworth, Dan McDougall
Producers: Shanida Scotland, Natasha Dack Ojumu and Nikki Parrott
Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips, Lindsay Poulton, Jess Gormley
United Kingdom, Iran / The Guardian

Last Call For The Bayou: 5 Stories from Louisiana's Disappearing Delta
Director: Dominic Gill
Producer: Nadia Gill
Executive Producer: Gina Hutchinson
USA / Smithsonian Channel Plus

POV Shorts
Producer: Opal H. Bennett
Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White
USA / PBS

Run This City
Director: Brent Hodge
Producer: Prince Vaughn
Executive Producers: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Gips, Brent Hodge
USA / Quibi

Crosses in the Desert / Cruces en el desierto
Reporter: Dennis Maxwell
Producers: Catalina May, Martín Cruz
Executive Producer: Martina Castro
Chile, USA / Las Raras Podcast

Fiasco: Bush v. Gore
Producers: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons
USA / Luminary

Girl Taken
Reporter: Sue Mitchell
Producer: Richard Hannaford
Executive Producer: Philip Sellars
United Kingdom / British Broadcasting Corporation

Heavyweight - The Marshes
Reporter, Producer and Executive Producer: Jonathan Goldstein
Reporter and Producer: Kalila Holt
Producers: Stevie Lane, Jorge Just, BA Parker, Bobby Lord
USA / Gimlet Media

Somebody
Reporters and Producers: Alison Flowers, Bill Healy
Reporters: Sam Stecklow, Ellen Glover, Annie Nguyen, Kahari Blackburn, Rajiv Sinclair, Henri Adams, Matilda Vojak, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Frances McDonald, Diana Akmajian, Andrew Fan and Maddie Anderson
Producers: Shapearl Wells, Sarah Geis
Executive Producers: Jamie Kalven, Maria Zuckerman, Christy Gressman, Leital Molad
USA / iHeartRadio

Beastie Boys Story
Director/Producer: Spike Jonze
Producers: Jason Baum and Amanda Adelson
USA / Apple TV+

Billie
Director: James Erskine
United Kingdom / Greenwich Entertainment

Crock of Gold
Director/Producer: Julien Temple
Producers: Johnny Depp, Stephen Deuters, Stephen Malit
USA / Magnolia Pictures

Los Hermanos/The Brothers
Directors/Producers: Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider
USA / PatchWorks Films, PBS

Universe
Directors: Sam Osborn and Nicholas Capezzera
Producers: Esther Dere and Leah Natasha Thomas
USA

Bananas
Director/Producer: Sara Montoya Sepúlveda
United Kingdom / National Film and Television School

Isle of Us
Director: Laura Wadha
United Kingdom / National Film and Television School

Na Luta Delas
Directors/Producers: Orion Rose Kelly and Pedro Cota
Brazil / UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

People Like Me
Director/Producer: Marrok Sedgwick
USA / University of California Santa Cruz

Susana
Director: Laura Gamse
Producer: James Davis
USA / Stanford University

Trees
Director: Rosie Morris
Producer: Jesse Romain
United Kingdom / National Film and Television School

Acasă, My Home
Cinematographers: Radu Ciorniciuc and Mircea Topoleanu
Romania, Germany, Finland / Manifest Film, HBO Europe

Boys State
Director of Photography: Thorsten Thielow
USA / Apple, A24

The Earth is Blue as an Orange
Cinematographer: Viacheslav Tsvietkov
Ukraine, Lithuania

The Truffle Hunters
Cinematographers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
USA, Italy, Greece / Sony Pictures Classics

Time
Cinematographers: Zac Manuel, Justin Zweifach, Nisa East
USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times

Boys State
Editor: Jeff Gilbert
USA / Apple, A24

Crip Camp
Editors: Eileen Meyer and Andrew Gersh
USA / Netflix

Disclosure
Editor: Stacy Goldate
USA / Netflix

Dick Johnson is Dead
Editor: Nels Bangerter
USA / Netflix

Through the Night
Editor: Malika Zouhali-Worrall
USA / ITVS, POV

Dancing with the Birds
Composer: David Mitcham
USA / Netflix

David Attenborough: Life On Our Planet
Composer: Steven Price
USA, United Kingdom / Netflix

Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice
Composer: Chapavich Temnitikul
USA / Netflix

My Octopus Teacher
Composer: Kevin Smuts
USA, United Kingdom / Netflix

Rising Phoenix
Composer: Daniel Pemberton
USA / Netflix

Crip Camp
Writers: Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham
USA / Netflix

Dick Johnson is Dead
Writers: Nels Bangerter and Kirsten Johnson
USA / Netflix

I Am Not Alone
Writer: Garin Hovannisian
USA / Netflix

My Octopus Teacher
Writers: Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed
USA / Netflix

Socks on Fire
Writers: Max Allman, Bo McGuire
USA

#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Director/Producer: Dan Partland
Producer: Art Horan
USA / Dark Star

Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn
Director: Ivy Meerapol
Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn
USA / HBO

Crip Camp
Directors/Producers: Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham
Producer: Sara Bolder
USA / Netflix

Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections
Director: Sarah Teale
Directors/Producers: Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels
Producers: Michael Hirschorn and Jessica Antonini
USA / HBO

MLK/FBI
Director: Sam Pollard
Producer: Benjamin Hedin
USA / IFC Films

The First Rainbow Coalition
Director/Producer: Ray Santisteban
USA / Independent Lens, PBS, Latino Public Broadcasting, ITVS

My Octopus Teacher (winner)
Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Producer: Craig Foster
USA / Netflix

Crip Camp (honorable mention)
Directors/Producers: Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham
Producer: Sara Bolder
USA / Netflix