Saturday, December 8, 2012
2012 IDA Documentary Awards – winners
The International Documentary Association held their 28th annual IDA Documentary Awards last night at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, with comedian/illusionist Penn Jillette hosting the ceremony.
Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man came away with the top prize, the Best Feature Award. It also picked up an award for Best Music, by Sixto Rodriguez and Bendjelloul himself. He had been up against The Central Park Five by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon; The Invisible War by Kirby Dick; The Queen of Versailles by Lauren Greenfield; and Women With Cows by Peter Gerdehag. Women With Cows managed a win for Best Cinematography.
The Academy Award-winning short film Saving Face by Daniel Junge and Pakistani-Canadian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was winner of the Best Short Award.
The IDA presented its 2012 Career Achievement Award to Oscar and Emmy Award-winning producer, director, writer Arnold Shapiro. The Pioneer Award was presented to Sundance Institute's groundbreaking Documentary Film Program and Fund (DFP). David France was awarded the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award.
Nominations for the 28th annual IDA Documentary Awards
Complete list of winners for the 28th annual IDA Documentary Awards
BEST FEATURE AWARD
Searching for Sugar Man
Director/Producer/Writer: Malik Bendjelloul
Producer: Simon Chinn
Executive Producer: John Battsek
Red Box Films, Sony Pictures Classics
BEST SHORT AWARD
Saving Face
Director: Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Producers: David Coombe, Daniel Junge, Alison Greenberg, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Sabiha Sumar
Co-Producers: Aaron Kopp, Fazeelat Aslam
Senior Producer: Lisa Heller (HBO)
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films, Milkhaus, LLC, and JungeFilm, LLC
BEST CONTINUING SERIES AWARD
American Masters
Executive Producer: Susan Lacy
Series Producer: Prudence Glass
Supervising Producer: Julie Sacks
Coordinating Producer: Junko Tsunashima
THIRTEEN in association with PBS
BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD
On Death Row
Director/Writer: Werner Herzog
Producer: Erik Nelson
Coordinating Producer: Robert Erickson
Executive Producers: Dave Harding, Amy Briamonte; Andre Singer and Lucki Stipetic (Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film); Nick Raslan (Skellig Rock); Henry Schleiff and Sara Kozak (Investigation Discovery)
Creative Differences, Investigation Discovery
DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
La Camioneta
Director/Producer/Writer: Mark Kendall
Producer: Rafael González
Writer: Shannon Kennedy
Executive Producer: Esther Robinson
School of Visual Arts
ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD
Harvest of Empire
Directors: Peter Getzels, Eduardo López
Producers: Wendy Thompson-Marquez, Eduardo López
Onyx Films, EVS Communications, Loquito Productions
HUMANITAS DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Bitter Seeds
Director/Producer: Micha X. Peled
Teddy Bear Films
PARE LORENTZ AWARD
The Island President
Director: Jon Shenk
Executive Producer: John Else
Producers: Bonni Cohen, Richard Berge
Creative Recognition Awards
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Women with Cows
Director/Cinematographer: Peter Gerdehag
BEST EDITING
Room 237
Director/Editor: Rodney Ascher
BEST MUSIC
Searching for Sugar Man
Original Songs by: Sixto Rodriguez
Additional Score by: Malik Bendjelloul
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul
BEST WRITING
Ann Richards' Texas
Writing: Keith Patterson
Directors: Keith Patterson, Jack Lofton
Special Awards
2012 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Arnold Shapiro
PIONEER AWARD
Documentary Film Program and Fund
JACQUELINE DONNET EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER AWARD
David France
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