The International Documentary Association weighed in on this year’s crop of outstanding documentary films, naming the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour as the Best Feature documentary of 2014. The IDA is “dedicated to building and serving the needs of a thriving documentary culture” and in addition to its annual awards, the group provides resources for documentary filmmakers and activists throughout the year.
International Documentary Association 2014 Award Winners:
Best Feature Award
Citizenfour (WINNER)
Director: Laura Poitras
RADiUS-TWC, Participant Media, and
HBO Documentary Films
Finding Vivian Maier
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Sundance Selects
Point and Shoot
Director: Marshall Curry
The Orchard
The Salt of the Earth
Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Sony Pictures Classics
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Director: Nick Broomfield
HBO and SKY ATLANTIC
Best Short Award
Tashi and the Monk (WINNER)
Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke
HBO Documentary Films
Ghost Train
Directors: Kelly Hucker & James Fleming
Premium Films (France)
Our Curse
Director: Tomasz Śliwiński
Warsaw Film School
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Director: Edgar Barens
HBO Documentary Films
The Queen
Director: Manuel Abramovich
Best Curated Series Award
Independent Lens (WINNER)
Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
Deputy Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with PBS
American Experience
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Senior Producer: Sharon Grimberg
PBS
American Masters
Executive Producer: Susan Lacy
PBS
POV
Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry
Series Producer: Chris White
POV / PBS
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Executive Producer: Rick Bernstein
HBO Sports
Best Limited Series Award
Time of Death (WINNER)
Executive Producers: Cynthia Childs, Dan Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Alexandra Lipsitz
Co-Executive Producer: Miggi Hood, Sandy Shapiro
Showtime
Chicagoland
Executive Producers: Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin, Laura Michalchyshyn, Robert Redford
CNN/ BCTV and Sundance Productions
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Executive Producers: Brannon Braga, Mitchell Cannold, Ann Druyan, Seth MacFarlane
FOX / National Geographic Channel
The Sixties
Executive Producers: Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Mark Herzog
CNN / Playtone and Herzog & Co
Years of Living Dangerously
Executive Producers: Daniel Abbasi, Joel Bach, James Cameron, David Gelber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Weintraub
Showtime
Best Episodic Series Award
Our America with Lisa Ling (WINNER)
Executive Producers: Amy Bucher, Gregory Henry, Lisa Ling, David Shadrack Smith
OWN
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
Executive Producer and Host: Anthony Bourdain
Executive Producers: Chris Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig
CNN
Morgan Spurlock Inside Man
Executive Producer and Host: Morgan Spurlock
Executive Producers Jeremy Chilnick, Mathew Galkin
Warrior Poets/CNN
Oprah’s Master Class
Executive Producers: Jon Kamen, Jonathan Sinclair, Justin Wilkes, Oprah Winfrey
OWN/ Harpo Studios
VICE
Executive Producers: BJ Levin, Bill Maher, Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith
HBO
Best Short Form Series Award
Planet Money Makes a T-shirt (WINNER)
Executive Producer: Alex Blumberg
NPR
A Short History of the Highrise
Executive Producers: Jason Spingarn-Koff, Silva Basmajian
National Film Board of Canada and The New York Times
Last Chance High
Executive Producer: Jason Mojica
VICE News
Op-Docs
Executive Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff
The New York Times
Russian Roulette
Executive Producers: Jason Mojica, Kevin Sutcliffe
VICE News
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
This award recognizes exceptional achievement in non-fiction film and video production at the university level and brings greater public and industry awareness to the work of students in the documentary field.
My Dad’s a Rocker (WINNER)
Director: Zuxin Hou
University of Southern California
Cast in India
Director: Natasha Raheja
New York University
Evaporating Borders
Director: Iva Radivojevic
CUNY – Hunter College
Hotel 22
Director: Elizabeth Lo
Stanford University
Solitary Plains
Director: J. Christian Jensen
Stanford University
Humanitas Award
This award is given to a film that explores the hopes and fears of human beings who are very different in culture, race, lifestyle, political loyalties and religious beliefs in order to break down the walls of ignorance which separate us.
Limited Partnership (WINNER)
Director: Thomas G. Miller
PBS / Independent Lens
How I Got Over
Director: Nicole Boxer
Keep On Keepin’ On
Director: Alan Hicks
Radius
Pare Lorentz Award
The Pare Lorentz Award recognizes films that demonstrate exemplary filmmaking while focusing on the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems.
Tashi and the Monk (WINNER)
Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke
HBO Documentary Films
ABCNews VideoSource Award
This award is given each year for the best use of news footage as an integral component in a documentary.
1971 (WINNER)
Director: Johanna Hamilton
Independent Lens/ PBS
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Executive Producers: Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Mark Herzog
CNN / Playtone and Herzog & Co
Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
HBO Documentary Films
Concerning Violence
Director: Göran Hugo Olsson
Kino Lorber
The Joe Show
Director: Randy Murray
Investigation Discovery / Film Buff
Creative Recognition Award Winners
The Creative Recognition category recognizes special achievement in cinematography, editing, music and writing in films entered in the Feature Category.
Best Cinematography presented by Canon
Elevator
Cinematography By: Hatuey Viveros Lavielle
Best Editing
Last Days in Vietnam
Editing By: Don Kleszy
Best Music
Alfred and Jakobine
Music By: Nick Urata
Best Writing
Finding Vivian Maier
Written By: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
-By Rebecca Murray
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