The International Documentary Association has announced the winners of the 36th annual IDA Documentary Award, with “Crip Camp” taking the main prize home.
The ceremony was presented by actor Willie Garson, with musical animation by Ruby Ibarra, who interpreted the theme of “A Thousand Cuts”.
Directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, “Crip Camp” received the award for best feature film, as well as the ABC News VideoSource award. Garrett Bradley won the award for best director for his film “Time”, while “John was trying to contact aliens” by Matthew Killip received the award for best short film. “Dick Johnson Is Dead” took home the awards for best writing and best editing.
In addition to “Crip Camp”, nominees for best film include “Collective”, “Gunda”, “The Reason I Jump”, “Softie”, “The Truffle Hunters”, “MLK / FBI”, “Reunited”, “Time “and” Welcome to Chechnya “. Best director nominees, in addition to Bradley, included Newnham and LeBrecht for “Crip Camp”, Jerry Rothwell for “The Reason I Jump”, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw for “The Truffle Hunters” and Sam Pollard for “MLK / FBI” .
As part of this year’s ceremony, digital conversations with the winners were launched the week before the awards. Pollard received the Career Achievement Award, Bradley was honored with the Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award and David France received the Courage Under Fire Award for his work on “Welcome to Chechnya. Marcia Smith, Stanley Nelson and Blondie Limbal of Firelight Media received the Pioneer Award; Regina K. Scully received the Amicus award and Maria Ressa from Rappler was honored with the Truth to Power award. All digital conversations can be seen here.
See the full list of winners below.
Best feature
Crip Camp (USA / Netflix. Directors and producers: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder)
Best director
Garrett Bradley (Time. USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times)
Best Short
John was trying to contact foreigners (USA / Netflix. Director and producer: Matthew Killip)
Best curated series
American Experience (USA / PBS. Executive producers: Susan Bellows and Mark Samels)
Best episodic series
Last chance U (USA / Netflix. Director and executive producer: Greg Whiteley. Executive producers: Joe LaBracio, James D. Stern, Lucas Smith, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard)
Best multi-part documentary
Missing and murdered Atlanta: The Lost Children (USA / HBO. Directors and executive producers: Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Joshua Bennett, Jeff Dupre. Executive producers: John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorious, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller)
Best Short Form Series
POV Shorts (USA / PBS. Producer: Opal H. Bennett. Executive producers: Justine Nagan, Chris White)
Best Audio Documentary
Someone (USA / Topic Studios, The Intercept, the Invisible Institute and iHeartRadio, in association with Tenderfoot TV. Reporters and producers: Alison Flowers, Bill Healy and Sarah Geis. Presenter: Shapearl Wells. Reporters: Sam Stecklow, Annie Nguyen, Kahari Blackburn , Rajiv Sinclair, Henri Adams, Matilda Vojak, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Frances McDonald, Diana Akmajian, Andrew Fan and Maddie Anderson. Associate producer: Ellen Glover. Executive producers: Jamie Kalven, Maria Zuckerman, Christy Gressman, Leital Molad)
Best Musical Documentary
Universe (USA. Directors: Sam Osborn and Nicholas Capezzera. Producers: Esther Dere and Leah Natasha Thomas)
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
People like me (USA / University of California at Santa Cruz. Director / Producer: Marrok Sedgwick, Co-Editor: Jackson Patrick-Sternin)
Best Cinematography
The earth is blue like an orange (Ukraine, Lithuania. Director of photography: Viacheslav Tsvietkov)
Best Editing
Dick Johnson Is Dead (USA / Netflix. Editor: Nels Bangerter)
Best soundtrack
My octopus teacher (USA / Netflix. Composer: Kevin Smuts)
Best Writing
Dick Johnson is dead (USA / Netflix. Writers: Nels Bangerter and Kirsten Johnson)
Pare Lorentz Award
My octopus teacher (USA / Netflix. Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed. Producer: Craig Foster)
Honorable mention: Crip Camp (USA / Netflix. Directors / producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder)
ABC News VideoSource Award
Crip Camp (USA / Netflix. Directors / producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder)