The International Documentary Association has awarded the winners of the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards, with ‘Crip Camp’ taking home the highest prize.
The ceremony was hosted by actor Willie Garson, with musical entertainment by Ruby Ibarra, who performed the theme from ‘A Thousand Cuts’.
Directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, ‘Crip Camp’ received the Best Award as well as the ABC News VideoSource Award. Garrett Bradley won Best Director for his film “Time”, while “John Was Trying to Contact Aliens” by Matthew Killip received the best short award. “Dick Johnson Is Dead” won the awards for best writing and best editing.
In addition to ‘Crip Camp’, the nominees for Best Feature were ‘Collective’, ‘Gunda’, ‘The Reason I Jump’, ‘Softie’, ‘The Truffle Hunters’,’ MLK / FBI ‘,’ Reunited ‘,’ Time and “Welcome to Chechnya.” In addition to Bradley, nominees for Best Director include 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 talks with recipients of honorary awards were launched the week before the award. Pollard received the Career Achievement Award, Bradley was honored with the Awarding Documentary Filmmaker Award and David France received the Courage Under Fire Award for his work on “Welcome to Chechnya”. Marcia Smith, Stanley Nelson and Loira Limbal of Firelight Media won the Pioneer Award; Regina K. Scully received the Amicus Award and Rappler’s Maria Ressa was honored with the Truth to Power Award. All the digital conversations can be viewed here.
See the full winner list below.
Best feature
Crip Kamp (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 card
John tried to contact strangers (USA / Netflix. Director and producer: Matthew Killip)
Best series compiled
American experience (USA / PBS. Executive Producers: Susan Bellows and Mark Samels)
Best Episode Series
Last Chance You (USA / Netflix. Director and executive producer: Greg Whiteley. Executive producers: Joe LaBracio, James D. Stern, Lucas Smith, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard)
Best Multiplayer Documentary
Atlanta’s missing and killed: 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
Somebody (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. Host: 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. Co-Producer: Ellen Glover. Executive Producers: Jamie Kalven, Maria Zuckerman, Christy Gressman, Leital Molad)
Best Music 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 Santa Cruz. Director / Producer: Marrok Sedgwick, Co-Editor: Jackson Patrick-Sternin)
Best Cinematography
The earth is blue like an orange (Ukraine, Lithuania. Cinematographer: Viacheslav Tsvietkov)
Best Editing
Dick Johnson is dead (USA / Netflix. Editor: Nels Bangerter)
Best music score
My Octopus Teacher (USA / Netflix. Composer: Kevin Smuts)
Best writing
Dick Johnson is dead (USA / Netflix. Authors: Nels Bangerter and Kirsten Johnson)
Pare Lorentz Award
My Octopus Teacher (USA / Netflix. Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed. Producer: Craig Foster)
Honorable mention: Crip Kamp (USA / Netflix. Directors / Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder)
ABC News VideoSource Award
Crip Kamp (USA / Netflix. Directors / Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder)