The 33rd annual IDA Awards will take place on Saturday, Dec. 9 at Los Angeles’ Paramount Theatre.
And the nominees are:
Pare Lorentz Award
Watani: My Homeland
(Recipient)
Director: Marcel Mettelsiefen
Intent to Destroy
(Special Mention)
Director: Joe Berlinger
ABC News VideoSource Award
Blood On The Mountain
Directors: Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman
Virgil Films/Netflix
Elian
Directors: Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell
Gravitas Ventures, CNN Films
Icarus
Director: Bryan Fogel
Netflix
LA 92
Directors: Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin
National Geographic
Obit.
Director: Vanessa Gould
Kino Lorber
Best Curated Series
American Experience
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
PBS
Dokumania
Executive Producer: Anders Bruus
DR
Independent Lens
Executive Producers: Lois Vossen and Sally Jo Fifer
PBS
POV
Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White
PBS
REEL SOUTH
Executive Producers: Rachel Raney and Amy Shumaker
UNC-TV, South Carolina ETV, NETA and WORLD
Best Limited Series
Daughters of Destiny
Executive Producer: Vanessa Roth
Netflix
The Defiant Ones
Executive Producers: Allen Hughes, Doug Pray, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Gene Kirkwood, and Jerry Longarzo
HBO
The Keepers
Executive Producers: Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave
Netflix
The Vietnam War
Executive Producer: Ken Burns
PBS/WETA
TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
Executive Producers: Jenner Furst, Nick Sandow, Julia Willoughby Nason, Michael Gasparro, Shawn “JAY Z” Carter, Sharon Levy, Chachi Senior
Spike
Best Episodic Series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Executive Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia and Sandra Zweig
CNN
Chef’s Table
Executive Producers: David Gelb, Matthew Weaver, Brian McGinn, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard and Matthew Hilliard
Netflix
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
Executive Producers: Leah Remini, Aaron Saidman, Alex Weresow, Devon-Graham-Hammonds, Elaine Frontain Bryant and Amy Savitsky
A&E
MARS
Executive Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Michael Rosenberg, Dave O’Connor, Jon Kamen, Tommy Turtle, David Sirulnick, Jonathan Silberberg, Lorenzo Mieli, Everardo Gout, Justin Wilkes, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner, Robert Palumbo, and David Sirulneck
National Geographic
Planet Earth II
Executive Producer: Michael Gunton
BBC AMERICA/BBC Worldwide
Best Short Form Series
Field of Vision
Executive Producers: Laura Poitras, AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook
Field of Vision
Shorts on Time
Executive Producer: Julie Parker Benello
Lifetime
The Guardian documentaries
Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton
The Guardian
The New York Times Op-Docs
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
The New York Times
The Secret Life of Muslims
Executive Producers: Joshua Seftel and Reza Aslan
Vox
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
Believers
Director: Ray Whitehouse
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chomo
Director: Maayan Arad
of National Film and Television School (United Kingdom)
How To Make A Pearl
Director: Jason Hanasik
of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Man on Fire
Director: Joel Fendelman
University of Texas, Austin
Room 140
Director: Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz
oof Stanford University
Best Feature
City of Ghosts
Director/Producer: Matthew Heineman
Amazon Studios
Dina
Directors/Producers: Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles
The Orchard
Faces Places
Directors: Agnès Varda and JR
Cohen Media Group
LA 92
Directors: Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin
Producers: Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner and Sarah Gibson
National Geographic
Strong Island
Director/Producer: Yance Ford
Producer Joslyn Barnes
Netflix
Best Short
Edith+Eddie
Director: Laura Checkoway
Producer: Thomas Lee Wright
Kartemquin Films
The Fight
Directors/Producers: Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw
The Guardian
Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405
Director/Producer: Frank Stiefel
Long Shot
Director: Jacob LaMendola
Producers: Jacob LaMendola, Mary Beth Minthorn, Milos S. Silber and Todd Wiseman Jr.
Netflix
Mr. Connolly Has ALS
Director/Producer: Dan Habib
Impact Media Partners
The Rabbit Hunt Director: Patrick Bresnan
Producer: Ivete Lucas
Topic Studios
Creative Recognition Award Winners
Machines
Cinematography by: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva
Kino LorberBest Editing
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Edited by: Bill Morrison
Kino Lorber
Best Music
Brimstone and Glory
Original Score by: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Best Writing
Donkeyote
Written by: Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira and Gabriel Molera
Scottish Documentary Institute