Honorees Lyn Lear and Norman Lear

Best Feature Award winners Ezra edelman and Caroline Waterlow

Best Short winners Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara with Presenter Willie Garson (center)

Honoree Stanley Nelson, presenter & nominee Ava DuVernay, nominee Raoul Peck, and nominee Rita Coburn Whack

Pioneer award recipient Ally Derks and Diane Weyermann

Presenters Moby and Bijou Phillips

Best Limited Series award winners Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award Honoree Nanfu Wang and presenter Tabitha Jackson

Best Episodic Series award winners Joe Lobracio and Greg Whiteley

Host Vivica A. Fox

32nd Annual IDA Documentary Awards
Honorees

Stanley Nelson

Career Achievement Award

Ally Derks

Pioneer Award

Lyn and Norman Lear

Amicus Award

Nanfu Wang

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award

Nominees and Winners

Best Feature Award

13th Director and Producer: Ava DuVernay Producers: Spencer Averick and Howard Barish Netflix		Cameraperson Director: Kirsten Johnson Producers: Kirsten Johnson and Marilyn Ness Janus Films
Fire at Sea Director: Gianfranco Rosi Producers: Paolo Del Brocco, Roberto Ciccutto, Camille Laemle, Serge Lalou, Donatella Palermo, Olivier Pere, Gianfranco Rosi and Martine Saada Kino Lorber		I Am Not Your Negro Director: Raoul Peck Producers: Remi Grellety, Raoul Peck and Hébert Peck Magnolia Pictures, Independent Lens
O.J.: Made in America (Winner) Director: Ezra Edelman Producers: Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Nina Krstic, Erin Leyden, Tamara Rosenberg, Connor Schell and Caroline Waterlow ESPN		Weiner Directors and Producers: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg Sundance Selects, Showtime Documentary Film

Best Short Award

The Above Director and Producer: Kirsten Johnson Producer: Marilyn Ness Field of Vision		Clinica De Migrantes: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin Producer: Jenny Lim HBO
Extremis Director and Producer: Dan Krauss f/8 Filmworks Ltd, Netflix		Pickle Director and Producer: Amy Nicholson Myrtle & Olive, Oscilloscope
Red Lake Director: Billy Luther Producers: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato World of Wonder Productions		The White Helmets (Winner) Director: Orlando von Einsiedel Producer: Joanna Natasegara Netflix

Best Curated Series Award

BBC Storyville Executive Producer: Nick Fraser BBC TV		DR2 Dokumania (Winner) Executive Producer: Mette Hoffmann Meyer DR TV
Independent Lens Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen ITVS, PBS		Pacific Heartbeat Executive Producers: Leanne Ferrer and Leslie Wilcox American Public Television, Pacific Islanders in Communications
POV Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White POV, PBS

Best Limited Series Award

Belief Executive Producers: Sheri Salata, Jonathan Sinclair, David Shadrack Smith and Oprah Winfrey OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network		Cooked Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Stacey Offman, Michael Pollan and Caroline Suh Netflix
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth Executive Producers: Scott Boggins, Ken Druckerman, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon and Banks Tarver Co-Executive Producers: Ted Bourne and Mary Robertson Showtime		Making a Murderer (Winner) Executive Producers: Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi Netflix
Streets of Compton Executive Producers: Brad Abramson, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Mark Ford, The Game, Alan Grunblatt, John Morayniss, Cash "Wack 100" Jones, Tara Long, Kevin Lopez and Shelly Tatro Entertainment One Reality Productions, Creature Films for A&E

Best Episodic Series Award

Chef’s Table Executive Producers: David Gelb, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Brian McGinn and Matthew Weaver Netflix		The First 48 Executive Producers: Elaine Frontain Bryant, Laura Fleury, John X. Kim, Alexis Robie and Peter Tarshis Co-Executive Producers: Joey Grossfield and Maija Norris A&E
Last Chance U (Winner) Executive Producers: Joe LaBracio, Dawn Ostroff, Lucas Smith, James Stern and Greg Whiteley Netflix		United Shades of America Executive Producers: W. Kamau Bell, Jimmy Fox, Eli Holzman, Stephen Lambert, Star Price and Layla Smith All3Media America, CNN Original Series, Objective Productions USA
Woman with Gloria Steinem Executive Producers: Spike Jonze, Nomi Ernst Leidner, Eddy Moretti, Amy Richards, Shane Smith, Gloria Steinem and Ariel Wengroff Co-Executive Producer: Joanna Forscher VICE Media for Viceland

Best Short Form Series Award

30:30 Shorts Executive Producers: John Dahl, Libby Geist and Connor Schell ESPN		Children Deported Executive Producer: Christer Fasmer VGTV
Field Of Vision (Winner) Executive Producers: Charlotte Cook, Laura Poitras and AJ Schnack Field of Vision		NomiNation Executive Producers: Lisa Leingang, Adam Pincus and AJ Schnack VANITY FAIR / VANITYFAIR.COM
The New York Times Op-Docs Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo The New York Times

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.

4.1 Miles (Winner) Director: Daphne Matziaraki UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism		The Earth Did Not Speak Director and Producer: Javier Briones San Francisco State University
How History May Come Director: Olesya Mazur Sydney Film School		My Life As a Film- How My Father Tried to Capture Happiness Director: Eva Vitija Producers: Daniel Howald and Anita Wasser Zurich University of the Arts
Transit Zone Director: Frederik Subei Edinburgh College of Art

ABC News VideoSource Award

This award is given each year for the best use of news footage as an integral component in a documentary.

13th (Winner) Director: Ava DuVernay Netflix		I Am Not Your Negro Director: Raoul Peck Magnolia Pictures
The Lovers and the Despot Director: Ross Adam and Robert Cannan Magnolia Pictures		Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Directors: Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack PBS, American Masters
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Loki Films, Thirteen/WNET, Music Box Films, PBS, American masters

Pare Lorentz Award Winner

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.

Starless Dreams
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
The Cinema Guild

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

Fire at Sea
Cinematography by: Gianfranco Rosi
Kino Lorber

Best Editing

Cameraperson
Edited by: Nels Bangerter
Janus Films

Best Writing

I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin material compiled and edited by Raoul Peck
Magnolia Pictures, Independent Lens

Best Music

The Bad Kids
Original Score by: Jacaszek
FilmRise, ITVS

32nd Annual IDA Documentary Awards Honorees