From Laura Poitras, My Country, My Country
Can't figure out what to add to your Netflix queue? To complement the Oscars nods, we've rounded up a list of honors and critics picks for 2006 in case you need a few suggestions.
American Cinema Editors
Best Edited Documentary--Nominees: An Inconvenient Truth (Jay Cassidy, ACE, and Dan Swietlik); Baghdad ER (Patrick McMahon, ACE, and Carrie Goldman); When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, part one (Samuel D. Pollard)
Boston Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: Tie: Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg) and Shut Up & Sing (Barbara Kopple and Celia Peck)
Broadcast Film Critics Association
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Chicago Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
European Film Awards
Prix Arte--Documentary: Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Best Documentary nominees: A Lion in the House (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert); My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras); The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross); The Trials of Darryl Hunt (Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg); You're Gonna Miss Me (Keven McAlester)
Axium Truer Than Fiction Award nominees: Adele Horne for The Tailenders, Eric Daniel Metzgar for The Chances of the World Changing, AJ Schnack for Kurt Cobain About a Son
IFP Gotham Awards
Best Documentary: Iraq in Fragments (James Longley)
IndieWIRE Critics Poll
Best Documentary: Iraq in Fragments (James Longley)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Documentary/Non-Fiction Film winner: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim); Runner Up: Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper)
Special Citation: Jonas Mekas for his contributions to American film culture as filmmaker, critic and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives.
National Board of Review
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: Jonathan Demme
National Society of Film Critics
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
New York Film Critics Circle
Best Documentary: Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg)
Online Film Critics Society
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Southeastern Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Wyatt Award--for the film that best captures the "spirit of the South": Shut Up & Sing (Barbara Kopple and Celia Peck)
Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal)
Washington, DC Film Critics Association
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Writers Guild of America, west
Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Writing for the Screen--Nominees: Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg); The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill); Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (Story by Mark Monroe and John Dower, Screenplay by Mark Monroe); Who Killed The Electric Car? (Chris Paine); Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki)