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International Documentary Association

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    IDA Award

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    Best Curated Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Independent Lens

      8.2 (717)
      Lois Vossen
      Sally Jo Fifer
    • [object Object]

      Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

      7.8 (477)
      Rick Bernstein
    • [object Object]

      P.O.V.

      8.1 (281)
      Chris White
      Simon Kilmurry
    • [object Object]

      American Experience

      8.6 (2.5K)
      Sharon Grimberg
      Mark Samels
    • [object Object]

      American Masters

      8.2 (1.3K)
      Susan Lacy

    Best Episodic Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Our America with Lisa Ling

      7.9 (170)
      Amy Bucher(executive producer)
      Gregory Henry(executive producer)
      Lisa Ling(executive producer)
      David Shadrack Smith(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

      8.9 (7.7K)
      Anthony Bourdain(executive producer)
      Christopher Collins(executive producer)
      Lydia Tenaglia(executive producer)
      Sandra Zweig(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Morgan Spurlock Inside Man

      8.0 (440)
      Morgan Spurlock(executive producer)
      Jeremy Chilnick(executive producer)
      Matthew Galkin(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Oprah's Master Class

      5.9 (237)
      Jon Kamen(executive producer)
      Jonathan Sinclair(executive producer)
      Justin Wilkes(executive producer)
      Oprah Winfrey(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Vice

      8.8 (4.4K)
      Bradley J. Levin(executive producer)
      Bill Maher(executive producer)
      Eddy Moretti(executive producer)
      Shane Smith(executive producer)

    Best Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Citizenfour

      8.0 (60K)
      Laura Poitras
    • [object Object]

      Finding Vivian Maier

      7.7 (16K)
      John Maloof
      Charlie Siskel
    • [object Object]

      Point and Shoot

      6.8 (1.8K)
      Marshall Curry
    • [object Object]

      The Salt of the Earth

      8.4 (25K)
      Wim Wenders
      Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
    • [object Object]

      Tales of the Grim Sleeper

      7.0 (3.3K)
      Nick Broomfield

    Best Limited Series

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Time of Death

      8.6 (302)
      Cynthia Childs(executive producer)
      Dan Cutforth(executive producer)
      Casey Kriley(executive producer)
      Jane Lipsitz(executive producer)
      Alexandra Lipsitz(executive producer)
      Miggi Hood(co-executive producer)
      Sandy Shapiro(co-executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Chicagoland

      7.8 (111)
      Mark Benjamin(executive producer)
      Marc Levin(executive producer)
      Laura Michalchyshyn(executive producer)
      Robert Redford(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

      9.2 (139K)
      Brannon Braga(executive producer)
      Mitchell Cannold(executive producer)
      Ann Druyan(executive producer)
      Seth MacFarlane(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      The Sixties

      8.4 (1.8K)
      Gary Goetzman(executive producer)
      Tom Hanks(executive producer)
      Mark Herzog(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Years of Living Dangerously

      8.4 (851)
      Daniel Abbasi(executive producer)
      Joel Bach(executive producer)
      James Cameron(executive producer)
      David Gelber(executive producer)
      Arnold Schwarzenegger(executive producer)
      Jerry Weintraub(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Chicagoland

      7.8 (111)
      Pagan Danielle Harleman
      CNN Films

    Best Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tashi and the Monk

      7.9 (481)
      Andrew Hinton
      Johnny Burke
    • [object Object]

      Ghost Train

      7.9 (28)
      Kelly Hucker
      James Fleming
    • [object Object]

      Our Curse

      7.1 (403)
      Tomasz Sliwinski
    • [object Object]

      Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

      7.5 (335)
      Edgar Barens
    • [object Object]

      The Queen

      7.0 (114)
      Manuel Abramovich

    Best Short Form Series

    • [object Object]

      Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt

      Alex Blumberg(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      A Short History of the Highrise

      7.5 (19)
      Jason Spingarn-Koff
      Silva Basmajian
    • [object Object]

      Last Chance High

      8.1 (84)
      Jason Mojica(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Op-Docs

      6.6 (57)
      Jason Spingarn-Koff(executive producer)

    • Russian Roulette

      Jason Mojica(executive producer)
      Kevin Sutcliffe(executive producer)

    Pare Lorentz Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tashi and the Monk

      7.9 (481)
      Andrew Hinton
      Johnny Burke

    Video Source Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      1971

      7.3 (948)
      Johanna Hamilton(director)
    • [object Object]

      The Assassination of President Kennedy

      5.3 (79)
      Gary Goetzman(executive producer)
      Tom Hanks(executive producer)
      Mark Herzog(executive producer)
    • [object Object]

      Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart

      6.4 (1.1K)
      Jeremiah Zagar(director)
    • [object Object]

      Concerning Violence

      7.5 (858)
      Göran Hugo Olsson(director)
    • [object Object]

      The Joe Show

      7.4 (48)
      Randy Murray(director)

    Humanitas Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Limited Partnership

      8.2 (148)
      Thomas G. Miller
    • [object Object]

      How I Got Over

      8.0 (15)
      Nicole Boxer
    • [object Object]

      Keep on Keepin' On

      7.7 (1.1K)
      Alan Hicks

    Preservation and Scholarship Award

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    • Rithy Panh in The Missing Picture (2013)
      Winner
      • Rithy Panh

    Pioneer Award

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    • Fenton Bailey at an event for Inside Deep Throat (2005)
      Randy Barbato at an event for Inside Deep Throat (2005)
      Winners
      • Fenton Bailey
      • Randy Barbato

    Career Achievement Award

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    • Robert Redford
      Winner
      • Robert Redford

    David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      My Dad's a Rocker

      7.6 (7)
      Zuxin Hou
      University of Southern California
    • [object Object]

      Cast in India

      7.0 (6)
      Natasha Raheja
      New York University
    • [object Object]

      Evaporating Borders

      7.4 (131)
      Iva Radivojevic
      CUNY - Hunter College
    • [object Object]

      Hotel 22

      6.9 (109)
      Elizabeth Lo
      Stanford University

    • Solitary Plains

      Christian Jensen
      Stanford University

    Creative Recognition Award

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    Best Cinematography

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Elevador

      7.8 (14)
      Hatuey Viveros Lavielle

    Best Editing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Last Days in Vietnam

      7.6 (4.2K)
      Don Kleszy

    Best Music

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Alfred and Jakobine

      8.5 (29)
      Nick Urata

    Best Writing

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Finding Vivian Maier

      7.7 (16K)
      John Maloof
      Charlie Siskel

    Amicus Award

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    • Winner
      • Darius Clark Monroe

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