Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, directed by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht won the top prize for Best Feature at the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards. The Netflix documentary film produced under Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions also won the ABC News VideoSource Award, which is given for the best use of news footage in a documentary.
Winners of 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards
BEST FEATURE
Crip Camp
Directors and Producers: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht
Producer: Sara Bolder
USA / Netflix
BEST DIRECTOR
Garrett Bradley (Time.)
USA / Amazon Studios, Concordia Studio, The New York Times
BEST SHORT
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
Director and Producer: Matthew Killip
USA / Netflix
BEST CURATED SERIES
American Experience
Executive Producers: Susan Bellows and Mark Samels
USA / PBS
BEST EPISODIC SERIES
Last Chance U
Director and Executive Producer: Greg Whiteley
Executive Producers: Joe LaBracio, James D. Stern, Lucas Smith, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard
USA / Netflix
BEST MULTI-PART DOCUMENTARY
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
Directors and Executive Producers: Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, Joshua Bennett, Jeff Dupre
Executive Producers: John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorious, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller
USA / HBO
BEST SHORT FORM SERIES
POV Shorts
Producer: Opal H. Bennett
Executive Producers: Justine Nagan, Chris White
USA / PBS
BEST AUDIO DOCUMENTARY
Somebody
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.
Associate Producer: Ellen Glover
Executive Producers: Jamie Kalven, Maria Zuckerman, Christy Gressman, Leital Molad
USA / Topic Studios, The Intercept, the Invisible Institute, and iHeartRadio, in association with Tenderfoot TV
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Universe
Directors: Sam Osborn and Nicholas Capezzera
Producers: Esther Dere and Leah Natasha Thomas
USA
DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
People Like Me
Director/Producer: Marrok Sedgwick, Co-Editor: Jackson Patrick-Sternin
USA / University of California Santa Cruz
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Cinematographer: Viacheslav Tsvietkov
Ukraine, Lithuania
BEST EDITING
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Editor: Nels Bangerter
USA / Netflix
BEST WRITING
Dick Johnson is Dead
Writers: Nels Bangerter and Kirsten Johnson
USA / Netflix
PARE LORENTZ AWARD
My Octopus Teacher
Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Producer: Craig Foster
USA/Netflix
Honorable Mention: Crip Camp
Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder
USA / Netflix
ABC NEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD
Crip Camp
Directors/Producers: Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht. Producer: Sara Bolder
USA / Netflix
BEST MUSIC SCORE
My Octopus Teacher
Composer: Kevin Smuts
USA/Netflix