IDA’s 2009 Doc Award nominees
By Craig Kennedy - November 12th, 2009; 1:00 pm
IDA nominee Anvil! The Story of Anvil
indieWIRE has the IDA Documentary Award nominees with Afghan Star, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Diary of a Times Square Thief, Food Inc. and Mugabe and the White African all vying for the top prize that will be awarded at the Directors Guild of America on December 4.
A notable omission is The Cove, though that film will compete for the Pare Lorentz Award along with other films including Food, Inc., Mugabe and the White African and Earth Days.
Last year, James Marsh’s Man on Wire and Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir split the top honor.
Check out indieWIRE for a full list of nominees in all categories.
Filed under: Awards
Tags: IDA, International Documentary Association
I’ve only seen three of the top 5, but on balance I have to say this has been a fairly disappointing year for docs. Anvil and Heart of Stone are in my top few, maybe followed by Food Inc and Tyson.
Afghan Star was generally interesting but not very compelling. I even wrote about it but I couldn’t tell you now what I said.
I would like to see Diary and Mugabe, but don’t see either on any list heading this way, unfortunately. In any case I still think The Way We Get By will start picking up awards steam in due time, along with a few others that haven’t been released yet.