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Awards

Academy Awards, USA

Oscar [Nominee] (2018)

Best Documentary Feature

Yance Ford becomes the first openly transgender ... More

Yance Ford becomes the first openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Strong Island (2017)

Primetime Emmy Awards

Primetime Emmy [Winner] (2018)

Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Strong Island (2017)

Berlin International Film Festival

Teddy [Nominee] (2017)

Best Documentary Film
Strong Island (2017)

Black Reel Awards

Black Reel [Nominee] (2018)

Outstanding Documentary Feature
Strong Island (2017)

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

Cinema Eye Honors Award [Winner] (2018)

The Unforgettables
Strong Island (2017)

Cinema Eye Honors Award [Winner] (2018)

Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film
Strong Island (2017)

Cinema Eye Honors Award [Winner] (2018)

Outstanding Achievement in Direction
Strong Island (2017)

Cinema Eye Honors Award [Winner] (2018)

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Strong Island (2017)

CPH:DOX

Politiken's Audience Award [Nominee] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

Critics' Choice Documentary Award [Nominee] (2017)

Best First Documentary
Strong Island (2017)

Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

Jury Prize [Winner] (2017)

Best Documentary
Strong Island (2017)

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award [Winner] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award [Winner] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

Gotham Awards

Gotham Independent Film Award [Winner] (2017)

Best Documentary
Strong Island (2017)

Audience Award [Nominee] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

International Documentary Association

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award [Winner] (2017)

IDA Award [Nominee] (2017)

Best Feature Documentary
Strong Island (2017)

IDA Award [Nominee] (2012)

Best Continuing Series
P.O.V. (1988)

IDA Award [Winner] (2011)

Best Continuing Series
P.O.V. (1988)

Video Source Award [Nominee] (2011)

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009)

Montclair Film Festival (MFF)

Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature [Winner] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

News & Documentary Emmy Awards

Emmy [Nominee] (2013)

Best Documentary
For episode "Nostalgia for the Light"
P.O.V. (1988)
Nostalgia de la luz (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2013)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
For episode "Give Up Tomorrow"
P.O.V. (1988)
Give Up Tomorrow (2011)

Emmy [Nominee] (2013)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
For episode "Granito: How to Nail a Dictator"
P.O.V. (1988)

Emmy [Nominee] (2013)

Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
For episode "My Reincarnation"
P.O.V. (1988)
My Reincarnation (2011)

Emmy [Nominee] (2013)

Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form
For episode "Nostalgia for the Light"
P.O.V. (1988)
Nostalgia de la luz (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2013)

Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
For episode "The City Dark"
P.O.V. (1988)
The City Dark (2011)

Emmy [Winner] (2012)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story - Long Form
For episode "Where Soldiers Come From"
P.O.V. (1988)
Where Soldiers Come From (2011)

Emmy [Winner] (2012)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
For episode "Enemies of the People"
P.O.V. (1988)
Enemies of the People (2009)

Emmy [Winner] (2012)

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form
P.O.V. (1988)
Gui tu lie che (2009)

Emmy [Winner] (2012)

Best Documentary
For episode "Last Train Home"
P.O.V. (1988)
Gui tu lie che (2009)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story - Long Form
For episode "Armadillo"
P.O.V. (1988)
Armadillo (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
For episode "Better This World"
P.O.V. (1988)
Better This World (2011)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
For episode "Mugabe and the White African"
P.O.V. (1988)
Mugabe and the White African (2009)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

Best Documentary
For episode "Better This World"
P.O.V. (1988)
Better This World (2011)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

Best Documentary
For episode "Armadillo"
P.O.V. (1988)
Armadillo (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

Best Documentary
For episode "Enemies of the People"
P.O.V. (1988)
Enemies of the People (2009)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Documentaries

For segment "Flawed" in the episode "POV Short ... More

For segment "Flawed" in the episode "POV Short Cuts" (8/23/2011)

P.O.V. (1988)

Emmy [Nominee] (2012)

New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture

For segment "StoryCorps: Miss Devine" in the ... More

For segment "StoryCorps: Miss Devine" in the episode "POV Short Cuts" (8/23/2011)

P.O.V. (1988)

Emmy [Winner] (2011)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
For episode "Presumed Guilty"
P.O.V. (1988)
Presunto culpable (2008)

Emmy [Winner] (2011)

Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
For episode "Food Inc."
P.O.V. (1988)
Food, Inc. (2008)

Emmy [Winner] (2011)

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form
For episode "Good Fortune"
P.O.V. (1988)
Good Fortune (2009)

Emmy [Winner] (2011)

Best Documentary
P.O.V. (1988)
Food, Inc. (2008)

Emmy [Winner] (2011)

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form
Good Fortune (2009)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Long Form
For episode "The Oath"
P.O.V. (1988)
The Oath (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
For episode "Off and Running"
P.O.V. (1988)
Off and Running (2009)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form
For episode "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy"
P.O.V. (1988)
Wo ai ni mommy (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming
For "Storycorps Animated Series"
P.O.V. (1988)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

Best Documentary
For episode "Presumed Guilty"
P.O.V. (1988)
Presunto culpable (2008)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

Best Documentary
For episode "The Oath"
P.O.V. (1988)
The Oath (2010)

Emmy [Nominee] (2011)

New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture
For "The Archive"
P.O.V. (1988)

Sheffield International Documentary Festival

Tim Hetherington Award [Winner] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)

Sundance Film Festival

Special Jury Prize [Winner] (2017)

Documentary
-Storytelling.
Strong Island (2017)

Grand Jury Prize [Nominee] (2017)

Documentary
Strong Island (2017)

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival

Amnesty International Award [Nominee] (2017)

Strong Island (2017)