The Cove and Music By Prudence win Oscars

The Cove, a documentary by Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens which exposed the killing of dolphins in a cove in Japan for the purpose of supporting the whale meat market, won Best Documentary Feature at the 2010 Oscars which took place on Sunday, March 7. The award for Best Documentary Short went  to Music by Prudence by Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett.

The Cove, which was directed by Psihoyos and produced by Fisher Stevens, has already won a long list of awards in 2009, including the U.S. Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival, the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards for Best Documentary Feature and three prestigious Cinema Eye Honors for outstanding achievement and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Feature Screenplay. Find out more at www.thecovemovie.com.

Roger Ross WIlliams directed Music by Prudence and shared a co-producer credit with Elinor Burkett. Zimbabwean teacher Prudence Mabhena - the central figure in the documentary - was in the audience at the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood. Find out more at www.musicbyprudence.com

Documentary Feature Nominees:

Burma VJ -  Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
  
The Cove - Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
          
Food, Inc. - Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
   
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
   
 Which Way Home - Rebecca Cammisa
 
Documentary Short Nominees:

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province - Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill   

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner -  Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
    
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant - Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

Music by Prudence - Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Rabbit à la Berlin - Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra