"Nostalgia for the Light" Wins Big at 2011 IDA Awards

The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced their 2011 awards during tonight's program, with Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's "Nostalgia for the Light" receiving the Best Feature award.

Sara Nesson's "Poster Girl" took Best Short and Werner Herzog presented Les Blank with IDA's Career Achievement award.

The full list of winners:
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Les Blank

JACQUELINE DONNET EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Danfung Dennis

BEST FEATURE AWARD
"NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT"
Director/Writer: Patricio Guzmán
Producer: Renate Sachse
Atacama Productions (France), Blinker Filmproduction GmbH and WDR (Germany), and Cronomedia Ltda. (Chile), Icarus Films

BEST SHORT AWARD
"POSTER GIRL"
Director/Producer: Sara Nesson
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (HBO)
Producer: Mitchell Block
Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein (HBO)
Consulting Producer: Ross Kauffman
Portrayal Films, Inc. in association with HBO Documentary Films

BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD
"BOOMTOWN"
Executive Producer/Director: Rachel Libert
Executive Producers: Josh Braun, Ken Druckerman, Susannah Ludwig, Banks Tarver
Co-Executive Producer: Matthew Galkin
Producer: Kevin Vargas
Left/Right Inc., Discovery Channel- Planet Green

BEST CONTINUING SERIES AWARD
"POV"
Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry
Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia López
VP of Programming and Production: Chris White
Series Producer: Yance Ford
Coordinating Producer: Andrew Catauro
American Documentary | POV

DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
"GUAÑAPE SUR"
Director/Executive Producer/Writer: János Richter
Executive Producers: Heidi Gronauer, Lorenzo Paccagnella
Producer: Georg Zelle
ZeLIG- School for Documentary, Andanafilms, Icarus Films

HUMANITAS DOCUMENTARY AWARD
"POSITION AMONG THE STARS (STAND VAN DE STERREN)"
Director/Writer: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Producer/Writer: Hetty Naaijkens - Retel Helmrich
Scarabee Films and HUMAN Broadcasting in association with HBO Documentary Films

ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD
"THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH"
Director/Producer/Writer: Chad Freidrichs
Producers: Jaime Freidrichs, Paul Fehler, Brian Woodman
Unicorn Stencil Documentary Films

PARE LORENTZ AWARD
"THE LAST MOUNTAIN"
Director/Producer/Writer: Bill Haney
Executive Producers: Tim Disney, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Tim Rockwood
Producers: Clara Bingham, Eric Grunebaum
Writer: Peter Rhodes
Uncommon Productions, Dada Films, New Video

CREATIVE RECOGNITION AWARDS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"IL CASTELLO"
Cinematography: Massimo D'Anolfi
Directors: Massimo D'Anolfi & Martina Parenti

BEST EDITING:
"SENNA"
Editors: Chris King & Gregers Sall
Director: Asif Kapadia

BEST MUSIC:
"BETTER THIS WORLD"
Composer: Paul Brill
Directors: Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega

 Originally posted here.