The 35th Annual IDA Award Nominations

Best Feature Nominees
Advocate
American Factory
Apollo 11
The Biggest Little Farm
The Edge of Democracy
For Sama
Honeyland
Midnight Family
One Child Nation
Sea of Shadows

Best Short Nominees
A Love Song for Latasha
After Maria
America
Los Comandos
Easter Snap
In the Absence
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl)
Sam and the Plant Next Door
The Nightcrawlers
Valley of the Rulers

Best Director 
Petra Costa "The Edge of Democracy"
Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche "Advocate"
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert "American Factory"
Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov "Honeyland"
Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts "For Sama"

Best Curated Series
American Experience
BBC Storyville
Dokumania
POV
AJE Witness

Best Episodic Series
Abstract: The Art of Design
Finding Justice
Kids Behind Bars: Life Or Parole
Living Undocumented
Our Planet

Best Multi-Part Documentary
Chasing the Moon
Leaving Neverland
Lorena
Surviving R. Kelly
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men

Best Short Form Series 
A Cure for Fear
A Moment in Mexico — The New York Times Op-Docs
Guardian Documentaries
POV Shorts
The F Word

Best Audio Documentary
Gladiator: The Aaron Hernandez Story
Headlong: Running from COPS
Heavyweight — Episode: “Skye”
Latino USA — Episode: “The Return”
A Sense of Quietness

Best Music Documentary
Amazing Grace
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
The Apollo
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award 
All That Remains
Beyond the North Winds: A Post Nuclear Reverie
Brewed in Palestine
Follow the Sun
In the Wake

Best Cinematography
Dark Suns
Gods of Molenbeek
Honeyland
Midnight Family
When Lambs Become Lions

Best Editing 
American Factory
Apollo 11
Diego Maradona
Human Nature
Midnight Family
When Lambs Become Lions

Best Music Score
Apollo 11
Human Nature
Sea of Shadows
The Biggest Little Farm
The Raft

Best Writing
Always in Season
Dark Suns
The Cave
The Edge of Democracy
The Great Hack

Pare Lorentz Award 
Honeyland

Honorable Mention - Anthropocene: The Human Epoch