36th International Documentary Association (IDA) Award Nominations

Best Feature
Collective 
Crip Camp 
Gunda
MLK/FBI 
The Reason I Jump 
Reunited
Softie
Time
The Truffle Hunters 
Welcome to Chechnya 

Best Director
Garrett Bradley "Time"
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw "The Truffle Hunters"
Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht "Crip Camp"
Sam Pollard "MLK/FBI"
Jerry Rothwell "The Reason I Jump"

Best Short
Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa
All That Perishes at the Edge of Land 
Huntsville Station 
Hysterical Girl
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens 

The Lost Astronaut 
sống ở đây 
To Calm the Pig Inside (Ang Pagpakalma sa Unos)
Unforgivable

Best Curated Series
30 for 30 
American Experience 
American Masters 
Reel Midwest
Reel South 

Best Episodic Series
Cheer 
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
Last Chance U 
Seven Planets, One World 
We’re Here 

Best Multi-Part Documentary
Asian Americans 
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered 
City So Real 
Hillary 
Lenox Hill 

Best Short Form Series
Almost Famous 
Guardian Documentaries 
Last Call For The Bayou: 5 Stories from Louisiana’s Disappearing Delta 
POV Shorts
Run This City 

Best Audio Documentary
Crosses in the Desert / Cruces en el desierto 
Fiasco: Bush v. Gore 
Girl Taken 
Heavyweight – The Marshes 
Somebody 

Best Music Documentary
Beastie Boys Story 
Billie 
Crock of Gold 
Los Hermanos / The Brothers
Universe (USA)

David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
Bananas 
Isle of Us
Na Luta Delas 
People Like Me
Susana 
Trees 

Best Cinematography
Acasă, My Home 
Boys State 
The Earth is Blue as an Orange 
The Truffle Hunters
Time 

Best Editing
Boys State
Crip Camp 
Disclosure 
Dick Johnson is Dead 
Through the Night 

Best Writing
Crip Camp 
Dick Johnson is Dead
I Am Not Alone
My Octopus Teacher 
Socks on Fire

Best Music Score
Dancing with the Birds 
David Attenborough: Life On Our Planet 
Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice
My Octopus Teacher 
Rising Phoenix

ABC News VideoSource Award

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn 
Crip Camp
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections
MLK/FBI 
The First Rainbow Coalition 

Pare Lorentz Award
My Octopus Teacher 
       HONORABLE MENTION - Crip Camp 

Career Achievement Award
Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI)

Courage Under Fire Award
David France, David Isteev and Olga Baranova (Welcome to Chechnya)

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
Garrett Bradley (Time)

Pioneer Award
Firelight Media

Truth to Power Award
Maria Ressa and Rappler (A Thousand Cuts)