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"Citizenfour," the Edward Snowden documentary from director Laura Poitras, was named the Best Feature documentary of the year according to the International Documentary Association which revealed the winners of the 2014 Ida Documentary Awards.

Here's the complete list of the winners of the 2014 Ida Documentary Awards"

Career Achievement Award

Robert Redford

Pioneer Award

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

Preservation And Scholarship Award

Rithy Panh

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award sponsored by Red Fire Films and Modern VideoFilm

Darius Clark Monroe

Best Feature Award

Citizenfour

Director: Laura Poitras

RADiUS-twc, Participant Media, and

HBO Documentary Films

Best Short Award

Tashi And The Monk

Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke

HBO Documentary Films

Best Curated Series Award

Independent Lens

Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer

Deputy Executive Producer: Lois Vossen

Independent Television Service (Itvs) in association with PBS

Best Limited Series Award

Time Of Death

Executive Producers: Cynthia Childs, Dan Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Alexandra Lipsitz

Co-Executive Producer: Miggi Hood,...

It's sort of a bummer to me that the two films at the forefront of this year's Best Documentary Oscar race — Laura Poitros' "Citizenfour" and Steve James' "Life Itself," each of which I like just fine — can't really hold a candle to some of the very best films in contention, whether "The Overnighters" (my favorite), "Tales of the Grim Sleeper," "Virunga," etc. Alas, that's how it's shaping up. And that's just, like, my opinion, man. But I get it. We must protect whistleblowers and the spotlight of the Oscars is important for this kind of thing, yada, yada, yada. (Not that there isn't a ton of nuance in this situation to be chewed on no matter what side of the political line you fall on.) But... Anyway, Poitros' film won the International Documentary Association's Best Feature prize Friday night, out of a field of nominees that included the aforementioned "Grim...

Laura Poitras’ acclaimed documentary has prevailed in the International Documentary Association’s 2014 Ida Documentary Awards.

Citizenfour was named best feature and centres on Nsa whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Johnny Burke and Andrew Hinton’s Tashi And The Monk won best short and the Pare Lorentz Award, presented to films that demonstrate “exemplary filmmaking while focusing on environmental and social issues.”

Robert Redford received the Ida’s Career Achievement Award.

Full list of winners:

Career Achievement Award

Robert Redford

Pioneer Award

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

Preservation And Scholarship Award

Rithy Panh

Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award Sponsored by Red Fire Films and Modern VideoFilm

Darius Clark Monroe

Best Feature Award

Citizenfour

Best Short Award

Tashi And The Monk

Best Curated Series Award

Independent Lens

Executive producer: Sally Jo Fifer

Deputy executive producer: Lois Vossen

Best Limited Series Award

Time Of Death

Executive Producers: Cynthia Childs, Dan Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Alexandra Lipsitz

Co-Executive Producer: Miggi Hood, Sandy Shapiro

Best...

The International Documentary Association (Ida) announced nominations for the 2014 Ida Documentary Awards today, with awards being bestowed December 5th at the Paramount Theatre on the studio lot. The top films nominated in the best feature category include the critically-acclaimed Citizenfour from filmmaker Laura Poitras about Edward Snowden and the state of surveillance of civilians post 9/11 which has been enjoying a theatrical run and Nick Broomfield’s Tales Of The Grim Sleeper about the serial killer who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over 25 years. In the limited series category is Playtone’s CNN doc The Sixties, among others. Best episodic include Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class and HBO’s Vice exec produced by Bill Maher (and others). In addition, Robert Redford will receive the Career Achievement award from the Ida.

Winners in the Best Feature and Best Short categories are selected by Ida’s international membership. Screening committees of industry professionals based in New York City,...

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