BEST FEATURE AWARD
Citizenfour
Director: Laura Poitras
RADiUS-TWC, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films
Finding Vivian Maier
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Sundance Selects
Point and Shoot
Director: Marshall Curry
The Orchard
The Salt of the Earth
Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Sony Pictures Classics
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Director: Nick Broomfield
HBO and SKY ATLANTIC
BEST SHORT AWARD
Ghost Train
Directors: Kelly Hucker, James Fleming
Premium Films (France)
Our Curse
Director: Tomasz Śliwiński
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Director: Edgar Barens
HBO Documentary Films
Tashi and the Monk
Directors: Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke
The Queen
Director: Manuel Abramovich
BEST CURATED SERIES AWARD
American Experience
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
Senior Producer: Sharon Grimberg
PBS
American Masters
Executive Producer: Susan Lacy
PBS
Independent Lens
Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
Deputy Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with PBS
POV
Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry
Series Producer: Chris White
POV/ PBS
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Executive Producer: Rick Bernstein
HBO Sports
BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD
Chicagoland
Executive Producers: Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin, Laura Michalchyshyn, Robert Redford
CNN/ BCTV and Sundance Productions
COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey
Executive Producers: Brannon Braga, Mitchell Cannold, Ann Druyan, Seth MacFarlane
FOX/ National Geographic Channel
The Sixties
Executive Producers: Gary Goeztman, Tom Hanks, Mark Herzog
CNN/ Playtone and Herzog & Co
Time of Death
Executive Producers: Cynthia Childs, Dan Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Alexandra Lipsitz, Jane Lipsitz
Co-Executive Producer: Miggi Hood
Showtime
Years of Living Dangerously
Executive Producers: Daniel Abbasi, Joel Bach, James Cameron, David Gelber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Weintraub
Showtime
BEST EPISODIC SERIES AWARD
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
Executive Producer and Host: Anthony Bourdain
Executive Producers: Chris Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig
CNN
Morgan Spurlock Inside Man
Executive Producer and Host: Morgan Spurlock
Executive Producers Jeremy Chilnick, Mathew Galkin
Warrior Poets/CNN
Oprah’s Master Class
Executive Producers: Jon Kamen, Jonathan Sinclair, Justin Wilkes, Oprah Winfrey
OWN/ Harpo Studios
Our America with Lisa Ling
Executive Producers: Amy Bucher, Gregory Henry, Lisa Ling, David Shadrack Smith
OWN
VICE
Executive Producer: BJ Levin, Bill Maher, Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith
HBO
BEST SHORT FORM SERIES AWARD
A Short History of the Highrise
Executive Producers: Jason Spingarn-Koff, Silva Basmajian
National Film Board of Canada and The New York Times
Last Chance High
Executive Producer: Jason Mojica
VICE News
Op-Docs
Executive Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff
The New York Times
Planet Money Makes a T-shirt
Executive Producer: Alex Blumberg
NPR
Russian Roulette
Executive Producers: Jason Mojica, Kevin Sutcliffe
VICE News
HUMANITAS AWARD
How I Got Over
Director: Nicole Boxer
Keep On Keepin’ On
Director: Alan Hicks
RADiUS-TWC
Limited Partnership
Director: Thomas G. Miller
PBS / Independent Lens
DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Cast in India
Director: Natasha Raheja
New York University
Evaporating Borders
Director: Iva Radivojevic
CUNY – Hunter College
Hotel 22
Director: Elizabeth Lo
Stanford University
My Dad’s a Rocker
Director: Zuxin Hou
University of Southern California
Solitary Plains
Director: J. Christian Jensen
Stanford University
ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD
1971
Director: Johanna Hamilton
Independent Lens/ PBS
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Executive Producers: Gary Goeztman, Tom Hanks, Mark Herzog
CNN/ Playtone and Herzog & Co
Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
HBO Documentary Films
Concerning Violence
Director: Göran Hugo Olsson
Kino Lorber
The Joe Show
Director: Randy Murray
Investigation Discovery/ Film Buff
CREATIVE RECOGNITION AWARDS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY presented by Canon
Elevator
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Hatuey Viveros Lavielle
BEST EDITING
Last Days in Vietnam
EDITING BY: Don Kleszy
BEST MUSIC
Alfred and Jakobine
MUSIC BY: Nick Urata
BEST WRITING
Finding Vivian Maier
WRITTEN BY: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
PARE LORENTZ AWARD
Tashi and the Monk
Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke
EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER AWARD sponsored by Red Fire Films and Modern VideoFilm
Darius Clark Monroe
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Robert Redford
PIONEER AWARD
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
PRESERVATION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Rithy Panh
