IDA Feature Nominees: Crazy Love, Operation Homecoming, Sicko, Taxi to the Dark Side, Walk to Beautiful

One week after announcing the ten films that were shortlisted for their feature film award, the IDA has narrowed their list to five finalists and has also announced nominees for several other awards.

Making the final five in the Best Feature Documentary Category are:

CRAZY LOVE
Directed by Dan Klores

OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE
Directed by Richard E. Robbins

SICKO
Directed by Michael Moore

TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
Directed by Alex Gibney

A WALK TO BEAUTIFUL
Directed by Mary Olive Smith

Surprisingly, the nominees in two other categories - the IDA ABCNews Videosource Award and the IDA Pare Lorentz Award - do not include the names of three of the year's frontrunners for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar - NO END IN SIGHT, IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON and THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (although it's rumored that DEVIL may not have been submitted in time to make the IDA's deadlines).  In the past two years, both Academy Award winners in the documentary feature category were nominated for the Pare Lorentz Award even though they were left off the list of Feature Finalists.

There are a few other awards not yet announced by the IDA, including the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award and the new Alan Ett Music Documentary prize.  Details as soon as they are announced.

Here is the full list of nominees in other categories announced today by the IDA:

IDA SHORT FILM NOMINEES

BLACK AND WHITE
Directed by Zam Salim

BODY & SOUL: DIANA & KATHY
Directed by Alice Elliott

THE FIGHTING CHOLITAS
Directed by Mariam Jobrani

FREEHELD
Directed by Cynthia Wade

A SON'S SACRIFICE
Directed by Yoni Brook

IDA LIMITED SERIES NOMINEES

ADDICTION (HBO)
Directed by Jon Alpert, Joe Berlinger, Kate Davis, Susan Froemke, Liz Garbus, Chris Hegedus, David Heilbroner, Eugene Jarecki, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Barbara Kopple, Albert Maysles, DA
Pennebaker, Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond, Bruce Sinofsky and Jessica Yu

COMING OUT STORIES (LOGO)
Directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

THE HILL (Sundance)
Directed by Ivy Meeropol

THE SUPREME COURT (WNET/PBS)
Directed by Thomas Lennon

IDA CONTINUING SERIES NOMINEES

30 DAYS (F/X)
Executive Producers Morgan Spurlock, RJ Cutler, Ben Silverman and H.T. Owens

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (PBS)
Executive Producer Mark Samels         
Series Producer Sharon Grimberg

AMERICAN MASTERS (WNET/PBS)
Executive Producer Susan Lacy
Series Producer Prudence Glass

THIS AMERICAN LIFE (Showtime)
Directed by Chris Wilcha
Executive Producers Julie Snyder, Alex Blumberg, Ira Glass, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Christine Vachon and Jocelyn Hayes

WIDE ANGLE: SEASON FIVE (WNET/PBS)
Series Producers Pamela Hogan and Andy Halper
Executive Producer Stephen Segaller

IDA ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

AMERICAN/SANDINISTA
Directed by Jason Blalock

HALF-LIFE: A JOURNEY TO CHERNOBYL
Directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff

MY KID COULD PAINT THAT
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev

NANKING
Directed by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman

RAPSODIA DO ABSURDO
Directed by Cláudia Nunes       

SPUTNIK MANIA
Directed by David Hoffman

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME
Directed by Michele Ohayon

WHITE LIGHT/ BLACK RAIN
Directed by Steven Okazaki

IDA PARE LORENTZ NOMINEES

AMERICAN/SANDINISTA
Directed by Jason Blalock

GOOD MORNING DANGME
Directed by Takaya Kawasaki
    
MADE IN LA
Directed by Almudena Carracedo

OPERATION HOMECOMING: WRITING THE WARTIME EXPERIENCE
Directed by Richard E. Robbins

RAPSODIA DO ABSURDO
Directed by Cláudia Nunes       

RIBBON OF SAND
Directed by John Grabowska

STANDING SILENT NATION
Directed by Suree Towfighnia

A WALK TO BEAUTIFUL
Directed by Mary Olive Smith

WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS
Directed by Spike Lee

WHITE LIGHT/ BLACK RAIN
Directed by Steven Okazaki

IDA DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD NOMINEES

ALAGADOS: SI, NAO MAU CONDUOT
Directed by Sylvia Johnson

BISMILLAH: IN THE NAME OF ALLAH
Directed by Jolene Pinder and Sarah Zaman

BULLET PROOF VEST
Directed by May Lin Au Yong

GOOD MORNING, DANGME
Directed by Takaya Kawasaki

LONG HAUL
Directed by Erin Hudson

TIJUANA NADA MAS
Directed by Yolanda Pividal

Update October 26 - Today, the IDA announced the five nominees for its new Alan Ett Music Documentary Award.  They are:

4
Directed by Tim Slade

CHOPS
Directed by Bruce Broder

NOTE BY NOTE: THE MAKING OF STEINWAY L1037
Directed by Ben Niles

WAR/DANCE
Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix/Fine

WE ARE TOGETHER (THINA SIMUNYE)
Directed by Paul Taylor