WAR DANCE, WHICH WAY HOME, ANVIL, ENGLISH SURGEON Among 2010 N&D Emmy Winners

WAR DANCE, nominated for an Oscar in 2008, took two News and Documentary Emmys last night at ceremonies in New York, including Best Documentary and Outstanding Cinematography.  The film, by Sean and Andrea Nix Fine was aired on the Sundance Channel after a theatrical release by the departed THINKFilm.  HBO's WHICH WAY HOME, which garnered Oscar and Spirit Award nominations earlier this year for director Rebecca Cammisa, received the Emmy for Outstanding Informational Programming - Long Form.

Cammisa's film had led all documentary nominees going into the night with four nominations.

As we noted when we posted about the nominees in July, the News and Documentary Emmys often seem like a golden oldies round-up, as films that burst on the festival scene in 2007 (the aforementioned War Dance) compete with more recent films - and with longer, journalistic pieces from venerable PBS programs like Frontline, Nova and Bill Moyers Journal.

Among the other feature/cinematic documentaries honored last night - Sascha Gervasi's ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL, which took the Arts and Culture prize, Geoffrey Smith's THE ENGLISH SURGEON, which won the Emmy for Science and Technology program and Jeremy Simmons' THE LAST BEEKEEPER, the winner for Nature Programming.

A full list of winners can be found here.  Winners in categories where feature documentaries were competitive are after the break.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

WAR DANCE
Sundance Channel
Directors: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY‑‑LONG FORM

A DEATH IN TEHRAN
Frontline (PBS)
Producer: Monica Garnsey

OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM--LONG FORM

THE WARNING
Frontline (PBS)
Producer/Director: Michael Kirk
Producers: Jim Gilmore & Mike Wiser

OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING--LONG FORM

WHICH WAY HOME
HBO Documentary Films
Director/Producer: Rebecca Cammisa

OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL PROGRAMMING--LONG FORM

THE GOOD SOLDIER
Bill Moyers Journal (PBS)
Producer/Directors: Lexy Lovell & Michael Uys

OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING

ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
VH1
Director: Sascha Gervasi
Producer: Rebecca Yeldham

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMMING

THE ENGLISH SURGEON
POV (PBS)
Director/Producer: Geoffrey Smith

OUTSTANDING NATURE PROGRAMMING

THE LAST BEEKEEPER
Planet Green
Director: Jeremy Simmons
Producers: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT: RESEARCH

SPLIT ESTATE
Reel Impact Series (Planet Green)
Researchers: Mitchell Marti & Matt Vest

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT: CINEMATOGRAPHY

WAR DANCE
Sundance Channel
Cinematographer: Sean Fine

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT: EDITING

AFGHAN WARRIOR
National Geographic's Most Incredible Places
Editor: Jeremy Siefer

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT: MUSIC AND SOUND

POINT OF NO RETURN
WWII in HD (History Channel)
Sound Design: Joel Raabe