2024 Documentary Awards Round-Up for BGDM Member Films

Lissa Deonarain • December 11, 2024

Tis the season...for documentary awards! It's been a jam-packed year of incredible documentaries, many of which our members created or worked on. We've made a huge round-up of some of the top documentary awards happening as 2024 closes out: International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards winners and nominations, Critics' Choice Awards winners and nominations and Cinema Eye Honors nominations. That's not all: a ton of member films have been shortlisted for Academy Awards, including Black Box Diaries, Daughters, Frida, Sugarcane, Union, I Am Ready Warden, Instruments of a Beating Heart, The Only Girl in the Orchestra, Planestwalker and Until He's Back.

These are films you'll definitely want to keep on your radar as awards season continues into the new year. Give a big round of applause for these films, their teams and the members who made them possible.


Lissa Deonarain
Lissa Deonarain

Lissa Deonarain (she/they) is a queer, disabled, multiracial Guyanese-American documentary filmmaker, editor, communications specialist and producer. She has produced films around the world, and worked with award-winning directors.