Friday, December 04, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 11:30 PM (PT)
Friday, December 4, 2009
7pm Doors Open
8pm Awards Show
Post-show dessert, coffee, and cocktails reception
@
Directors Guild of America
7920 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90046
Ira Glass to Host 2009 IDA Documentary Awards
IDA welcomes back Ira Glass, himself an IDA Award recipient, as host of the 2009 Awards. Glass is host and producer of This American Life, heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by over 1.8 million listeners. This American Life
has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic
excellence, including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards. In
March 2007, the television adaptation of This American Life
premiered on Showtime to great acclaim winning IDA's Distinguished
Continuing Series Award in 2008 as well as several Emmy awards in 2008
and 2009.
Join Ira and IDA as we honor the best documentaries of the year!
The IDA will award its prestigious 2009 Career Achievement
Award to legendary and innovative filmmaker Errol Morris. Given to a filmmaker
who has made a major impact on the documentary genre through a long and
distinguished body of work, the IDA Career Achievement Award has previously
been awarded to Sheila Nevins, Michael Apted, Ken Burns, Albert Maysles,
Haskell Wexler, Michael Moore, and last year’s recipient, Werner Herzog. Part
detective, part philosopher, part poet, part iconoclast, Errol Morris is one of
the most important and influential non-fiction filmmakers of his generation.
His movies have achieved great critical success, and he has received a
Guggenheim fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. His
artistic journey has resulted in such landmark works as The Thin Blue Line, Standard
Operating Procedure and Academy Award Winner The Fog of War.
More Honorees and Nominees
will be announced soon.
Check here for more info, news, and updates.
Tickets will not be mailed. Guests are required to check-in at the event to gain admission.
The IDA was founded in 1982 as a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to supporting the efforts of nonfiction film and video makers throughout the United States and the world; promoting the documentary form; and expanding opportunities for the production, distribution, and exhibition of documentary. The IDA is committed to continuing its efforts to increase public appreciation and demand for documentary films, videos, and television programs across all ethnic, political and socioeconomic boundaries.
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