Let the Fire Burn Leads Nominated Docs at the IDA Awards

The international Documentary Association revealed their nominations for the years best docs, honoring Let the Fire Burn, The Square, Cutie and the Boxer and more.

The nominations for the 2013 IDA Documentary Awards were announced today, an early stab at naming the best documentaries of the year and getting an early jump on the year-end superlative race.

In the top category of Best Feature, the IDA nominated a rather diverse quintet, ranging from the politically incendiary (Jason Osders Let the Fire Burn; Jehane Noujaims The Square) to the formally daring (Joshua Oppenheimers The Act of Killing; Sarah Polleys Stories We Tell) to the popular and rabble-rousing (Gabriela Cowperthwaites Blackfish). Last year, Best Feature nominees Searching for Sugar Man and The Invisible War went on to be nominated for the Academy Award.

Let the Fire Burn, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, saw itself recognized a grand total of four times, including nominations for the ABCNews VideoSource Award and the Humanitas Award, and a Best Editing citation. Other Tribeca titles getting recognition include: Cutie and the Boxer, whose director, Zachary Heinzerling, will receive the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award; and How to Make Money Selling Drugs, which will receive an award for its writing by Matthew Cooke.

The Square, a real-time look at the Egyptian uprisings in Tahrir Square, followed up with three nominations, also cited in the Humanitas and ABCNews VideoSource categories. Winners will be announced on December 6th in Los Angeles.

The full slate of IDA Documentary Nominations:

BEST FEATURE AWARD

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

Let the Fire Burn

Stories We Tell

The Square

BEST SHORT AWARD

The Eduication of Muhammad Hussein

The Flogsta Roar

Nine to Ninety

Slomo

Vultures of Tibet

BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD

180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School

Inside Combat Rescue

Inside Man

Viewfinder: Latin America

Witness

BEST CONTINUING SERIES AWARD

30 for 30

Curiosity

Independent Lens

POV

Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel

DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD

Between Land and Sea

Ome: Takes from a Vanishing Homeland

My Sister Sarah

Sodiq

Why We Race

HUMANITAS AWARD

Antons Right Here

Blood Brother

Let the Fire Burn

The Square

PARE LORENTZ AWARD

A Place at the Table

ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

All the Presidents Men Revisited

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Let the Fire Burn

The Trials of Muhammad Ali

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

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