Dispatches

Award-Winning Films

Features

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Dispatches films which have won awards, in chronological order.

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  • 2011

    Dispatches

    Saving Africa's Witch Children

    Won the Screen Nation 2011 Diversity in Factual Television Award

    The following awards for Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines

    DuPont Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism

    duPont Silver Baton Award 2011

    History Makers 2011: Best Current Affairs Production

    The Battle for Haiti
    won a BAFTA Television Craft Award for Director, Factual (Dan Reed)

    Children of Gaza
    won the Children's Rights Award

  • 2010

    Dispatches

    The following awards for Pakistan's Taliban Generation:

    International Emmy

    DuPont award for journalism 2010
    AIB awards 2010: Best Current Affairs Film

    BAFTA 2010 Best Current Affairs
    Terror in Mumbai 

    One World Awards 2010: TV Documentary
    Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines 

    Amnesty Awards 2010: Best Television Documentary
    Afghanistan's Dirty War 

    One World Awards: Children's Rights Award 2010
    Orphans of Burma's Cyclone 

  • 2009

    Dispatches

    Wincott Awards 2010: Best Television Coverage of a Topical Business Issue
    Crash: How long will it last? 

    The following awards for Saving Africa's Witch Children

    2009 BAFTA for best Current Affairs programme
    2009 International Emmy for 'Outstanding Current Affairs' programme
    2009 One World Media Award
    2009 Amnesty International Media Award' (TV documentary and docudrama category)
    2009 Religious Programme 'Merit' Award for the 'Sandford St Martin Trust
    2009 Joost Van der Walk winner of Sony Professional impact award at the Rory Peck Trust (cameraman for Saving Africa's Witch Children)

    Banff 2009 Best Political Documentary
    Warlords Next Door? 

  • 2008

    Dispatches

    Broadcast Awards 2008: Best Documentary
    China's Stolen Children 

    Banff 2008: Best Investigative and Current Affairs Programme
    Meeting the Taliban

  • 2007

    Dispatches

    The following awards for China's Stolen Children

    BAFTA TV Awards: Current Affairs
    BAFTA Craft Awards: Breakthrough Talent, Jezza Neumann
    BAFTA Craft Awards: Director Factual
    RTS Journalism Awards: Current Affairs, International
    MySpace Audience Award: Britdoc 2007
    One World Media Awards: Children's Rights Awards

    The following awards for Undercover in Tibet

    Royal Television Society Journalism Awards 2008: International Current Affairs
    Tibet Film Festival, Zurich: Best Film

    Rory Peck 2007 best feature
    Fighting the Taliban 

    RTS Journalism awards Current Affairs; International, 2007
    Iraq: The Death Squads

    Dispatches

    Voice of the listener and viewer 2007
    2007 award for Excellence in Broadcasting
    Best television programme: Dispatches

    The following awards for Lost For Words

    RTS/NIACE Award: Season-Campaigns and Seasons 2007
    RTS Educational Television Awards

    RTS Journalism awards: Best innovation and multimedia
    War Torn: Stories of Separation 

  • 2006

    Dispatches

    The following awards for Living With Aids 

    Best News and Current Affairs Documentary
    Montecarlo Golden Nymph Jul 2006

    The following awards for Public Service, Private Profit

    The Work Foundation Business Journalism Awards 2006: TV Programme Of The Year
    Wincott Foundation Business Awards: News and Current Affairs Programme Of The Year

    Broadcast Journalist of the Year; One World Media Awards 2006
    Sorious Samura

  • 2005

    Dispatches

    Channel 4 Creative Cities Award 2005
    Being Pamela

    BAFTA Television Awards 2006: Current Affairs
    Belsan 

    The following awards for Death in Gaza

    EMMY Award: Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking, 2005
    EMMY Award: Non-Fiction Directing, 2005
    EMMY Award: Cinematography, 2005
    BAFTA Award: Current Affairs 2005

    RTS North-West current affairs award 2005
    Undercover Angels 

  • 2004

    Dispatches

    The following awards for Death in Gaza

    Audience Award, Hot Docs Toronto 2004
    Innovation in Direction, Chicago Documentary Film Festival 2004
    Sterling Award for a Feature Film, AFI Silverdocs 2004
    Rory Peck Award for Features 2004
    One World Media Awards: Children's Rights Award

    Bar Council Legal Reporting Awards 2004: Winner Broadcast category
    Judges in the Dock

    The following awards for Living with Hunger

    Insight News
    Harry Chapin Media Awards, Oct 2004
    UNICEF Award
    Japan Prize, 2004

  • 2003

    Dispatches

    Foreign Press Association Media Awards Journalist of The Year: Jane Kokan
    Iran Undercover: Inside the Hidden Revolution 

    Rory Peck Award: Best Feature
    The Killing Zone 

    The following awards for Young Nazi and Proud

    Indie Awards 2003
    News and Current Affairs Award
    RTS Programme Awards 2003
    Best Newcomer; Behind the Screen (David Modell)
    BAFTA Television Awards 2003
    Current Affairs Award

  • 2002

    Dispatches

    The following awards for Beneath the Veil

    George Foster Peabody Awards
    BAFTA: Current Affairs
    Emmy: Outstanding Investigative Journalism
    One World Media Awards: Television Documentary of the YearPeabody Award, USA
    RTS Journalism Awards: Programme of the Year
    RTS Journalism Awards: International Current Affairs
    Saira Shah for Beneath the Veil Hardcash Prods): Television Journalist of the Year

    The following awards for Exodus

    Emmy Award, US, Sep 2002: Best Director
    The Overseas Press Club Award, US, April 2002: Madeline Dane Ross Award
    The John Hopkins’s SAIS-Novartis, US, April 2002: Excellence in International Journalism

    The following awards for Unholy War

    Emmy: Outstanding coverage of a continuing news story
    Peabody Award, USA.
    Christian Broadcasting Council Awards Silver Award Best Broadcast Documentary

  • 2001

    Dispatches

    BANFF Television Festival awards 2001 Information Programme Category Winner
    Beneath the Veil 

    The following awards for Cry Freetown

    Emmy Award, US, 2001: Best Investigative Programme
    BAFTA Award, London, May 2001: Best Current Affairs Journalism
    Peabody Award, US, April 2001: Best Documentary
    Mohammed Amin Award: Best Documentary
    The Overseas Press Club Award, US, April 2001: The Eric and Amy Burger Award
    Columbia DuPont Award, US, Jan 2001: Silver Baton

    The following awards for Exodus

    The Chicago Intl TV Competition, US, April 2001: News Documentary (Gold)
    One World Media Awards, UK, Jun 2001: Best TV Documentary
    Prix Europa, Germany, Oct 2001: Iris Award, Best Multicultural Programme

  • 2000

    Dispatches

    The following awards for Cry Freetown

    Royal TV Society (RTS) Award, UK, Nov 2000: Lighting, Photography and Camera
    Figra International Festival, France, Oct 2000: Olivier Quemener Prize (Silver)
    Montecatini Film Festival, Italy, July 2000: Festival Award
    Amnesty International Media Award, UK, Jun 2000: Best TV Documentary
    One World Media Award, UK, Jun 2000: Best TV Documentary
    One World Media Award, UK, Jun 2000: ICRC Dignity in Conflict Award




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