The wildly entertaining social experimenting guinea pig, Morgan Spurlock, will be on hand to host the 2008 edition of the IDA’s 2008 IDA Documentary Awards. Spurlock will be master of ceremonies at the gala event, which is set to take place on December 5th at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles. Receiving the IDA Career Achievement award is the irrepressible and inimitable Werner Herzog , everyone’s favorite reality-blurring provocateur. And documentary editing legend Sam Pollard (WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS; 4 LITTLE GIRLS) will be honored with the Avid Excellence in Editing Award.

Tickets can be purchased here . A full list of the nominees follows:

Host

Morgan Spurlock

Honors

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Werner Herzog

PIONEER AWARD
Rob Epstein

PRESERVATION & SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Marina Goldovskaya

AVID EXCELLENCE IN EDITING AWARD
Sam Pollard

JACQUELINE DONNET EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Stefan Forbes

Feature Documentary Nominees

Kassim The Dream
Director/Producer: Kief Davidson
Producer: Liz Silver
Executive Producers: Forest Whitaker, Keisha Whitaker, Joshua Green
Believe Media, Urban Landscapes, Monaco Film Hamburg, ARTE/ZDF Enterprises

Man on Wire
Director: James Marsh
Producer: Simon Chinn
Red Box Films, Wall to Wall, Discovery Films, BBC, UK Film Council, Magnolia Pictures

Stranded: I’ve come from a plane that crashed in the mountains
Director: Gonzalo Arijón
Producer: Mark Silvera
Ethan Productions, La Realidad, ARTE France, ITVS International, Zeitgeist Films

Waltz with Bashir
Director/Producer: Ari Folman
Producers: Yael Nahlieli, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films d’Ici, Razor Film, ARTE France, ITVS International, Sony Pictures Classics

Young @ Heart
Director: Stephen Walker
Producer: Sally George
Walker George Films, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Short Documentary Nominees

Kick Like A Girl
Director/Producer: Jenny Mackenzie
Producers: Geralyn White Dreyfous, Jennifer Jordan
Jenny Mackenzie Films, Impact Partners, Chicken & Egg Films, HBO Documentary Films

Redemption Stone
Director/Producer: Tom Dziedzic

La Corona
Directors/Producers: Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega
Runaway Films, Vega Films, HBO Documentary Films

Tongzhi in Love
Director: Ruby Yang
Producer: Thomas Lennon
Thomas Lennon Films in association with Chang Ai Media Project.

Smile Pinki
Director/Producer: Megan Mylan
Principe Productions Inc.

Continuing Series Award-Nominees

American Masters
Susan Lacy, executive producer
Prudence Glass, series producer
Julie Sacks, series supervising producer
Thirteen/WNET New York, PBS

Episodes Submitted:
Good Ol’ Charles Schulz (David Van Taylor, dir.; Ali Pomeroy, prod.; Susan Lacy, Gerald Richman, Calvin Skaggs, exec. prods.)
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (Jim Brown, dir./prod.; Michael Cohl, William Eigen, prods.; Norman Lear, Toshi Seeger, exec. prods.)
David Hockney: The Colors of Music (Maryte Kavaliauskas, Seth Schneidman, dirs.; Chntal Bernheim, prod.)
Les Paul: Chasing Sound (John Paulson, dir.; James Arntz, prod.; Glenn Aveni, Susan Lacy, exec. prods.)

NOVA
Paula S. Apsell, senior executive producer
WGBH Science Unit, PBS

Episodes Submitted:
Car of The Future (Joseph Seamans, dir./prod.; Janet Driscoll Smith, prod.)
Ape Genius (John Rubin, dir./prod.; John Breder, exec. prod.)
Secrets of the Parthenon (Gary Glassman, prod.; Yves Jeanneau, Christine Le Goff, exec. prods.

This American Life
Created By Ira Glass/Chicago Public Radio
Chris Wilcha, director, co-executive producer
Jane Feltes, Sarah Koenig, Lisa Pollak, Robyn Semien, Alissa Shipp, Nancy Updike, producers
Julie Snyder, Alex Blumberg, Ira Glass, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel, executive producers
Left/Right, Killer Films, Chicago Public Radio, Showtime Networks

Episodes Submitted:

Escape
Two Wars
Going Down In History
John Smith

Wide Angle: Season 6
Pamela Hogan, executive producer
Nina Chaudry, senior producer
Thirteen/WNET New York, PBS

Episodes Submitted:
Dishing Democracy (Bregtje van der Haak, dir.; Femke Wolting,
Bruno Felix, prods.)
Brazil in Black & White (Adam Stepan, dir./prod.)
The People’s Court (Bruno Sorrentino, dir.; Maggie Still, prod.)
Victory Is Your Duty (Andrew Lang, dir.; Mandy Chang, prod.)

Limited Series Award–Nominees

CNN Presents: God’s Warriors
Christiane Amanpour, Kathy Slobogin, Andy Segal, Michael Mocklar, Ken Shiffman, Cliff Hackel, Dave Timko, Brian Rokus, Jen Christensen, Julie O’Neill, Jody Gottlieb
CNN Productions, CNN

The Jewish Americans
David Grubin, Dalton Delan, Jeff Bieber, Jay Sanderson, Stephen Segaller
JTN Productions, WETA Wahington, DC, David Grubin Productions, Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York

Sin City Law
Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Remy Burkel
Maha Productions, Arte, Sundance Channel

The War
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
Florentine Films, WETA-TV

ABCNews VideoSource Award–Finalists

American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver
Bruce Orenstein
Chicago Video Project, PBS

The Brothers Warner
Cass Warner Sperling
Warner Sisters, American Masters, PBS

Chevolution
Luis Lopez, Trisha Ziff
Netflix/Red Envelope Entertainment

A Day Late In Oakland
Zachary Stauffer
University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Get Collins
Steve Carson
RTE One

The Judge and the General
Elizabeth Farnsworth, Patricio Lanfranco
West Wind Productions, POV, PBC

The King of South Shields
Tina Gharavi, Craig Wilson
Bridge + Tunnel Productions

Les Paul: Chasing Sound
John Paulson, James Arntz
Paulson Productions, Icon Television Music, Thirteen/WNET, American Masters, PBS

The Passionate Eye- The Putin System
Jean-Michel Carré, Jill Emery
Les Films Grain De Sable, CBC Newsworld

Pray The Devil Back to Hell
Gini Reticker, Abigail Disney
Fork Films, Balcony Releasing

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Marina Zenovich, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Lila Yacoub
Antidote Films, HBO, THINKFilm

Trouble The Water
Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Elsewhere Films, Louverture Films, Zeitgeist Films

War Child
C. Karim Chrobog, Afshin Molava
18th Street Films, Independent Producers Alliance, Interfact Media Group, Porchlight Entertainment

IDA/Alan Ett Music Documentary Award – Nominees

American Harmony
Aengus James, Colin King Miller
This Is Just A Test Productions

Heavy Load
Jerry Rothwell, Al Morrow, Jonny Persey
APT Films, Met Film, Hi8us, IFC, ITVS International, BBC

La Paloma
Sigrid Faltin, Cédric Bonin
Seppia, White Pepper Filmgesellschaft, First Hand Films, Real Fiction Filmverleih

The Wrecking Crew
Denny Tedesco, Suzie Greene Tedesco, Jon Leonoudakis, Mitchell Linden, Claire Scanlon
Lunch Box Entertainment

Young @ Heart
Stephen Walker, Sally George
Walker George Films, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Pare Lorentz Award-Finalists

Burning The Future: Coal In America
David Novack, Alexis Zoullas
FireFly Pix, Sundance Channel

CNN Presents: God’s Warriors
Christiane Amanpour, Kathy Slobogin, Andy Segal, Michael Mocklar, Ken Shiffman, Cliff Hackel, Dave Timko, Brian Rokus, Jen Christensen, Julie O’Neill, Jody Gottlieb
CNN Productions, CNN

Daughters of the Revolution
Aeyliya Hussain

Garbage Warrior
Oliver Hodge, Rachel Wexler, Patrick Wilson
Open Eye Media, Sundance Channel, Documentary Channel, ITVS International

La Vida Loca
Christian Poveda, Carole Solive, Luis Bellaba, Emilio Maillé, Gustavo Angel
La Femme Endormie, Aquelarre, El Caiman

NOVA: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Gary Johnstone, Joseph McMaster, Vanessa Tovell
NOVA, Vulcan Productions, The Big Table Film Company, WGBH, PBS

Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Gini Reticker, Abigail Disney
Fork Films, Balcony Releasing

Saving Luna
Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisholm
Mountainside Films, CBC Newsworld, Telefilm Canada

Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris, Julie Bilson Ahlberg
Sony Pictures Classics, Participant Productions

War Child

Karim Chrobog, Afshin Molavi
18th Street Films, Independent Producers Alliance, Interfact Media Group, Porchlight Entertainment

IDA/David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award–Nominees

As We Forgive
Laura Waters Hinson
American University

A Day Late In Oakland
Zachary Stauffer
University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Jesse’s Dad
Boaz Dvir, Rebecca Goldman
University of Florida Documentary Institute

KURM RADIO: The Soapbox of the Air
Kellly Millar, Hayot Tuychiev, Nikki Wise
University of Arkansas

Pizzo
Carola Mamberto
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism