The Grierson Awards 2006

Friday 17th November 2006 - Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road, London

Hosted by Rageh Omaar

Please see below for winners highlighted in red

BBC Four will be transmitting the awards ceremony on Saturday 18th November at 22:10

The nominations for the 2006 Grierson Awards have been agreed by nine distinguished jury panels which included Nick Broomfield, Shami Chackrabarti Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Derek Malcolm, Grayson Perry, Michael Portillo, Esther Rantzen, Juliet Stevenson, Janet Suzman, Sir Charles Wheeler and Will Wyatt.  The winners will be announced at the Grierson Awards ceremony which will take place at the Royal Geographical Society, London on Friday, 17 November 2006 and will be hosted Rageh Omaar.

BEST DOCUMENTARY ON A CONTEMPORARY ISSUE
Asylum (Peter Gordon for BBC) BBC Four
Gaza: The Fight for Israel (Monica Garnsey for Raw TV Ltd & Israel Goldvicht Productions) Channel 4
Women on the Edge: The Truth About Styal Prison (Rachel Coughlan for BBC) BBC Two
A World Without Water (Brian Woods for True Vision Productions) Channel 4 
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY ON THE ARTS
Imagine:  Andy Warhol Denied (Chris Rodley for BBC) BBC One
The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (Paul Yule for Berwick Universal Pictures) BBC Four
Sinatra:  Dark Star (Christopher Olgiati for Paladin Invision) BBC One
Take That For The Record (David Notman-Watt for talkbackTHAMES in association with Syco TV) ITV 1

BEST HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY
Elusive Peace - Israel and the Arabs (Mark Anderson and Norma Percy for Brook Lapping Productions) BBC Two
How Vietnam Was Lost (Two Days In October) (Robert Kenner for Robert Kenner films) BBC One
Timewatch:  Pol Pot - Journey to the Killing Fields (Andrew Williams for BBC) BBC Two
Tory! Tory! Tory!  (Don Jordan for Mentorn) BBC Four

BEST DOCUMENTARY ON SCIENCE OR THE NATURAL WORLD
Horizon:  Ghost in your Genes (Nigel Paterson for BBC) BBC Two
Life in the Undergrowth:  Invasion of the Land (Peter Bassett for BBC) BBC One
Monkey Love (Brian Henry Martin for Doubleband Films) More4
The Natural World:  The Queen of Trees (Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble for Flat Dog Productions) BBC Two

FRONTIER POST MOST ENTERTAINING DOCUMENTARY
Censored At The Seaside: The Saucy Postcards of Donald McGill (Steve Webb for Firefly Productions) BBC Two
Live 8: Programme One: Twenty Years Ago Today (Anna Davies for Brook Lapping Productions) BBC One
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares:  Prog 3 - Momma Cherri’s (Christine Hall  for Optomen Television) Channel 4
Taxidermy: Stuff The World (Morgan Matthews for Century Films) BBC Two

BEST DRAMA DOCUMENTARY
Elizabeth David – A Life in Recipes (James Kent for Wall to Wall) BBC Two
Kenneth Williams:  Fantabulosa!  (Andy De Emmony for BBC) BBC Four
Hiroshima (Paul Wilmshurst for BBC) BBC One
The Year London Blew Up (Edmund Coulthard and Mark Hayhurst for Blast Films) Channel 4

BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES
49 Up (Michael Apted for Granada Television) ITV 1
Cult of the Suicide Bomber (David Batty and Kevin Toolis for Many Rivers Productions) Channel 4
My Life as a Child (Nicola Gibson and Dermot Caulfield for BBC) BBC Two
Russian Godfathers (Patrick Forbes for Oxford Film & Television) BBC Two

UK FILM COUNCIL BEST CINEMA DOCUMENTARY
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room  (Alex Gibney for HD Net Films)
The Road to Guantanamo (Michael Winterbottom and Matt Whitecross for Revolution Films) Channel 4
Storyville:  Darwin’s Nightmare (Hubert Sauper for Mille et Une, Coop 99 & Saga Film) BBC Four
Unknown White Male (Rupert Murray for Spectre Broadcast Ltd) More4

BLOOMBERG BEST NEWCOMER AWARD
Astrid Bussink for Angelmakers
Clare Richards for Disabled and Looking for Love
Vaughan Pilikian for Hammer and Flame
Nicki Stoker for Show Me the Money
Sadik Ahmed for Tanju Miah
 
TRUSTEES’ AWARD
The Grierson Trust will also present the Trustees’ Award, which recognises an outstanding contribution to the art or craft of the Documentary.  The award will be presented to Mike Salisbury, producer of many landmark series for the BBC Natural History Unit, including Life of Mammals and Life in the Undergrowth.