The International Documentary Association also unveiled the nominations for best short and its creative recognition award winners.

The IDA Documentary Awards on Wednesday unveiled its nominees in the categories of best feature and best short and the recipients of its creative recognition awards.

The best feature nominees are City of Ghosts, L.A. 92, Strong Island, Dina and Faces Places. The winners in that category and the best short category are decided by International Documentary Association members. L.A. 92 also scored a nomination in the ABC News VideoSource award category, where it is competing against CNN Films' Elian, Netflix's Icarus and Blood on the Mountain (co-distributed by Virgil Films) and Kino Lorber's Obit.

“The diverse array of films nominated this year underscore the vibrancy and elasticity of documentary form,” IDA executive director Simon Kilmurry said in a statement. “These films address the most urgent contemporary global matters — and the most intimate emotional territory. All of them demonstrate the courage and ingenuity of nonfiction media makers.”

In terms of the creative recognition award winners, Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva won for best cinematography for his work on Machines; Bill Morrison won for best editing for his work on Dawson City: Frozen Time; Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin won for best music for their original score for Brimstone and Glory; and Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira and Gabriel Molera won for best writing for Donkeyote.

The IDA also will honor director Marcel Mettelsiefen's Watani: My Homeland with the Pare Lorentz Award, with Joe Berlinger's Intent to Destroy receiving a special mention in that category.

The best limited series nominees are HBO's The Defiant Ones; Netflix's The Keepers; Ken Burns' The Vietnam War for PBS; Spike's Time: The Kalief Browder Story, executive produced by Jay-Z; and Daughters of Destiny.

The best episodic series nominees are CNN's Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown; Netflix's Chef's Table; A&E's Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath; National Geographic's Mars; and BBC America's Planet Earth II.

The 33rd annual IDA Awards will take place Saturday, Dec. 9, at Los Angeles' Paramount Theatre.

A full list of nominees follows.

• Pare Lorentz Award

  Watani: My Homeland
  (Recipient)

  Director: Marcel Mettelsiefen

  Intent to Destroy
  (Special Mention)

  Director: Joe Berlinger

• ABC News VideoSource Award

  Blood On The Mountain
  
Directors: Mari-Lynn Evans and Jordan Freeman
  
Virgil Films/Netflix

  
Elian
  

Directors: Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell
  

Gravitas Ventures, CNN Films

  Icarus

  
Director: Bryan Fogel
  

Netflix

  
LA 92
  

Directors: Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin
  

National Geographic

  
Obit.
  

Director: Vanessa Gould

  
Kino Lorber

• Best Curated Series

  American Experience
  
Executive Producer: Mark Samels
  
PBS

  
Dokumania
  

Executive Producer: Anders Bruus

  
DR

  
Independent Lens
  

Executive Producers: Lois Vossen and Sally Jo Fifer
  

PBS

  
POV

  
Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White

  PBS

  
REEL SOUTH

  
Executive Producers: Rachel Raney and Amy Shumaker
  

UNC-TV, South Carolina ETV, NETA and WORLD
• Best Limited Series

  Daughters of Destiny
  
Executive Producer: Vanessa Roth

  Netflix

  The Defiant Ones
  
Executive Producers: Allen Hughes, Doug Pray, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Gene Kirkwood, and Jerry Longarzo

  HBO

  The Keepers
  
Executive Producers: Ryan White and Jessica Hargrave
  
Netflix

  The Vietnam War
  
Executive Producer: Ken Burns

  PBS/WETA

  TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
  
Executive Producers: Jenner Furst, Nick Sandow, Julia Willoughby Nason, Michael Gasparro, Shawn “JAY Z” Carter, Sharon Levy, Chachi Senior
  
Spike

• Best Episodic Series

  Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
  
Executive Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia and Sandra Zweig

  CNN

  Chef’s Table

  Executive Producers: David Gelb, Matthew Weaver, Brian McGinn, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard and Matthew Hilliard

  Netflix

  Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
  
Executive Producers: Leah Remini, Aaron Saidman, Alex Weresow, Devon-Graham-Hammonds, Elaine Frontain Bryant and Amy Savitsky
  
A&E

  MARS
  
Executive Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Michael Rosenberg, Dave O’Connor, Jon Kamen, Tommy Turtle, David Sirulnick, Jonathan Silberberg, Lorenzo Mieli, Everardo Gout, Justin Wilkes, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner, Robert Palumbo, and David Sirulneck
  
National Geographic

  Planet Earth II

  Executive Producer: Michael Gunton
  
BBC AMERICA/BBC Worldwide

• Best Short Form Series

  Field of Vision

  Executive Producers: Laura Poitras, AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook

  
Field of Vision


  Shorts on Time

  
Executive Producer: Julie Parker Benello

  
Lifetime


  The Guardian documentaries

  
Executive Producers: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton


  The Guardian


  The New York Times Op-Docs

  
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo


  The New York Times


  The Secret Life of Muslims


  Executive Producers: Joshua Seftel and Reza Aslan

  
Vox
• David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award

  Believers

  Director: Ray Whitehouse
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Chomo
  
Director: Maayan Arad
 of National Film and Television School (United Kingdom)

  How To Make A Pearl

  Director: Jason Hanasik
 of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

  Man on Fire

  Director: Joel Fendelman
University of Texas, Austin

  Room 140
  Director: Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz
 oof Stanford University

• Best Feature

  City of Ghosts
  Director/Producer: Matthew Heineman
  Amazon Studios

  Dina
  Directors/Producers: Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles
  The Orchard

  Faces Places
  Directors: Agnès Varda and JR
  Cohen Media Group

  LA 92
  Directors: Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin
  Producers: Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn, Tim Pastore, Matt Renner and Sarah Gibson
  National Geographic

  Strong Island
  Director/Producer: Yance Ford
  Producer Joslyn Barnes
  Netflix

• Best Short

  Edith+Eddie
  Director: Laura Checkoway
  Producer: Thomas Lee Wright
  Kartemquin Films

  The Fight
  Directors/Producers: Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw
  The Guardian

  Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405
  Director/Producer: Frank Stiefel

  Long Shot
  Director: Jacob LaMendola
  Producers: Jacob LaMendola, Mary Beth Minthorn, Milos S. Silber and Todd Wiseman Jr.
  Netflix

  Mr. Connolly Has ALS
  Director/Producer: Dan Habib
  Impact Media Partners

  The Rabbit Hunt Director: Patrick Bresnan
  Producer: Ivete Lucas
  Topic Studios
• Creative Recognition Award Winners

  Best Cinematography
  Machines
  Cinematography by: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva
  Kino Lorber

  Best Editing
  Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Edited by: Bill Morrison
  Kino Lorber

  Best Music
  Brimstone & Glory
  Original Score by: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
  Oscilloscope Laboratories

  Best Writing
  Donkeyote
  Written by: Chico Pereira, Manuel Pereira and Gabriel Molera
  Scottish Documentary Institute