Awards & Winners

Danfung Dennis

Danfung Dennis is a still photographer and documentary film maker. His images have been published in Newsweek, TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Le Figaro Magazine, Financial Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Der Spiegel, and The Wall Street Journal. He won the Bayeux-Calvados Award For War Correspondents, in 2010 and was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. He was also chosen as one of the 30 New and Emerging Photographers by Photo District News Magazine. He photographed and directed his first feature length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won both the World Cinema Jury Award and the World Cinema Cinematography Award. The film was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award for best feature documentary. Danfung Dennis is currently the CEO and Founder of Condition One, a video software company.

Awards by Danfung Dennis

Check all the awards nominated and won by Danfung Dennis.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary Independent Lens
Hell and Back Again

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award Hell and Back Again

2011


Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary
Honored for : Hell and Back Again
Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary Filmmaking
Honored for : Hell and Back Again

Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary Hell and Back Again
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Hell and Back Again