Submissions for the Panda Awards will open in January 2022.
Panda Award 2020 Winners announced
DOLBY CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
Our Planet: One Planet
Silverback Films with WWF for Netflix
Photography by Jamie McPherson, Roger Horrocks, John Aitchison, Paul Stewart, Gavin Thurston, Warwick Sloss, Mateo Willis, Sophie Darlington, Matt Aeberhard
United Kingdom
UWE EDITING AWARD
Disneynature Penguins
Silverback films for Disneynature
Editor: Andy Netley
United Kingdom
ICON FILMS EMERGING TALENT AWARD
Andrés Sehinkman, Jonathan Barg, Leandro Vital, Armin Marchesini Weihmuller and Ailín Salas for the film Clorofilia
Planta Alta
Argentina
AUDIO NETWORK MUSIC AWARD
Sea of Shadows
Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Appian Way, Malaika Pictures, The Wild Lens Collective for National Geographic Documentary Films
Music by: H. Scott Salinas
Austria
AURUM PHOTO STORY AWARD
Pangolins in Crisis by Brent Stirton
South Africa
ORF PRODUCTION TEAM AWARD
Night on Earth: Dusk till Dawn
Plimsoll Productions for Netflix
United Kingdom
DOCLIGHTS / NDR NATURFILM PRODUCER DIRECTOR AWARD
Richard Ladkani, Walter Köhler and Wolfgang Knöpfler for the film Sea of Shadows
Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Appian Way, Malaika Pictures, The Wild Lens Collective for National Geographic Documentary Films
Austria
NHK SCRIPTED NARRATIVE AWARD
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Silverback Films and WWF for Netflix
Script by: David Attenborough with Jonnie Hughes
United Kingdom
NAT GEO WILD SERIES AWARD
Seven Worlds, One Planet
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, France Télévisions, ZDF, Tencent Penguin Pictures and China Media Group CCTV9
United Kingdom
H2O: The Molecule that Made Us
Passion Planet Ltd and WGBH Boston for PBS
United Kingdom
DOLBY SOUND AWARD
The Flood
Icon Films in association with Natural History Film Unit Botswana for National Geographic
Sound by: Richard Lambert, Roy Noy
United Kingdom
PANDA IN THE POCKET AWARD
Dynasties: Chimpanzee
BBC Studios NHU, BBC America, Tencent, France Télévisions and CCTV9
Directed by: Rosie Thomas
United Kingdom
GOLDEN PANDA AWARD
Craig Foster, Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed for the film My Octopus Teacher
Sea Change Project and Off the Fence; A Netflix Original Production
South Africa
Panda Award 2020 Nominees
DOLBY CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
My Octopus Teacher
Sea Change Project and Off the Fence; A Netflix Original Production
Underwater photography by: Roger Horrocks, Craig Foster
Aerials: Tom Foster
Topside photography: Warren Smart
Additional photography: Pippa Ehrlich, Dave Aenmae
South Africa
Dynasties: Chimpanzee
BBC Studios NHU, BBC America, Tencent, France Télévisions and CCTV9
Photography by: John Brown, Mark MacEwen
United Kingdom
UWE EDITING AWARD
Sea of Shadows
Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Appian Way, Malaika Pictures, The Wild Lens Collective for National Geographic Documentary Films
Editors: Georg Michael Fischer & Verena Schönauer
Austria
Wild Cuba: A Caribbean Journey
Crossing the Line Productions for ORF, BBC, RTÉ, France Télévisions, WNET Thirteen, PBS, ORF Enterprises
Editor: Jamie Fitzpatrick
Ireland
ICON FILMS EMERGING TALENT AWARD
George Pretty for the film Life on the Rocks
The National Film & Television School
United Kingdom
Malaika Vaz and Nitye Sood for the film Peng Yu Sai
Untamed Planet
India
AUDIO NETWORK MUSIC AWARD
Disneynature Penguins
Silverback Films for Disneynature
Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams
United Kingdom
Dancing with the Birds
Silverback Films for Netflix
Music by: David Mitcham
United Kingdom
AURUM PHOTO STORY AWARD
Masked Monkeys by Joan de la Malla
Spain
Dinner is served by Audun Rikardsen
Norway
ORF PRODUCTION TEAM AWARD
Earth from Space: A New Perspective
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, PBS and The Open University
United Kingdom
Lost Kings of Bioko
GULO Film Productions and Doclights GmbH / NDR Naturfilm for NDR, WDR, ARTE, ORF, SVT, Smithsonian Channel
Germany
DOCLIGHTS / NDR NATURFILM PRODUCER DIRECTOR AWARD
Craig Foster, Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed for the film My Octopus Teacher
Sea Change Project and Off the Fence; A Netflix Original Production
South Africa
Bonné de Bod and Susan Scott for the film STROOP – Journey into the Rhino Horn War
SDBFilms
South Africa
NHK SCRIPTED NARRATIVE AWARD
H2O: The Molecule That Made Us
Passion Planet Ltd and WGBH Boston for PBS
Script by: Nicolas Brown, Alex Tate
United Kingdom
Savage Kingdom
Icon Films in association with Natural History Film Unit Botswana for National Geographic
Script by: Andy Mitchell
United Kingdom
NAT GEO WILD SERIES AWARD
Dynasties
BBC Studios NHU, BBC America, Tencent, France Télévisions and CCTV9
United Kingdom
DOLBY SOUND AWARD
Sea of Shadows
Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Appian Way, Malaika Pictures, The Wild Lens Collective for National Geographic Documentary Films
Sound by: Bernhard Zorzi, Michael Plöderl, Bernd Dormayer, Roland Winkler, Bernd Mazagg
Austria
Wild Shetland
Maramedia Ltd for BBC Scotland distributed by ORF E
Sound by: Kate Hopkins, Owen Shirley & Mitch Dorf, Ben Peace, Wounded Buffalo
United Kingdom