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

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