Particle Fever, Cutie among Grierson winners

Particle Fever and Cutie and the Boxer were among the film winners at last night’s Grierson Awards, held in association with Sky Atlantic and Shell.

Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever, about the quest for find the Higgs boson, won the Satusfaction Best Science or Natural History Documentary and was praised as a “stunning piece of work” by the jury, while Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer scooped the Bertha Dochouse Best Cinema Documentary award with the jury calling it a “true gem”.

The big winner on the night was Channel 4 as it took a record eight of the 13 award available, including two wins for Education Yorkshire for Envy Best Documentary Series Award and Radio Times Reader’s Choice Award.

Peter Aker’s Sing Your Heart Out received the Sky Atlantic Best Student Documentary, while former Wall To Wall chief executive Alex Graham was awarded The Grierson Trustee’s Award.

Opening the awards, chairman of The Grierson Trust Lorraine Heggessey said: “Watching this year’s entries is a fabulous reminder of how the documentary is alive and kicking in this digital age – there are funny, uplifting and moving films alongside those that pack a punch and expose the darker underbelly of our society. The richness of the human condition and the complexities of 21st century life are celebrated and scrutinised.”

The Grierson Trust is suported by Sky Atlantic, Shell, Satufaction, The Open University, ITN Source, Envy, Bertha DocHouse, Molinare, Stockroom Archive Management, Nyman Libson Paul, Radio Times, CTVC and Dogwoof.

Full list of winners is as follows:

Particle Fever Mark Levinson for Particle Fever, LLC

The Murder Trial Nick Holt for Windfall Productions

Colin Davis in His Own Words John Bridcut for Crux Productions

Dispatches:  Children on the Frontline Anthony Wonke, Marcel Mettelsiefen for ITN

Our Gay Wedding:  The Musical Production team for Wingspan Productions Ltd

Dispatches: Hunted Ben Steele for Blakeway Productions

Cutie and the Boxer Zachary Heinzerling

Rupert Everett for Love for Sale with Rupert Everett Swan Films

Last Chance School Marc Williamson for Minnow Films

Sing Your Heart Out Peter Akar for National Film and Television School

Educating Yorkshire David Brindley, Grace Reynolds for Twofour Productions

The Iraq War: Regime Change Paul Mitchell, Norma Percy, Charlie Smith for Brook Lapping Productions

Alex Graham

Educating Yorkshire David Brindley, Grace Reynolds for Twofour Productions