ABS Film Committee
Film Awards
Title | Award | Year | Film Maker |
The Message of the Lyrebird | Commercial | 2022 | Mark Pearce |
Wild Horses - A Tale from the Puszta | Commercial | 2021 | Zoltan Torok |
Wings & Wetlands – A Story of Migration | Non-Commercial | 2020 | Raghunath Belur & Sugandhi Gadadhar |
Mt. Suswa – Life in a Volcano | Commercial | 2020 | Oliver Goetzl |
Power of Play | Commercial | 2019 | Erin Oakes |
Now or Never | Non-Commercial | 2019 | Matt Senior |
White Wolves – Ghosts of the Artic | Commercial | 2018 | Oliver Goetzl |
The Ice Whale: Dephinapterus leucas | Non-Commercial | 2018 | Michael Noonan |
Person of the Forest | Non-Commercial | 2017 | Melissa Lesh |
Lemming – The Little Giant of the North | Commercial | 2017 | Zoltan Török |
Discovering Animal Behavior | Non-Commercial | 2016 | Alberto Redondo |
Everglades: A Watery Wilderness | Commercial | 2016 | directed by Zoltan Török |
The Bearded Capuchin Monkeys of Fazenda Boa Vista | Non-Commercial | 2015 | Elisabetta Visalberghi & Alessandro Albani |
Wild Australia - Desert of the Red Kangaroo | Commercial | 2015 | by Jens Westphalen & Thoralf Grospitz |
The Backyard Jungle | Commercial | 2014 | Jan Haft |
Badge of Status | Non-Commercial | 2014 | Cody Dey |
Ordinary, Extraordinary Junco | Non-Commercial | 2013 | Jonathan Atwell (Director) |
Battle of the Sexes: Evolution in Action | Non-Commercial | 2011 | Nathan Dappen (Director) |
Signals for Survival | Non-Commercial | 2010 | Marc Dantzker and David Brown (Producers) |
The Carrizo Plain | Non-Commercial | 2009 | Vince Franke and Daniel Rosenberg (Producers) |
The World of Weddell Seals | Non-Commercial | 2008 | Jesse Purdy and Randall Davis (Producers) |
NUTS about capuchins | Non-Commercial | 2007 | Elisabetta Visalberghi (Produder) |
Big World of Insects, Spiders & Bugs: Bees - Social or Solitary | Non-Commercial | 2006 | New Dimensions Media and France Animation |
Walking with Ghosts | Non-Commercial | 2005 | Carolyn Underwood and Michael Allder, Bullfrog Films |
All the Trappings | Non-Commercial | 2004 | Bao Productions, Rosie Koch, and Stan Braude (Producers), Rosie Koch (Director) |
Learning to Sea | Non-Commercial | 2003 | Ziggy Livnat (Producer) |
Mafiís Glide | Non-Commercial | 2002 | Manu Esteve |
Mimicry, Sleep and Sex: The Natural History of a Micropezid Fly | Non-Commercial | 2001 | Patricia Ortiz (Producer) |
Field Work in Meru ‘99 or In the Name of the Naked Mole Rat | Non-Commercial | 2000 | Rosie Koch |
The Reproductive Behavior of the Rainbow Cichlid, Herotilapia multispinosa | Non-Commercial | 1997 | Gary Quick |
The Western American Crow | Non-Commercial | 1995 | Robert Dickson and George Bartholomew (Producers), U California Center for Media and Independent Learning |
Proceptivity Patterns in Captive Lowland Gorillas, Orangutangs, and Celebes Macaques | Non-Commercial | 1994 | Shirley Davis |
A Wood Bison Summer | Non-Commercial | 1993 | Petr E. Komers |
A Place for Whooping Cranes | Non-Commercial | 1992 | Dave Erickson, Ootek Productions |
Chameleons | Non-Commercial | 1991 | Thomas Madsen and Monika Osterkamp |
Wildlife in the Midlands | Non-Commercial | 1990 | Robert Horton (Producer) |
Social Behavior of the Red Jungle Fowl | Non-Commercial | 1989 | Nicholas and Elsie Collias |
Raising Crane | Non-Commercial | 1988 | David Erickson (Producers), Ootek Productions |
Whitecoat | Non-Commercial | 1987 | Norman Lightfoot |
Platte, River of Life | Non-Commercial | 1986 | Tom Mangelson |
The Guanaco of Patagonia | Non-Commercial | 1985 | William Franklin |
A Strategy for Survival. the Monarch Butterfly | Non-Commercial | 1984 | Lincoln Brower |
Wild Scandanavia: Norway | Commercial | 2013 | Jan Haft ( Director) |
Jungle Book Bear | Commercial | 2012 | Oliver Goetzl (Director) |
none | Non-Commercial and Commercial | 1996, 1998, 1999, 2008, 2009, and 2012 | |
Wild Scandinavia | Commercial | 2011 | Oliver Goetzl (Director) |
The Urals (Wild Russia Series - Part II) | Commercial | 2010 | Oliver Goetzl and Ivo Nörenberg (Producers) |
Seasons of the Otter | Commercial | 2007 | Dale Johnson and Bob Landis (Producers) |
Wolverines: Hyenas of the North | Commercial | 2006 | Oliver Goetzl and Ivo Nörenberg (Producers), Gulo Film Productions |
Elephas maximus: The Biology and Conservation of the Asian Elephant | Commercial | 2005 | Michael Noonan (Director/Producer), Nathan Johnson (Editor) |
Silhouettes of the Desert | Commercial | 2004 | David Curl (Producer/Director) |
Land of the Anaconda | Commercial | 2003 | Jesus Rivas (Producers), National Geographic Television |
Baltic Secrets: The Invincible Wolf | Commercial | 2002 | Nick Upton (Producer), Green Umbrella Ltd. |
Mzima: Haunt of the Riverhorse | Commercial | 2001 | Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone, Survival Anglia |
The Tale of the Tides: The Hyaena and the Mudskipper | Commercial | 2000 | Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone (Producers and Camera), Survival Anglia/National Geographic |
The Science of Whales | Commercial | 1999 | Bo Boudart, Elizabeth O'Connell (Producers), Bo Boudart and Louis Prezelin (Camera), Wonder Visions |
Africa's Forgotten Elephants | Commercial | 1998 | Brian Leith (Producer), Martyn Colheck and Mike Fox (Camera), Scorer Assocation/BBC-WNET |
Wolves of the Air | Commercial | 1997 | Michael W. Richards (Producer), National Geographic Television |
The New Chimpanzees | Commercial | 1996 | Catherine McConnell and Cynthia Moses (Producers), Neil Retti (Camera), National Geographic Television |
For Queen and Colony | Commercial | 1995 | Steve Nicholls (Producer), Kevin Flay (Photographer), BBC Natural History Unit |
The Big Freeze | Commercial | 1994 | Alastair Fothergill (Producer), BBC Films |
Wildlife on One - Too Close for Comfort | Commercial | 1993 | Alastair Fothergill (Producer), Michael W. Richards (Camera) |
Life on the Edge | Commercial | 1992 | Joel Bennett and Luisa Stoughton, New Dimension Media |
Sunlight and Shadows: The Dappled Cats | Commercial | 1991 | Alan Root, Survival Anglia |
The Bee Team | Commercial | 1990 | Alistair Fothergill (Producer), Simon King (Photographer) |
Queen of the Beasts | Commercial | 1989 | Alan Root (Writer and Producer), Richard Matthews (camera), Survival Anglia |
The Secret Leopard | Commercial | 1988 | Richard Matthews (Producer), Zebra Films, and distributed by Primetime Entertainment, Inc. |
Kopjies, Islands in a Sea of Grass | Commercial | 1987 | Alan Root, Survival Anglia, LTD |
Kitum, Elephant Cave | Commercial | 1986 | produced by Nature, WNET 13 New York |
Castles of Clay | Commercial | 1985 | Alan and Joan Roo, Benchmark Films |
Aliens from Inner Space | Commercial | 1984 | Roger Hanlon, Keenan Smart (Producer), BBC Natural History Unit |