2013 Award Winners

The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival team is delighted to announce the outstanding award winners selected for the 12th biennial Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. This year’s entries included 540 films entering more than 900 categories to compete for 23 special awards. More than 100 international judges viewed an incredible 3500+ hours in order to carefully select the 81 finalists, including special consideration. 

The 2013 award winners were selected by a distinguished panel of judges immediately preceding the five-day industry conference, hosted at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park from September 23rd - 27th. They were announced during the Grand Teton Awards Gala on Thursday, September 26th. 

Congratulations to the 2013 Award Winners!

GRAND TETON AWARD
On a River in Ireland
Crossing the Line Production for RTÉ 

CONTENT CATEGORIES:
Best Animal Behavior Program (sponsored by Tangled Bank Studios)
Africa: Kalahari
BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery, BBC Worldwide, France TV & CCTV

Best Wildlife Habitat Program (Sponsored by Disneynature)
On a River in Ireland
Crossing the Line Production for RTÉ

Best Conservation Program (sponsored by The Nature Conservancy)
Battle for the Elephants
National Geographic Television

Best People & Nature Program (sponsored by NHK Japanese Broadcasting)
Kangaroo Dundee, Episode 1
AGB Films for BBC Natural World, BBC Worldwide and Animal Planet 

Best Science and Nature Program (Sponsored by Marco Polo Films)
Operation Iceberg: Birth of a 'Berg
BBC Science & Discovery

Conservation Hero
(Sponsored by SK Films)
Attenborough 60 Years in the Wild: Our Fragile Planet
BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide & NATURE for WNET New York Public Media

PROGRAM CATEGORIES:
Best Limited Series (Sponsored by ORF/Universum)
Africa
BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery, BBC Worldwide & France TV

Best Children’s Program 
How I Became An Elephant
Rattle The Cage Productions & Sea Fox Productions

Best Hosted or Presenter-led Program (Sponsored by NHU Africa)
Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature: Super-bodies
Oxford Scientific Films, Hamster’s Wheel & Terra Mater Factual Studios
Host: Richard Hammond

Best Educational Program (Sponsored by Craighead Berengia South)
Field Chronicles: Chingaza - The Water's Journey
Conservation International

Best Short Program (Sponsored by Wyoming Film Office)
Amazing Grace
Makhulu Productions

Best Short Shorts

The Elephant in the Room
Filmontage Productions & Wildize Foundation

Best Theatrical Program
(Sponsored by Terra Mater Factual Studios)
Disneynature Chimpanzee
Disneynature

Best Immersive 3D/Large Format
(Sponsored by GoPro)
Flight of the Butterflies
SK Films Inc.

Best Immersive Fulldome
Supervolcanoes
Spitz Creative Media, Mirage3D & Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc, in associations with Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Marian Zunz Newcomer (Sponsored by Center for Environmental Filmmaking)
A Year in the Wild: Snowdonia
Jeff Wilson

Best Media Installation (Sponsored by Barco)
Rapid Inventory Theater
Abbott Hall of Conservation, The Field Museum, Chicago

Best Interactive and New Media (Sponsored by BBC Earth)
America the Wild: Kinect Nat Geo TV
Grizzly Creek Films, Microsoft Xbox Studios, Relentless Studios and Nat Geo Wild

CRAFT CATEGORIES:
Best Sound (Sponsored by Dolby Laboratories)
Disneynature Chimpanzee
Disneynature
Sound Supervisor: Kate Hopkins
Sound Designer: Tim Owens
Production Mixers: Kristin Mosher and Edward Anderson
Re-Recording Mixers: Andrew Wilson and Matthew Gough

Best Cinematography (Sponsored by National Geographic WILD & National Geographic Television)

Frozen Planet: Winter
A BBC Natural History Unit, Discovery Channel, Antena 3 Television S.A., ZDF, SKAI, Open University in association
with Discovery Canada 
Cinematography: Frozen Planet Camera Team

Best Editing (Sponsored by Sony Electronics)
On a River in Ireland
Crossing the Line Production for RTÉ
Editor: Emer Reynolds

Best Original Musical Score
Penguins - Spy in the Huddle: The Journey
John Downer Productions
Composer: Will Gregory

Best Writing (Sponsored by Absolute Travel)
Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero: Wallace in the Spice Islands
BBC Natural History Unit, Glassbox Productions, BBC Worldwide & Science Channel: Discovery Communications
Writer: Bill Bailey

Special Consideration 
Earth Flight: North America 
John Downer Productions

The Last Ocean
Fisheye Films