Director Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary “The Look of Silence” nabbed the best feature award at the IDA Documentary Awards on Saturday night. The film, which is also on the shortlist of 15 feature documentaries that are vying for an Oscar nomination, follows Oppenheimer’s Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary “The Act of Killing” and revisits survivors of the 1965 genocide in Indonesia as well as the murders who killed their relatives. The new doc marked a dangerous return for Oppenheimer to the country where he feared for his safety, but resulted in his winning the IDA’s top prize.

    The International Documentary Association’s event, which recognizes the best of non-fiction filmmaking and programming, was held at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles and hosted by Grammy-nominated comedian Tig Notaro. It honored Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman’s “Last Day of Freedom” with its best short award. “Last Day” has also been shortlisted for the Academy’s best documentary short award.

    Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk presented the pioneer award to Ted Sarandos, chief content officer for Netflix, which has become a home to documentary features including “What Happened to Miss Simone?” and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom,” which are both on the Academy’s current shortlist.

    Director Kathryn Bigelow awarded the courage under fire honor to filmmaker Matthew Heineman, director of the documentary “Cartel Land,” which looks at efforts to combat drug dealers on the U.S./Mexico border. Danny Glover was also on hand to honor Tony Tabatznik and the Bertha Foundation with the amicus award for supporting nonfiction media.

    The IDA’s Career Achievement Award was presented to Gordon Quinn, founder and artistic director of Chicago-based Kartemquin Films. And the Pare Lorentz award, given to filmmaking that focuses on environmental and social issues, was presented to Jerry Rothwell’s “How to Change the World.”

    Creative recognition awards were given to “The Russian Woodpecker” for its cinematography by Artem Ryzhykov, “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” for its editing by Joe Beshenkovsky, “Brett Morgen, Best of Enemies” for its score by Jonathan Kirkscey and “Listen to Me Marlon” for its screenplay by Steven Riley and co-writer Peter Ettedgui.

    (SD-Agencies)