“Bully,” “Interrupters,” “Never Sorry” win duPont-Columbia Awards

January 23, 2013 by Adam Benzine

Steve James’s The Interrupters (pictured), Lee Hirsch’s Bully and Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry are among the feature docs to win Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards this year.

The awards – one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – are given out annually by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Klayman’s Never Sorry was praised as “an intimate and compelling documentary about an extraordinary man on the cusp of history in China,” while Bully was billed as “a vivid portrait of what it is like to grow up as an underdog in America today.”

Meanwhile, the school praised The Interrupters as “remarkable documentary journalism that explained urban violence and its causes, effects and solutions.”

The full list of duPont-Columbia winners and honorees can be found here.

Previous feature docs to have been honored with the duPont-Columbia prize include The English Surgeon, Hell and Back Again and The Trials of Darryl Hunt.

Tags: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards, Alison Klayman, Bully, Columbia University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Lee Hirsch, Steve James, The Interrupters