The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is pleased to announce the selection of this year’s Film Competition Award winners. Films were selected from over 600 entries by a committee including Allison Argo, Thom Beers, Tim Cowling, Tom Perlmutter, and Alan Root. Winners of the Festival Film Competition are:

Grand Teton (Best of Festival) Sponsored by Panasonic Broadcast
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action The Katahdin Foundation

Best Achievement in Sound Sponsored by Dolby Laboratories
Earthling Wolfgang Bayer Productions, EarthNative Films, Sound Recordist: Dustin Vandenbroeke; Editing/Mixing: DBC Sound

Best Animal Behavior Sponsored by World Wildlife Fund
Capuchins – The Monkey Puzzle BBC Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide, Animal Planet, Discovery Communications

Best CGI/Animation Award
British Isles, A Natural History: Ice Age BBC Natural History Unit

Best Children’s Program
Earthling Wolfgang Bayer Productions, EarthNative Films

Best Cinematography Award Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company
Natural World: Mississippi – Tales of the Last River Rat @GB Films Ltd., BBC, Discovery Channel; Cinematography: Neil Rettig

Best Earth Sciences Program Sponsored by American Geological Institute
Hot Rocks – Geology of Civilization: Risky Rocks The Open University, BBC4, The Science Channel

Best Editing Sponsored by LaserPacific Media Corporation
Roar: Lions of the Kalahari Tim Liversedge Productions, National Geographic, Editors: Lori Petersen Waite, Mark Fletcher

Best Environmental Program Sponsored by Conservation International
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action The Katahdin Foundation

Best Limited Series
Europe – A Natural History BBC, ORF, ZDF

Best Musical Score
March of the Penguins Bonne Pioche, National Geographic Feature Films, Warner, Independent Pictures,Composer: Alex Wurman

Best Newcomer Award Sponsored by American University’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking
The Last Goosekeeper Henrik Helsgaun

Best Nonbroadcast Program
Eagle Odyssey RSPB Film Unit

Best People & Animals Program Sponsored by National Geographic
Strange Days on Planet Earth: Predators National Geographic Television and Film, Vulcan Productions, Sea Studios Foundation

Best Short Program, Devil's Teeth Roger Teich

Best Theatrical Program Sponsored by Sony Electronics
March of the Penguins Bonne Pioche, National Geographic Feature Films, Warner Independent Pictures

Best Web Presentation

NATURE: Deep Jungle Nature/WNET, Granada Wild, National Geographic Channel International, France 5

Best Writing Sponsored by Non-Fiction Exchange
March of the Penguins Bonne Pioche, National Geographic Feature Films, Warner Independent Pictures, Based on the Screenplay by Luc Jacquet & Michel Fessler, Narration by Jordan Roberts

Special Jury Prize
NATURE: The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly Nature/WNET, Moore & Moore Productions
Ants - Nature’s Secret Power Adi Mayer Films, ORF, Docstar, WDR