Laura Poitras’ Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour took the top honor, the best feature award, at the IDA Documentary Awards on Friday, Dec 5 night, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The International Documentary Association’s event, held at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, also honored Robert Redford with the career achievement award, and gave Tashi and the Monk, directed by Johnny Burke and Andrew Hinton, two honors: best short and the Pare Lorentz Award.

Citizenfour follows a series of in-person meetings between Poitras and the former CIA technical assistant turned whistleblower Snowden, who reached out to Poitras directly when she was working on a piece about surveillance in the post-9/11 era. The film first premiered at the New York Film Festival in October.

Tashi and the Monk is a story of love and redemption told through the relationship of Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok and his 5-year-old charge Tashi Drolma.

Three new series awards were also unveiled at the event with the OWN program Our America With Lisa Ling receiving the IDA’s inaugural best episodic series award; NPR’s multiplatform series Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt receiving the first best short-form series award; and ITVS’ doc showcase Independent Lens receiving the new curated series award. The best limited series honor went to Showtime’s Time of Death.

Hosted by writer and comedienne Carol Leifer, the IDA Documentary Awards also honored Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, founders of World of Wonder Productions, with IDA’s pioneer award. Monica Lewinsky, the subject of their film Monica in Black and White, presented the award to the directors. Rithy Panh, the co-founder of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the director of Oscar-nominated film The Missing Picture, received the preservation and scholarship award.