Slava Leontyev Biography

Awards

• 2024Jury Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Golden Athena-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2024AACTA Award-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2024ASSG Award-Best Sound for a Documentary: winner
• 2024Jury Special Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Checkpoints Award-Best Human Rights Documentary: nominated
• 2024Best Feature Documentary-Best Film: nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Feature Length Film: winner
• 2024Grand Jury Prize-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Jury Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Best Cinematography-Best Cinematography: winner
• 2024Best Documentary-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Best International Documentary-Best International Documentary: nominated
• 2024David Ponce Award - Best of the Festival-Best of the Fest: winner
• 2024Honorable Mention-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Audience Choice Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Award-: nominated
• 2024Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s): nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Best International Feature: winner
• 2024Grand Jury Prize-Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a Film of Conflict and Resolution-Best Film: nominated
• 2024Golden Starfish Award-Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2024Grand Prize-Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Best International Documentary-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Top 20 Audience Favorites: nominated
• 2024Matt DeCample Audience Choice Award-Best Feature: winner
• 2024Právo Audience Award-: nominated
• 2024Audience Choice Award-Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Gamble-Paison Prize-Best International Feature: winner
• 2024VTeddy Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Amnesty International Poland Award-: nominated
• 2024Special Jury Prize - Documentary Competition-Directing: winner
• 2024Best Documentary-: nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Grand Jury Prize-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2024Nashville PBS Human Spirit Award-: winner
• 2024Best Documentary Feature-: winner
• 2024Special Jury Award-Exceptional Merit Documentary: winner
• 2024Jim Ewing New Directors Award-Jim Ewing Young Director Award: winner
• 2024Audience Award-Documentary: winner
• 2024Jury Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Golden Gate Award-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Jury Prize-Jury Special Mention: winner
• 2024Golden Space Needle Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Documentary Competition Award-: nominated
• 2024Joe Pollack and Joe Williams Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Audience Choice Award-Best International Feature: winner
• 2024Bronze Horse-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Grand Jury Prize-Documentary: winner
• 2024GIO Audience Award-Honorable Mention: winner
• 2024New Directors Competition-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2024Special Jury Prize-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Ukrainian Film Critics Award "Kinokolo"-Discovery of the Year: nominated
• 2024Audience Award-Best of Fest: winner
• 2024Festival Director's Choice Award-Fortitude in Filmmaking: winner
• 2024Audience Award-Best Documentary Feature: winner
• 2024Best Documentary Feature-Jury Honorable Mention: winner
• 2024Leon Gast Award-Best Feature Documentary: winner
• 2025Oscar-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2025duPont-Columbia Award-Silver Baton: winner
• 2025AACTA Award-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2025Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize-: winner
• 2025Cinema for Peace Award-Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year: nominated
• 2025DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: winner