The controversial documentary, which followed a man who travelled to Switzerland for assisted suicide, has won an award at the 2012 Grierson British Documentary Awards.
Terry
Pratchett's film Choosing to Die received 1,219 complaints when it
was aired BBC Two on June 13 last year.
Pratchett,
who suffers from Alzheimer's, presented the documentary which featured Peter
Smedley, a 71-year-old man who suffered from motor neurone disease. The
documentary was awarded Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme. The
chairman of the awards jury said it was "beautifully cast and genuinely
revelatory".
The documentary was one of several winners at the event, which was hosted by
artist Grayson Perry, who donned a bright red dress for the ceremony at The
Empire Leicester Square.
The awards were celebrating their 40th year and were set up by the Grierson
Trust in 1972 to commemorate the life and work of world-renowned Scottish
documentary film-maker John Grierson, whose work includes the GPO film Night
Mail.
Fellow Scot Kevin Macdonald, known for films One Day in September, Touching the Void, Marley, and the Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland, was awarded the Grierson's Trustees award. Charlotte Moore, BBC Commissioning Editor of Documentaries said he had made "an outstanding contribution to the art and craft of the British documentary".
Other winners included a Culture Show special on artist Jeremy Deller, Channel 4 school programme Educating Essex came highly commended but the BBC's Protecting Our Children, about adoption, won the Best Documentary category, while the BBC's natural history show Frozen Planet lost out to After Life: The Strange Science of Decay in the science strand.
A highlights show of the awards will air on Sky Arts 2 on Monday 12 November at 8.00pm
Fellow Scot Kevin Macdonald, known for films One Day in September, Touching the Void, Marley, and the Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland, was awarded the Grierson's Trustees award. Charlotte Moore, BBC Commissioning Editor of Documentaries said he had made "an outstanding contribution to the art and craft of the British documentary".
Other winners included a Culture Show special on artist Jeremy Deller, Channel 4 school programme Educating Essex came highly commended but the BBC's Protecting Our Children, about adoption, won the Best Documentary category, while the BBC's natural history show Frozen Planet lost out to After Life: The Strange Science of Decay in the science strand.
A highlights show of the awards will air on Sky Arts 2 on Monday 12 November at 8.00pm
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