'' How to Survive a Plague '' received awards for best documentary of 2012 from the Gotham Independent Film Awards and from the Boston Society of Film Critics . The Independent Spirit Awards nominated it for Best Documentary . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in the 85th Academy Awards . The film also won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary and a Peabody Award . It was nominated for a Directors Guild Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival . Critic A. O. Scott of '' The New York Times '' named '' How to Survive a Plague '' one of the best five documentaries of 2012 . Fellow '' New York Times '' critic Stephen Holden called the documentary the eighth best film of 2012 . It also won Documentary of the Year at Attitude magazine 's Attitude Awards 2013
85th Academy Awards
85th Academy Awards
How to Survive a Plague