'' An Inconvenient Truth '' has received many different awards worldwide . The film won the 2006 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song for Melissa Etheridge 's " I Need to Wake Up " . It is the first documentary to win 2 Oscars and the first to win a best original song Oscar . After winning the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature , the Oscar was awarded to director Guggenheim , who asked Gore to join him and other members of the crew on stage . Gore then gave a brief speech , saying : For Gore 's wide-reaching efforts to draw the world 's attention to the dangers of global warming which is centerpieced in the film , Al Gore , along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize . Gore also received the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2007 for international cooperation . The related album , which featured the voices of Beau Bridges , Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood , also won Best Spoken Word Album at the 51st Grammy Awards
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