The Critics Choice
Documentary Awards nominating committees recognized additional female - directed films with nominations in various categories.
There is a change in the awards categories this year, explained by David Freedman, Chairperson, Critics» Choice
Documentary Awards Nominating Committees.
Not exact matches
There are Harvard M.B.A.'s, former investment bankers, and even a guy
nominated for a 2012 Academy
Award (best
documentary).
Directing the series is Joe Berlinger, the Academy
Award -
nominated director of the true - crime
documentary «Paradise Lost.»
In 2010, the film was
nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Feature
Documentary and helped bring the world's attention to the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking.
During his research, Vasi zeroed in on two time periods for his data collection: June 2010, when Gasland was released on HBO and February 2011, when the
documentary was
nominated for an Academy
Award.
Joining us is Academy
Award nominated documentary film maker, Jim Burroughs, and his cardiologist Dr. Shephal Doshi of Providence Saint John's Health Center to talk about how medical advancements are providing ways to help afib patients stay active.
The 2010 Academy
award nominated documentary «Gasland» and its 2013 sequel («Gasland 2») put a spotlight on a controversial method of gas and oil drilling that poses a threat to the environment and human health, particularly drinking water sources.
Summary: The Look of Silence is the companion piece to Oppenheimer's 2014 Academy
Award ® -
nominated documentary The Act of Killing, and explores the Indonesian genocide and its terrifying legacy from the victim's point of view, following one man on his search for the truth as he confronts his brother's killers.
Nominated for the Best
Documentary Academy
Award, The Restless Conscience documents a little - known story of the Holocaust - the resistance to Hitler within Nazi Germany - illuminating crucial issues of conscience and will.
This
documentary was
nominated for an Emmy and an Academy
Award and won a Peabody
Award and the NAACP Image
Award.
Eliza Hittman and the BEACH RATS team,
nominated yesterday for TWO 2018 Independent Spirit
Awards, including a rare nomination for a woman cinematographer; Greta Gerwig and the LADY BIRD team,
nominated for FOUR 2018 Independent Spirit
Awards; Ingrid Jungermann and the WOMEN WHO KILL team; Emily V. Gordon and THE BIG SICK team,
nominated for TWO 2018 Independent Spirit
Awards; Agnès Varda and FACES PLACES team,
nominated in Best
Documentary category; Lana Wilson and THE DEPARTURE team, nominated in the Best Documentary category; Chloé Zhao and THE RIDER team, nominated for FOUR 2018 Independent Spirit Awards; Ramona Diaz, nominated for her documentary
Documentary category; Lana Wilson and THE DEPARTURE team,
nominated in the Best
Documentary category; Chloé Zhao and THE RIDER team, nominated for FOUR 2018 Independent Spirit Awards; Ramona Diaz, nominated for her documentary
Documentary category; Chloé Zhao and THE RIDER team,
nominated for FOUR 2018 Independent Spirit
Awards; Ramona Diaz,
nominated for her
documentary documentary MOTHERLAND.
In addition, she produced the
documentary Brimstone & Glory, which was named one of the Top 5
Documentaries of 2017 by the National Board of Review and was
nominated for 4 Cinema Eye Honors
awards.
The festival
nominated female - directed films for the EDA
Awards in three categories: Best Female - Directed Narrative, Best Female - Directed
Documentary and Best Female - Directed Short.
In 1998, he and Spike Lee were
nominated for an Academy
Award for Best
Documentary Feature for the film «4 Little Girls.»
DOXA programmers have
nominated female - directed films in two EDA
Awards categories: Best Female - Directed Feature Length
Documentary and Best Female - Directed
Documentary Short.
His
documentary film, «Cartel Land,» which was recently
nominated for an Oscar and won a prestigious George Polk
Award, made us — and many self - described drug war analysts — look like opinionated snobs.
From its first ethereal tones, Academy
Award -
nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman's (Oscar -
nominated CARTEL LAND) CITY OF GHOSTS music score and sound design achieves a hauntingly simultaneous balance of nearly - imperceptible presence and atmospheric poignancy.
Six Catalyst films made waves at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: Beach Rats (U.S. Dramatic Directing
Award), Chasing Coral (U.S.
Documentary Audience
Award), The Force (U.S.
Documentary Directing
Award), Patti Cake $, Unrest (Special Jury
Award for Editing) and Strong Island (Special Jury
Award for Storytelling), which is also
nominated for an Academy
Award.
«A Private War» is BAFTA, DGA and Academy
Award -
nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman's first narrative project after helming feature
documentaries including «Cartel Land» and «City of Ghosts.»
The film had record viewership on CNN, with over a billion impressions on Twitter, generated Oscar buzz, and was
nominated for the NAACP Image
Award for Best
Documentary Film.
As an Academy ® Qualifier, the Jury
Award winners for the Narrative Short,
Documentary Short, and Animated Short categories are eligible to be
nominated for an Academy
Award.
Nominated for an Academy
Award in the Best
Documentary category, the film focuses primarily on the coach and on three youngsters whose fortunes he took a particular interest in: Chavis, Money and O.C..
We must also give kudos to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, who share a writing nomination for «The Big Sick,» a film that hasn't gotten enough
awards season love; Kazuhiro Tsuji, who is
nominated, for the third time, this year for the «Darkest Hour» makeup; and Agnès Varda and James Ivory who, at 89, are our oldest nominees this year (and the oldest on record), for the
documentary «Faces Places» and adapted screenplay of «Call Me by Your Name,» respectively.
Unlike this year's six
nominated directors, Morgen and Heineman are previous
documentary feature Academy
Award nominees.
British filmmaker of Indian origin Asif Kapadia's
documentary «Amy», which is based on the life and death of singer Amy Winehouse, has been nominated in the Outstanding British Film and Documentary award category of the upcoming 69th British Academy F
documentary «Amy», which is based on the life and death of singer Amy Winehouse, has been
nominated in the Outstanding British Film and
Documentary award category of the upcoming 69th British Academy F
Documentary award category of the upcoming 69th British Academy Film
Awards.
She has previously been
nominated for the Gaudí
Awards, and has won the «Best 3D
Documentary Film» at the Camerimage and «The Cinematographer
Award» at The WIFTS Foundation International Visionary
Awards.
It has been
nominated for Best
Documentary by the Gotham Independent Film
Awards and won a Founder's Prize at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival.
Asif Kapadia's
documentary «Amy» has been nominated in the Outstanding British Film and Documentary award category of the upcoming
documentary «Amy» has been
nominated in the Outstanding British Film and
Documentary award category of the upcoming
Documentary award category of the upcoming 69th BAFTA.
«Sherpa» was
nominated in the Best
Documentary category at the 69th British Academy Film
Awards, which took place earlier this year.
He directed the Oscar - and Emmy -
nominated documentary «How to Survive a Plague,» which has received a Peabody Award, numerous festival honors, including from the Gotham Awards, the International Documentary Association, and the New York Film Crit
documentary «How to Survive a Plague,» which has received a Peabody
Award, numerous festival honors, including from the Gotham
Awards, the International
Documentary Association, and the New York Film Crit
Documentary Association, and the New York Film Critics Circle.
Promised Land Film Review by Kam Williams Gas Company Downplays Downside of Fracking in Timely Eco-Drama In 2011, a disturbing
documentary called Gasland was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentar
documentary called Gasland was
nominated for an Academy
Award in the Best
DocumentaryDocumentary category.
It was
nominated for the 2014 Academy
Award ® for Best
Documentary, and has been released theatrically in 31 countries.
«Cartel Land,» «Listen to Me Marlon» and «Look of Silence» were also
nominated in the
documentary category at the Gotham Independent Film
Awards.
«Amy,» «Listen to Me Marlon» and «The Look of Silence» have now been
nominated for both of the top honors in non-fiction filmmaking, the Cinema Eye Honors and the International
Documentary Association's IDA
Awards.
ABC News has unveiled a trailer for a new short
documentary titled The Force of Sound, a behind - the - scenes look at sound design in Star Wars - specifically focusing on Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which is
nominated for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing at the Academy
Awards.
Composer and songwriter Ronit Kirchman, wrote the score for the riveting Golden Globe
nominated series, The Sinner (USA) and is the first - ever composer recipient of the Sundance Institute Time Warner Foundation Fellowship in Film Music and has been
awarded the Sundance Composers Lab and
Documentary Composers Lab Fellowships.
The Stanley Kramer
Award was presented to the feature
documentary, THE HUNTING GROUND, accepted by producer Amy Ziering, which included a special performance by Lady Gaga who sang «Til It Happens To You» her Oscar ® -
nominated song written for the film by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga.
Here are 3 recent reviews of mine for Hammer to Nail: I Am Not Your Negro, a new
documentary (just
nominated for an Academy
Award) about James Baldwin; Landfill Harmonic, a
documentary about children making music on instruments fashioned out of recycled trash; and the Criterion Collection's new Blu - ray release of Noah Baumbach's breakout third feature, The Squid and the Whale, about a family's dissolution in the wake of the parents» divorce.
Some Background: Director Marshall Curry is of course known for the success both of his previous
documentary features have achieved — 2005's STREET FIGHT won
awards at Tribeca, Hot Docs, and Silverdocs before going on to be
nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy, while 2009's RACING DREAMS also won at Tribeca and is being remade as a narrative feature by DreamWorks.
In February, we host our Annual Oscar Shorts Festival — these are the fifteen short films
nominated for Academy
Awards in the categories of Best Animation, Best Live - Action and Best
Documentary.
[5 stars] Get Out (03.07 / 02.24 / 03.17) Downsizing (10.13 / 12.22 / 01.19.18) The Florida Project (10.12 / 10.06 / 11.10) Colossal (04.18 / 04.07 / 05.19) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (10.15 / 11.10 / 01.12.18) The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26.16 / 02.24 / 09.23.16) A Ghost Story (08.08 / 07.07 / 08.11) Brigsby Bear (09.22 / 07.28 / 12.08) It Comes at Night (07.07 / 06.09 / 07.07) City of Ghosts (07.17 / 07.07 / 07.21) Paddington 2 (10.29 / 01.12.18 / 11.10) Human Flow (11.27 / 10.13 / 12.08) Kedi (01.03.18 / 02.10 / 06.30) The Shape of Water (10.10 / 12.08 / 02.16.18) First They Killed My Father (09.23 / 09.15 / 09.15) The Lego Batman Movie (02.04 / 02.10 / 02.10) Logan (02.17 / 03.03 / 03.01) War for the Planet of the Apes (06.21 / 07.14 / 07.11) Their Finest (10.13.16 / 04.07 / 04.21) Lady Macbeth (10.13.16 / 07.14 / 04.28) Dunkirk (07.17 / 07.21 / 07.21) Lost in Paris (Paris pieds nus)(06.16 / 06.16 / 11.24) Ingrid Goes West (08.28 / 08.11 / 11.17) The Death of Stalin (10.02 / 03.09.18 / 10.20) Call Me by Your Name (10.09 / 11.24 / 10.27) A United Kingdom (10.05.16 / 02.10 / 11.25.16) The Red Turtle (09.22.16 / 01.20 / TBA) Prevenge (10.12.16 / 03.24 / 02.10) La Soledad (08.16 / direct to VOD / 08.18) Last Flag Flying (10.07 / 11.03 / TBA) All This Panic (09.28.16 / 03.31 / 03.24) Letters from Baghdad (04.20 / 06.02 / 04.21) Oscar
Nominated Documentary Shorts (89th Academy
Awards)(02.06 / 02.08 / direct to VOD)
City of Ghosts is directed, produced, and filmed by Academy
Award nominated filmmaker Matt Heineman, of the
documentary Cartel Land previously.
He co-wrote and produced the wonderful Tim's Vermeer, which was
nominated for the Critics Choice Movie
Award for Best
Documentary in 2014.
The director of one of the year's best movies —
nominated for 2 Critics Choice
Documentary Awards — joins me on this edition of The LCJ Q&A to talk about making the powerful film.
(In full disclosure) Jennifer Merin is chair of the Critics Choice
Documentary Awards Theatrical Releases
Nominating Committee.
Ceyda Torun's Kedi garnered the
award for Best First
Documentary, and was
nominated for Most Innovative
Documentary.
Which brings me to a concluding thought and my own shameless
awards - season plug: Frederick Wiseman received an honorary
award earlier this year from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an organization that has never seen fit to
nominate one of his films for an Oscar for
documentary feature.
Pyjama Girls was
nominated for The George Morrison Feature
Documentary Award.
Alisa in Warland, one of ten films
nominated for the AWFJ EDA
Award for Best Female - Directed
Documentary at IDFA 2015, is a film in which the director discovered that she was also the lead character.