Not exact matches
One of us, Richard Ladkani, has just been nominated for the German Television Prize's
documentary category for producing a
feature about children fleeing from Tibet.
Example: «this year for Distinguished
Feature and Short
Documentary — will be selected by IDA's members through a process in which members who wish to participate will view all of the nominated films in these
categories through a secure, password - protected online system.
There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major
categories at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the
documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Featur
documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best
Documentary Featur
Documentary Feature category.
Feature Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from the Narrative
Feature and
Documentary Feature categories.
After the recent announcements of the submitted
Feature and Shorts in the
Documentary categories for the Academy Awards, the International
Documentary Association has revealed their nominations today.
This week we field queries concerning «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,»
documentary features aimed at the Best Picture
category, «Black Swan»» s Oscar potential and Lesley Manville's lead actress campaign for «Another Year.»
LOS ANGELES, CA — One hundred forty - five
features have been submitted for consideration in the
Documentary Feature category for the 89th Academy Awards ®.
In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the
documentary, narrative
feature, and short
categories.
DOXA programmers have nominated female - directed films in two EDA Awards
categories: Best Female - Directed
Feature Length
Documentary and Best Female - Directed
Documentary Short.
co-director Agnes Varda is nominated for best
documentary and co-writer Joelle Touma is recognized in the foreign
feature category.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Another unusually strong
category.
Although Amy Berg was snubbed for her stellar year in the
documentary category, filmmaker Liz Garbus was a welcome addition to the Best Documentary Feature category forWhat Happened, M
documentary category, filmmaker Liz Garbus was a welcome addition to the Best
Documentary Feature category forWhat Happened, M
Documentary Feature category forWhat Happened, Miss Simone?
The festival showcases
feature narratives,
feature documentaries, a slew of short
categories and even episodic, but I mostly love to go for the
documentaries.
Best Picture Will Win: The Artist Deserves to Win: The Artist Overlooked: Bridesmaids Best Director Will Win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Deserves to Win: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Overlooked: David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) Best Actor Will Win: George Clooney (The Descendants) Deserves to Win: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Overlooked: Ryan Gosling (Drive) Best Actress Will Win: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Deserves to Win: Viola Davis (The Help) Overlooked: Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) Best Supporting Actor Will Win: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Deserves to Win: Max von Sydow (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) Overlooked: Albert Brooks (Drive) Best Supporting Actress Will Win: Octavia Spencer (The Help) Deserves to Win: Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) Overlooked: Carey Mulligan (Drive) Best Original Screenplay: Will Win: Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) Deserves to Win: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo (Bridesmaids) Overlooked: Lars von Trier (Melancholia) Best Adapted Screenplay: Will Win: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (The Descendants) Deserves to Win: Steve Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (Moneyball) Overlooked: Tate Tatlor and Kathryn Stockett (The Help) Predictions for Secondary
Categories Animated
Feature: Rango Art Direction: Hugo Foreign Language Film: A Separation Cinematography: The Tree of Life Costume Design: The Artist
Documentary Feature: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Film Editing: The Artist Makeup: The Iron Lady Original Score: The Artist Original Song: «Man or Muppet» (The Muppets) Sound Editing: Hugo Sound Mixing: Hugo Visual Effects: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
In addition to these short
categories, additional
categories in competition include Narrative
Feature,
Documentary Feature, Comedy Vanguard
Feature, Dark Matters
Feature, and Narrative Student Short.
The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January and is in contention for an Oscar ® in the Best
Documentary Feature category.
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced Audience Award - winners today from the Narrative
Feature Competition,
Documentary Feature Competition, Narrative Spotlight,
Documentary Spotlight, Emerging Visions, Midnighters, 24 Beats Per Second, SXGlobal, Festival Favorites and Design Award
categories.
Plus, we've added the below - the - line predictions in all
categories save
Documentary Feature and Foreign Language Film for now.
Ron Howard is nominated in the Best Director of a
Documentary Feature category for «The Beatles: Eight Days a Week», and Morgan Spurlock is nominated for the equivalent Best Director of a TV / Streaming Doc for «Rats» from the Discovery Channel.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 15 films (out of the 145 films submitted) in the
Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 89th Academy Awards ®.
* This figure of $ 168 million represents the Irish expenditure for all projects which went into production this year in the
categories of independent film, TV drama, animation and
feature documentary only.
The Philadelphia Film Festival's «PFF On Us» program continues in 2014 with free tickets available for all the films
featured in the «American Independents» and «
Documentary Showcase» film
categories.
Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams announced the nominees in the following
categories: Animated
Feature Film,
Documentary Feature,
Documentary Short Subject, Film Editing, Original Song, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.
Directors Guillermo del Toro («Pan's Labyrinth») and two - time winner Ang Lee («Brokeback Mountain,» «Life of Pi») take the stage at 8:30 a.m. ET to announce nominees in these
categories: animated
feature, cinematography, costume design,
documentary feature,
documentary short, makeup and hairstyling, song, animated short, live action short, sound editing and sound mixing.
The
feature documentary film
category and other television
category nominations were previously announced by the PGA in late 2014.
The anticipated lineup of over 125 films will include U.S. Dramatic and
Documentary Features, World Cinema, Premieres, Red Carpet Screenings and Studio Sneak Previews, Narrative Shorts, the Animated Shorts Film
Category, sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Intel, and
Documentary Short Subjects.
Audience Awards will be bestowed on Favorites in the following
categories: Narrative
Features,
Documentary Features, Narrative Shorts,
Documentary Short Subjects, Lounge
Features, Lounge Shorts, Animated Shorts, and Actor and Actress.
Three
documentaries about, or at least partially about, race in America were nominated in the Best
Documentary Feature category at this year's Oscars.
This
category, like Foreign Language Film and
Documentary Feature, have always been made up of small committees that are able to formulate the eventual nominees but this year it's all in.
And in the Best
Documentary Feature category, where it can help to come out early in the year — that way you avoid being lost in the deluge of screeners that voters in the
Documentary Branch receive — we've already seen a strong contender in the political doc «Weiner,» and a complete wild card in ESPN's five - part, seven - and - a-half-hour «O.J.: Made in America.»
Best
Documentary Feature is one of the
categories that have produced such a shortlist.
LIFE ITSELF: Steve James» look at the life and last days of Roger Ebert, based on Ebert's autobiography of the same name, seemed like a shoo - in for the
documentary feature category.
Best
Documentary Feature appears to be one of the numerous Academy Award
categories that the general public just doesn't care about.
Now I actually thought that this is the way it whas been for years but apparently just yesterday The Academy announced it would now be sending Oscar Voters DVDs for the following
categories: Foreign Language Film,
Documentary Feature,
Documentary Short Subject, Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film.
Twenty
features will compete for awards: 10 in the narrative
category and 10 in the
documentary group.
Feature Films receiving Jury Awards were selected from the Narrative
Feature and
Documentary Feature Competition
categories.
Its omission was one of two big surprises that kept Sony Pictures Classics out of the
category altogether, which is unusual for the stalwart importer, which also was shut out of the Best
Documentary Feature race.
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When one factors in all the
categories offered, I saw a total of 39 narrative
features,
documentaries, and pilots during the festival.
This year, the best narrative
feature category sees 12 films battling it out for the prestigious prize, while 12
documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best
documentary feature.
The is the second year to
feature a film about Samuel Fuller in the Best
Documentary category, after 2013's A Fuller Life.
The eligible films were those in the narrative
feature and
documentary feature competition
categories; the Audience Awards, to be announced March 16, are culled from all
feature categories save headliners and special events.
As for the remaining
categories, it was a disappointment that Going Clear didn't earn a nod for
documentary feature, where Amy and The Look of Silence remain the favorites.
Best Foreign FIlm,
Documentary Feature and the various short film
categories are the ones that break the Oscar pool.
On January 14th, 2016 Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee announced the nominees in the following
categories: Animated
Feature Film, Cinematography, Costume Design,
Documentary Feature,
Documentary Short Subject, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Song, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.
In addition, Sundance is also including a new From the Collection
category that will
feature 20th anniversary screenings of Clerks and the
documentary Hoop Dreams.
Agnès Varda and JR's
documentary Faces Places (Visages Villages) could be a contender in the Documentary Feature category with a US distributor and release date and a first Oscar nomination for the 89 - year
documentary Faces Places (Visages Villages) could be a contender in the
Documentary Feature category with a US distributor and release date and a first Oscar nomination for the 89 - year
Documentary Feature category with a US distributor and release date and a first Oscar nomination for the 89 - year old Varda.
Though it carries a relatively - low profile with the general public, Best
Documentary Feature is one of the Academy's more controversial Oscar
categories, with many alleging that the best
documentaries often get overlooked when it comes to nomination time.
The only other Antipodean work honoured was Annie Goldson's New Zealand
documentary Kim Dotcom: Caught in The Web, which earned a Special Mention in the Feature Documentary section; Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo was deemed the front runner in tha
documentary Kim Dotcom: Caught in The Web, which earned a Special Mention in the
Feature Documentary section; Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo was deemed the front runner in tha
Documentary section; Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo was deemed the front runner in that
category.
She also had a sly dig at the fact her own acclaimed
documentary, «Tig,» wasn't nominated for Best
Feature even though the
category was allowed to expand to six films this years («Not honored to not be nominated»).