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The streaming service also earned three nominations for its documentaries «Icarus,» «Strong Island,» and «Heroin (e),» and one nod for the foreign language film «On Body and Soul.»

The service has films licensed from major studios — Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. — as well as indie distributors including Janus Films, Flicker Alley, Icarus Films, Kino, Milestone, Zeitgeist, Film Movement, Global Lens, First Run Features, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Shout Factory.

Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos held the premium service's first feature film Oscar outside the Governors Ball, along with director Bryan Fogel (right), whose winning doc, «Icarus,» detailed doping in Russian athletics.

It's been an excellent year for documentaries already in 2017 with such incredible films as Icarus, An Inconvenient Sequel, Nobody Speak, and Trophy all premiering at Sundance (those last two playing SXSW as well).

Amazon's The Big Sick and Netflix's Mudbound won nothing, but Netflix's film about Russian doping, Icarus, took best documentary, suggesting the Academy's resistance to streaming services is weakening.

Three of the films in my top 10 are Netflix releases — Casting JonBenet, Icarus, and Okja — and it's been an uphill battle persuading anyone to watch them even though people could right now, on their couch, for free.

Netflix nabbed its first feature film Oscar at the 2018 Academy Awards last night, with Icarus winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: «Darkest Hour» (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick) BEST COSTUME DESIGN: «Phantom Thread» (Mark Bridges) BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «Icarus» (Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan) BEST SOUND EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Richard King, Alex Gibson) BEST SOUND MIXING: «Dunkirk» (Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten) BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: «The Shape of Water» (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «A Fantastic Woman» from Chile BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: «Dear Basketball» (Kobe Bryant, Glen Keane) BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: «Blade Runner 2049» (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover) BEST FILM EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Lee Smith) BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: «Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405» (Frank Stiefel) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: «The Silent Child» (Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: «Call Me by Your Name» (James Ivory) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: «Blade Runner 2049» (Roger Deakins) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: «The Shape of Water» (Alexandre Desplat) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: «Remember Me» from «Coco» BEST DIRECTING: Guillermo del Toro, «The Shape of Water» BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST PICTURE: «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

They tackle the film from an array of perspectives, documenting the cast's zero - G pre-production flights, addressing the themes and science, checking in with the voice of Icarus, discussing the effects and design, and so on.

Sunshine is a good, sometimes very good film for most of the journey, though the film, much like the journey of the Icarus II itself, gets detoured into a nearly - fatal trajectory toward its ultimate destination.

It's especially gratifying to say hello to people I've actually come to know a bit, like Coco director Lee Unkrich, a proud USC grad who brought his film to my class last fall, or Icarus» Bryan Fogel, who was my guest just last week.

Two of the five Best Documentary Feature nominees are Netflix films: Icarus, Bryan Fogel's exploration of a major doping conspiracy, and Strong Island, Yance Ford's account of her brother's unlawful murder.

Netflix scored its first feature - film Oscar, with best documentary going to «Icarus,» Bryan Fogel's investigation into doping in sports, aided by the assistance of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory who candidly discussed the doping scheme under Vladimir Putin.

While «Faces Places» will certainly benefit from the sheer pleasure it provides, there are some voters who may consider too slight in comparison to more «important» films like Bryan Fogel's «Icarus ``.

Bryan Fogel, Director of Icarus, and Dan Cogan, Producer of Icarus «We could not be more honored to be nominated for the Oscar ® with this esteemed group of films and filmmakers.

The best documentary feature award went to «Icarus,» a Netflix film about institutionalized doping in Russian athletics and at the Olympics.

Award - winning films such as The Eagle Huntress, Icarus, Trophy, and Step are prime examples of the CMPI / I films.

The headless winged everyman of Vlassis Caniaris's Big Swing (1974) recalls both Icarus and Bud Cort's mad character in the film Brewster McCloud (1970), whose defiance of human limitation seems to end in tragedy — or does it?