Sentences with phrase «oscar documentary category»

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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 Featurdocumentary 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 FeaturDocumentary Feature category.

Re the Oscars, there is a misperception that the documentary category is more inclusive, less sexist and less racist than the other categories.

Three documentaries about, or at least partially about, race in America were nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at this year's Oscars.

«If a movie has ever deserved to win both the best film as well as best documentary categories at the Oscars, then this is it.»

Both films are contenders in the Oscars documentaries race, which only has one nonfiction category of Best Documentary.

At the Oscars, Macdonald and his crew made a comment about how the Academy did not go for the obvious choice in the documentary category.

We pretend the Oscars never honor female directors, but Oscars go to female directors sometimes... in ostensible second - tier categories such as this and Best Documentary.

The always - topical documentary category is likely to keep its crown as the newsiest bracket at the Oscars by nominating not one, but two features about Syria — festival favorite City of Ghosts, acquired by Amazon in a $ 2 million deal, and Last Men in Aleppo, winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize — as well as Icarus, an investigation into Russia's shady doping program (which should get a boost from the news that Russia has been banned from the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics), and Jane, a lyrical look at pioneering primatologist Jane Goodall, who spent years battling a scientific community that refused to take her seriously.