«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.»
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 MOTHERLAND.
Therefore,
the BEST DOCUMENTARY category, which last year was separated into Theatrical Releases and TV / Streaming releases, has been merged into a single category, and the same is also true for the BEST DIRECTOR and BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY categories.»
Icarus took the award over Agnès Varda's Faces Places in
the Best Documentary category.
The invite to the Baftas came about because of Laura Poitras's Citizenfour, which won
the best documentary category and is on the shortlist for an Oscar on Sunday.
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..
In addition to
the Best Documentary category (in which the Oscar - winning Amy has been nominated alongside similarly urgent films like the campus rape exposé The Hunting Ground), there will also be a True Story category devoted to narrative films based on actual events.
«Sherpa» was nominated in
the Best Documentary category at the 69th British Academy Film Awards, which took place earlier this year.
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 Documentary category.
«Exit Through the Gift Shop,» meanwhile, was a popular victor in
the Best Documentary category.
Topicality also topped
the best documentary category, where «Cartel Land» director Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» took first place.
In the Fade Shut Out of Best Foreign - Language Film Like
the Best Documentary category, the Best Foreign - Language Film typically leads to a few WTF looks on Oscar morning — but the AWOL status of Fatih Akin's In the Fade reaches even another level of «wait, what?!»
The biggest shock of the evening came when the critically lauded The Act of Killing was beaten in
the Best Documentary category by its music - themed rival, 20 Feet From Stardom.
The Best Documentary category includes Cameraperson; I Am Not Your Negro; Life, Animated; Weiner and the epic - length ESPN documentary OJ: Made In America.
«True Conviction» — which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in New York and was awarded a special jury mention in
the best documentary category — details two cases that Scott and his colleagues Johnnie Lindsey and Steven Phillips worked on.
The is the second year to feature a film about Samuel Fuller in
the Best Documentary category, after 2013's A Fuller Life.
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the movie has been nominated for an Academy Award in
the Best Documentary category.
Perennial nominee Meryl Streep made history with her 20th nomination for Florence Foster Jenkins, and director Ava DuVernay, overlooked by Oscar for Selma a year ago, was recognized this time around in
the Best Documentary category for 13th.
In January Ms. Cook posted to Facebook about the misperception that
the best documentary category at the Academy Awards is more inclusive than the other major award categories.
Not exact matches
The film has won silver in the
category Best Documentary in the 2009 IVCA (International Visual Communications Association) Awards.
In addition to being a health researcher and real foods advocate, she's also a novelist (her book Karma, a psychological thriller set in the disturbing world of sex trafficking, was an award - winning finalist in the «
Best New Fiction
category of the National
Best Book Awards 2009) and a
documentary maker (she's currently planning a trip to India which will be documented in the travelogue Searching For The Buddha).
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.
The Academy Award's 2017
Best Original Song
category became possibly the queerest of any
category in Oscar history with gay crooner Sam Smith's Spectre theme also competing against bisexual Lady Gaga's showtune - ish ballad from campus rape
documentary The Hunting Ground.
But director Heath Cozens does show a sensitive eye, and his special commendation in the
Documentary category at Fantastic Fest was
well deserved.
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.»
The WGA awarded the year's
best writing in TV,
documentary, radio, video games and advertising in 28 total
categories, along with honorary awards on both coasts for the likes of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, James L. Brooks, Alison Cross, Dustin Lance Black and the screenwriters behind this year's The Post.
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.
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.
DOXA programmers have nominated female - directed films in two EDA Awards
categories:
Best Female - Directed Feature Length
Documentary and
Best Female - Directed
Documentary Short.
The standard
categories are
Best Picture,
Best Actor,
Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress,
Best Ensemble,
Best Director,
Best Adapted Screenplay,
Best Original Screenplay,
Best Cinematography,
Best Art Direction / Production Design,
Best Visual Effects,
Best Score,
Best Foreign - Language Film,
Best Animated Film and
Best Documentary.
Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m.
Categories include
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Director,
Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Actor,
Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Supporting Actor,
Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Supporting Actress,
Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Screenplay,
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Foreign Language Film,
Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Documentary,
Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Animated Film,
Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Cinematography,
Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for
best low - budget or cutting - edge independent fi
best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).
In other
categories, the winner in
Best Documentary was Jane, which edged out Ex Libris: New York Public Library.
Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following
categories:
Best Picture,
Best Director,
Best Actor,
Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actor,
Best Supporting Actress,
Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any
category,
Best Screenplay, and
Best Documentary.
«As our industry continues to grow and change, the nominating committees of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association came to the decision together that we needed our
categories to
better reflect the current way
documentaries are released as
well as how the audience consumes content.
The Scorecard Review Movie Awards:
Best of the Decade (Almost) CLICK HERE to vote
Best Documentary Editor's note: TSR Movie Awards started in 2002, but the
Documentary category wasn't added until 2006 2006 — An Inconvenient Truth 2006 — Jesus Camp 2007 — No End in Sight 2007 — Sicko 2008 — Man on Wire 2008 — Dear Zachary: A -LSB-...]
he HBO four - part
documentary event THE DEFIANT ONES was recently honored by the International Documentary Association at its 33rd annual IDA Documentary Awards in the category of Best Limi
documentary event THE DEFIANT ONES was recently honored by the International
Documentary Association at its 33rd annual IDA Documentary Awards in the category of Best Limi
Documentary Association at its 33rd annual IDA
Documentary Awards in the category of Best Limi
Documentary Awards in the
category of
Best Limited Series.
Kathleen Hepburn rounds out that
category, and Jacquelyn Mills» In the Waves and Charles Officer's Unarmed Verses are the other
Best Documentary nominees.
co-director Agnes Varda is nominated for
best documentary and co-writer Joelle Touma is recognized in the foreign feature
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?
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
It was also a Special Mention in the
category of Golden Eye for
Best International
Documentary Film, alongside Joshua Oppenheimer's «The Look of Silence» (the follow - up to his Oscar nominee, «The Act of Killing»), at the Zurich Film Festival.
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.
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.
In a crowded Foreign Film
category, the sublime and deserving Portugese entry «Mysteries of Lisbon» won, while Formula One race driver biopic «Senna» (unfortunately overlooked on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Oscar shortlist) was honored as
Best Documentary, and Steven Spielberg's «The Adventures of Tintin» was named
Best Animated or Mixed Media Motion Picture.
Four of five films vying for
Best Documentary were made by black filmmakers, including the poignant 13th from Ava DuVernay, the first black woman to be nominated in this
category.
Ellen Goosenberg Kent, the Oscar - nominated director of» «Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1,» nominated in the
Best Documentary Short
category.
Four of the nominated films lean hard on pressing social issues, always a plus, and no two overlap in subject matter, but the
best documentary in this
category, Lucy Walker's Waste Land, doesn't lean hard on our social issues.
As previously announced, award winning filmmaker Nancy Meyers will receive the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award presented to her by long - time friend and frequent collaborator, Steve Martin, and winners for
best editing will be announced in ten
categories of film, television and
documentaries.
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.
Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following
categories:
Best Picture,
Best Director,
Best Actor,
Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actor,
Best Supporting Actress,
Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough Performance,
Best Screenplay, and
Best Documentary.