Sentences with phrase «best documentary category»

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.

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.

Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the movie has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary category.

The is the second year to feature a film about Samuel Fuller in the Best Documentary category, after 2013's A Fuller Life.

«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 Best Documentary category includes Cameraperson; I Am Not Your Negro; Life, Animated; Weiner and the epic - length ESPN documentary OJ: Made In America.

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.

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?!»

Topicality also topped the best documentary category, where «Cartel Land» director Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts» took first place.

«Exit Through the Gift Shop,» meanwhile, was a popular victor in the Best Documentary category.

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.

«Sherpa» was nominated in the Best Documentary category at the 69th British Academy Film Awards, which took place earlier this year.

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.

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..

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.

Icarus took the award over Agnès Varda's Faces Places in the Best Documentary category.

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.»

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.

«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.»

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 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.

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.

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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.

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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, Mdocumentary category, filmmaker Liz Garbus was a welcome addition to the Best Documentary Feature category forWhat Happened, MDocumentary 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.