Sentences with phrase «best documentary feature»

I recommend watching Citizenfour, the documentary about Snowden that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars.

Nevertheless, two green - themed documentaries have been nominated: Gasland, by Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic, for Best Documentary Feature, which takes on the ever - controversial (rightly so) topic of fracking; and Sun Come Up, by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger, for Best documentary short subject, which tells the plight of the Carteret Islanders as the relocate to neighboring islands as their ancestral home is sunk by sea level rise.

In the Best Documentary Feature listing there are more worthy eco-contenders, including Food, Inc. and The Cove, which recently took the Critics Choice award.

Creative Capital would like to congratulate filmmaker Yance Ford on receiving a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his Creative Capital Project Strong Island!

In 2016, Grimonprez's most recent feature length film, Shadow World, won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland and at the 61st International Film Festival of Valladolid, Spain.

In 2016, Grimonprez's film Shadow World won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland and at the 61st International Film Festival of Valladolid, Spain.

The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award, and went on to receive another 70 prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award, the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature, a Gotham Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors.

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

In typical fashion, this year's Oscar race for Best Documentary Feature began at Sundance, with the festival yielding several standouts.

Just before she was to present best documentary feature, Greta Gerwig was having her makeup touched up — «I did you on «No Strings Attached!»

9 Comments Tags: 3D, Best Documentary Feature, Best Foreign Language Film, Pina, Toronto Film Festival, Wim Wenders Filed in: Daily

Eli Roth to Produce Horror Movie Based on Fake Trailer Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature Announced

Or Errol Morris took home a way - belated Best Documentary Feature award for The Fog of War in 2004?

He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk, which premiered at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival, and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.

Bryan Fogel accepts the award for best documentary feature for «Icarus» at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Erik Anderson February 19, 2015 2014/2015 Predictions, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Animated Feature, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Documentary Feature, Best Film Editing, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Make - Up & Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Visual Effects, Film, Oscars, Predictions, Slider, The Gold Rush Gang Leave a comment

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.

Agnes Varda, nominated for Best Documentary Feature with her film Faces Places, is one year older than Plummer, and the current record holder for oldest nominee.

«Fame High» premieres Saturday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. Kennedy's «The Garden» was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2009.

Best Documentary Feature: Faces Places.

Based on Tobias Schneebaum's book, the film went on to play in over 37 international film festivals winning many major awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best New Director (2001), the Special Jury Award at IDFA (2000), Best Documentary Feature at the Hamptons Film festival (2000) and a Special Critics Award At LAFF (2000).

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Laura Poitras» «Citizenfour» is the prohibitive favorite and Steve James» «Life Itself» seems all - but - certain to get the twice - snubbed James his first nomination.

Media Mikes.com staff voted on four additional categories — BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY and BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY.

But Netflix has never won an Oscar for a feature film, and Best Documentary Feature may well be there best chance at breaking that particular glass ceiling this year.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Amy Cartel Land Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief He Named Me Malala The Look of Silence Where to Invade Next

Oscar - nominated documentarian Lilibet Foster took on the task of filming Whitfield's life from that day on and the result is the film Be Here Now — which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year.

Until now, members who wanted to vote for Best Documentary Feature, Live Action Short or Animated Short would need to trek to designated...

Lucy Walker is an English documentary filmmaker who has been nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Documentary Feature (Waste Land) and Short (The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom) with the latter winning the award.

The winner of Best Documentary Feature went to Everardo González's Drought.

The Grand Budapest Hotel won big, too, but it was a night that also saw Obvious Child star Jenny Slate taking home the award for Best Actress in a Comedy, The Lego Movie winning Best Animated Feature and Life Itself won for Best Documentary Feature.

Shoval's AWOL, and Crow's JACKSON also took home the Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature, and Best Documentary Feature, respectively, while Alma Har» el's LOVETRUE doubled up on the Jury Award and the Audience Award for Best Departures Feature.

→ 2 Comments Tags: Barack Obama, Best Actress, Best Documentary Feature, Conviction, Jennifer Lawrence, Juliette Lewis, Love & Other Drugs, The Debt, The Social Network, Tony Goldwyn, Waiting for Superman, Winter's Bone Filed in: Daily

Lucy Walker is an English documentary filmmaker who has been nominated for the Academy Award for both Best Documentary Feature...

Best Documentary Feature — Bobbi Jene, directed by Elvira Lind (USA, Denmark, Israel).

Deb Shoval's AWOL won the jury award (and a $ 1000 cash prize) for Best Narrative Feature, Maisie Crow's JACKSON took home the jury award (and $ 1000 courtesy of Classic American Hardwoods) for Best Documentary Feature, and Madsen Minax's KAIROS DIRT & THE ERRANT VACUUM received the nod (and a $ 1000 cash prize) as Best Hometowner Feature.

Best Documentary Feature WINNER: «Icarus» «Abbacus: Small Enough to Jail» «Faces Places» «Last Men In Alepopo» «Strong Island»

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.

Nomination: Best Documentary Feature

Either The Act of Killing or 20 Feet to Stardom are most likely to claim the Best Documentary Feature award.

Best Picture: «The Artist» Best Animated Feature: «The Adventures of Tintin» Best Documentary Feature: «Cave of Forgotten Dreams» Best Foreign...

OSCAR CHANCES: With the celebrity clout of such stars like Johnny Depp in their corner should be a lock for a Best Documentary Feature nod.

Best Documentary Feature Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Faces Places Icarus Last Man in Aleppo Strong Island Where the hell is Jane, Brett Morgan's hugely popular look at primatologist Jane Goodall?

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Citizenfour Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Jodorowsky's Dune Last Days in Vietnam Life Itself The Overnighters

Over its first seven years, the awards twice gave their top honor to the film that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Best documentary feature • «Amy» Asif Kapadia and James Gay - Rees • «Cartel Land» Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin • «The Look of Silence» Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen • «What Happened, Miss Simone?»

Timothée Chalamet would be the youngest Best Actor in a Leading Role of all time, while Best Documentary Feature director Agnès Varda (Faces Places) is the oldest - ever nominee.

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Nominees: 13th, Fire at Sea, I Am Not Your Negro, Life, Animated, O.J.: Made in America Should Win: 13th Will Win: O.J.: Made in America

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the whistleblower and journalists behind the NSA revelations, conducted a Reddit AMA on Monday to coincide with the release of HBO's Citizenfour, which won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday night.

If they do so, they'd be creating Oscar history, making screenwriter James Ivory the oldest winner in Oscar's 90 - year history — unless Faces Places co-director Agnès Varda wins for Best Documentary Feature the same night.

As for Best Documentary Feature, Amy, Cartel Land, The Look of Silence, What Happened, Miss Simone?