Sentences with phrase «documentary icarus»

Bryan Fogel's documentary Icarus played an important role exposing Russia's vast state - sponsored doping program, a scheme that recently prompted the International Olympic Committee to ban the country from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

I honestly thought she was going to win that as well, and as solid as the Russian doping documentary Icarus might have been, I'd much rather if my prediction had come to pass.

They will be joined by three titles acquired by Netflix this January: Chasing Ice follow - up Chasing Coral, The Incredible Jessica James and Russian doping documentary Icarus, which was bagged for $ 5 million, one of the largest non-fiction purchases in Sundance's history.

Not exact matches

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.»

Sometimes he recommends documentaries to Miller and Bruins center Patrice Bergeron as well, like the Oscar - winning Icarus.

Last week we were shocked to see Eliot Spitzer himself participating in Alex Gibney's new untitled documentary (and comparing himself to Icarus to boot).

Icarus: My guy and I watched this shortly before the Oscars and I can definitely see why it won best documentary feature.

Best Motion Picture, Documentary Chasing Coral City of Ghosts Cries from Syria Ex Libris: New York Public Library Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS Human Flow Icarus Kedi Legion of Brothers

If you were adventurous enough to look beyond the premieres at the 1500 capacity Eccles theater, you would find incredible independent cinema, made by tomorrow's visionaries, stamped all over the festival's NEXT section, or even the Documentary sections which have become a hotbed for Oscar - nominated non-fiction, just this year 3 of the 5 Best Documentary nominees made their premieres at Sundance in 2017 («Icarus,» «Strong Island,» and «Last Men in Allepo).

BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY AlphaGo — Director: Greg Kohs (Submarine Entertainment / Moxie Pictures, Reel As Dirt) Disgraced — Director: Pat Kondelis (Showtime Networks / Bat Bridge Entertainment) Icarus — Director: Bryan Fogel (Netflix / Alex Productions, Diamond Docs, Impact Partners) Speed Sisters — Director: Amber Fares (First Run Features / SocDoc Studios) Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton — Director: Rory Kennedy (Sundance Selects / Moxie Firecracker Films) Trophy — Directors: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz (CNN Films, The Orchard / Candescent Films, Pulse Films, Reel Peak Films)

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).

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

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.

Best Documentary Feature Icarus Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Faces Places Last Men in Aleppo Strong Island

Often overlooked by the Academy, Netflix had a very good morning on Tuesday, earning seven nominations, including several key nods for «Mudbound» and the Russian doping documentary «Icarus.»

Netflix's run of documentary nods continues with a double nomination, thanks to sports doping doc Icarus and the powerfully personal Strong Island.

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

The streaming service - turned - studio has two nominated documentaries, «Strong Island» and «Icarus.»

The top documentary was «Icarus,» and France prevailed in the Foreign Language race with a tie between «BPM» and «Faces Places.»

DOCUMENTARY City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck Icarus — Bryan Fogel An Inconvenient Sequel — Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk Jane — Brett Morgen

Of, for those still catching up on this year's awards contenders, we also have a list of which 2018 Oscar nominees are on VOD, from Netflix's documentary contenders, Icarus and Strong Island, to Amazon Prime Video's The Big Sick.

it will have to beat, among others, another hot - topic docu in Icarus, for which distributor Netflix has been doing a full court ad campaign in print, online and TV like few ever have been waged on behalf of a documentary.

Greta Gerwig and Laura Dern presented the Oscar for the Best Documentary to Bryan Fogel for Icarus.

The fieriest moment in the press room occurred when director Bryan Fogel and producer Dan Cogan arrived after winning Best Documentary for «Icarus,» the first Netflix - distributed feature to snag an Oscar.

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)

Picture: Get Out Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Actor: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Actress: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Original Screenplay: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name Foreign Language: A Fantastic Woman Documentary Feature: Icarus Animated Feature Film: Coco Documentary Short: Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Animated Short: Revolting Rhymes Live Action Short: The Eleven O'Clock Film Editing: Dunkirk Production Design: The Shape of Water Cinematography: The Shape of Water Costume Design: Phantom Thread Makeup and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour Score: The Shape of Water Song: «Remember Me,» Coco Sound Editing: Dunkirk Sound Mixing: Dunkirk Visual Effects: War for the Planet of the Apes

The title of the documentary references the famous Greek myth of Icarus.

Bryan Fogel's («Jewtopia») thriller documentary «Icarus» promises intrigue and tension.

In this nail - biting documentary, is Icarus Rodchenkov, or the Russian government?

These days, Netflix is killing it with its original programming, from the well - received returns of Stranger Things and Black Mirror, to the harrowing Mudbound and two extraordinary documentaries, Icarus and Strong Island (both of them nominated for Oscars).

Documentary Feature Faces Places < — frontrunner Last Men in Aleppo Strong Island Icarus Abbacus Too Small to Jail

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?

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Ken Burns & Lynn Novick — The Vietnam War Bryan Fogel — Icarus Matthew Heineman — City of Ghosts Steve James — Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Errol Morris — Wormwood

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

(«Chasing Coral» and «Icarus» are now on the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary.)

Documentary Feature Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Faces / Places Winner — Icarus Last Men in Aleppo Strong Island

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.

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.

They've even just scored several Oscar nominations — for the harrowing Mudbound and two extraordinary documentaries, Icarus and Strong Island.

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.

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.

I could be wrong but the closest thing to a surprise so far is «Icarus» winning documentary feature.

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing — Feature Documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Bill Nye: The Science Guy Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS Icarus In Pursuit of Silence Jane Score: A Film Music Documentary

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

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Orwell Award was presented to: Icarus (Director: Bryan Fogel)-- When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold — exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.

Bioshock Infinite is just a month away from finally arriving on store shelves, and to keep us all interested Irrational Games released the second part of their «A Modern Day Icarus» video, a brilliantly done short «documentary.»