PRESS RELEASE — Aug 26 — Osiris Entertainment has set a DVD street date of September 15 for its award -
winning feature doc «Single».
Not exact matches
Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos held the premium service's first
feature film Oscar outside the Governors Ball, along with director Bryan Fogel (right), whose
winning doc, «Icarus,» detailed doping in Russian athletics.
«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof, debuted last November at
DOC NYC and went on to
win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience awards for Best Documentary
Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Women directed over a third of this year's
features,
won all four directing prizes: Sara Colangelo for The Kindergarten Teacher (US drama), Alexandria Bombach for On Her Shoulders (US documentary), Sandi Tan for Shirkers (international
doc) and Ísold Uggadóttir for And Breathe Normally (international drama).
SNUB: «City of Ghosts» for Best Documentary
Feature:
Docs about the ongoing Syria crisis have been fertile ground for award winning docs like «Last Men In Aleppo» and last year's Best Short Doc winner, «The White Helmets.&ra
Docs about the ongoing Syria crisis have been fertile ground for award
winning docs like «Last Men In Aleppo» and last year's Best Short Doc winner, «The White Helmets.&ra
docs like «Last Men In Aleppo» and last year's Best Short
Doc winner, «The White Helmets.»
Some Background: Director Marshall Curry is of course known for the success both of his previous documentary
features have achieved — 2005's STREET FIGHT
won awards at Tribeca, Hot
Docs, and Silverdocs before going on to be nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy, while 2009's RACING DREAMS also
won at Tribeca and is being remade as a narrative
feature by DreamWorks.
His 2004
doc The Fog of War (which is a must - see)
won the Best Documentary
Feature Oscar.
A surprise
win came in Best Editing when the seven - hour ESPN
doc O.J.: Made in America took home the award over a number of traditional narrative
features.
I'm very happy about the two
feature films that
won this year, but as always I wish more of my favorite
docs were nominated.
Best Director: Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water Drama Series: Reed Morano, «The Handmaid's Tale» for «Offred» Best Movies for Television and Miniseries: Jeanmarc Vallee, «Big Little Lies» Comedy Series: Beth McCarthy - Miller, «Veep» for «Chicklet» Best First
Feature: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Doc Feature: City of Ghosts Brian Smith
wins the DGA Award for reality programs for MasterChef, «Vegas Deluxe & Oyster Shucks» Glenn Weiss
wins DGA Award for VARIETY / TALK / NEWS / SPORTS — SPECIALS for the Academy Awards telecast.
Doc Fortnight opens on February 16 with the international premiere of Gillian Wearing «s Self Made (2010, Great Britain), the debut
feature by the Turner Prize —
winning artist.