Sundance 2020 Oscar Preview: Keep Your Eye on the Documentaries
Among those to watch are Netflix’s “Crip Camp,” the Parkland, Fla. survivors in “Us Kids,” and “The Dissident,” about Jamal Khashoggi.
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PGA Awards Reveal Documentary Motion Picture Nominations, Bolstering Under-Seen Picks
Only one box office hit is among the PGA documentary nominations, often considered a bellwether for Oscar attention.
IndieWire FYC Brunch: National Geographic’s Best Documentaries Have Inherent Risk
National Geographic’s awards offerings include “The Cave,” “Sea of Shadows,” “The Nightcrawlers,” and “Lost and Found,” all of which tell stories with huge risks for subject and filmmaker.
Broadcast Film Critics Association Names 2019 Documentary Award Winners
The BFCA adds weight behind the year’s top nonfiction contenders as they head into the Oscar race.
International Documentary Association Awards: ‘Apollo 11’ and ‘Honeyland’ Lead Nominations
Neon tops the IDAs with four nominees, while the “Courage Under Fire” award goes to “For Sama” director Waad Al-Kateab who shot five years in Aleppo under constant shelling.
International Documentary Association Awards Shortlist Includes ‘Apollo 11,’ ‘The Cave,’ and ‘Honeyland’
The final winners will be announced at the IDA Awards on December 7.
IndieWire and International Documentary Association Partner for Annual Awards Season Screening Series
The series is expanding to the first time to New York City, while Angelenos will get a chance to catch over 20 of 2019’s best documentary films.
A Sensitive Portrait of Working-Class African Americans, By an Italian Who Fears and Loves the South
Italian-born, Texas–based filmmaker Roberto Minervini reflects on being an outsider with “What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?”
How D.A. Pennebaker Changed the Art of Documentary Filmmaking
Filmmaker Robert Greene (“Bisbee ’17”) explains the late documentary legend’s impact and surveys his career.
‘The Great Hack’ Terrified Sundance Audiences, and Then the Documentary Got Even Scarier
The story was Sony, then Cambridge Analytica, then Facebook, then Trump. And then it changed again.
MTV Documentary Films Unveils Sheila Nevins’ First Two Oscar Qualifiers
The MTV Documentary FIlms czar is up and running.
How Cameron Crowe Made a David Crosby Documentary and Found His Future
The writer-director of “Jerry Maguire” and “Almost Famous” sees a way out of the studio morass, and the aging rocker helped him get there.
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