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Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Malik Bendjelloul (Searching for Sugar Man) Kirby Dick (The Invisible War) David France (How to Survive a Plague) Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles) Alison Klayman (Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry) (thanks to Paddy at ScreenOnScreen) ...

Word went out to Academy members today about a big change in ballot procedure for three categories. Until now, members who wanted to vote for Best Documentary Feature, Live Action Short or Animated Short would need to trek to designated screening locations where they got their hands stamped as certified proof that they’d seen all the nominated films before voting....

The year’s best documentaries – Ken Burns, The Central Park Five doc, Queen of Versailles, Samsara, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and West of Memphis...

Once again, the documentary category will contain an embarrassment of riches. You might not be nearly as moved by many of the films in the narrative race...

An investigative look at America’s war on drugs and its impact on the criminal justice system. Director Eugene Jarecki was Bill Maher’s first guest on Real Time tonight with a message that’s been obscured for decades: The so-called War on Drugs is effectively a War on Minorities, and the causalities of that war are predominantly young Black men The House...

Some trailers don’t need accompanying synopsis or explanation. This isn’t one of those. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary about Indonesian Death Squads will screen in Toronto as well, and the TIFF site is where I found the best observations about the bizarre proceedings. “I have not come across a documentary as powerful, surreal, and frightening...

HBO airs the premiere of VITO tonight at 9:00 PM ET/PT, a documentary about the pioneering gay activist and film historian who wrote The Celluloid Closet. Our buddy Nathanial Rogers of The Film Experience talks with director Jeffrey Schwarz for Towleroad. NR: I was a huge fan of The Celluloid Closet but I didn’t actually know that much about Vito as a person....