‘The Capote Tapes’ Director Ebs Burnough On Honoring the Man Behind the Legend
When you hear Truman Capote's name, you already have an image in your mind of the literary icon. He was ...
Tag: Best Documentary Feature
Podcast: Academy Award Nominee Pippa Ehrlich Discusses ‘My Octopus Teacher’
It is hard to imagine accomplishing more with a feature film debut than Pippa Ehrlich did this year. Her exceptional ...
As Hollywood Pulls Further Left, Conservative Media is on the Rise
I had heard that the Daily Wire, the website started by Ben Shapiro, was starting a new media channel that ...
‘Crip Camp’ Filmmakers Newnham and Lebrecht Revisit Their Sundance Hit in Honor of International Day of Persons With Disabilities
In anticipation for International Day of Persons With Disabilities, Crip Camp filmmakers Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht speak with Awards ...
Oscar Nominee Reactions!
Check back throughout the day for more reactions from this year's nominees! “I’m honored that our work on The Irishman ...
Matt Morton on Giving ‘Apollo 11’ an Authentic Musical Journey
There have been many narrative films and documentaries about the United States' efforts to get to the moon, but nothing ...
Alex Gibney’s ‘Citizen K’ is Terrifying In Its Relevance
The Academy Award-winning director talks to Joey Moser about his incendiary documentary, Citizen K. Director Alex Gibney's latest documentary made ...
159 Documentaries Submitted for the Oscars
And here they are: The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are: “Advocate” “After Parkland” “The All-Americans” “Always in Season” ...
IDA Announces its 35th Annual Shortlists for Features and Shorts
As usual, the pack of docs is insane. It will be extremely hard to reduce them to 5. I half ...
Interview: Quincy Jones and Director Alan Hicks Talk “Quincy
How do you capture Quincy Jones' legacy? How do you cover seven decades of music? Seems like an impossible task, ...
Interview: Randy Barbato Shines A Light On When The Beat Drops
World of Wonder Producer Randy Barbato On Working with Jamal Sims for "When The Beat Drops"
Feature Documentaries Transcend Once Again at the Oscars
For the past several years I have run a series on my website, Awards Wiz, called "27 Days of Oscar." ...
15 Documentary Features Advance in Oscar Race
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” Mitten Media, Motto Pictures, Kartemquin Educational Films and WGBH/FRONTLINE “Chasing Coral,” Exposure Labs in partnership with ...
Interview: Evgeny Afineevsky’s Cries from Syria Is a Story of Hope and Survival
Evgeny Afineevsky is sitting with me in a Hollywood restaurant on an October day in LA that feels as hot ...
Kedi, Jane and Many Others Nominated for Documentary by the Critics Choice
Have you seen Kedi? The documentary about the cats of Istanbul and the people who care for them? If not, ...
TIFF Review – Gaga: Five Foot Two Is A Raw and Emotional Look At the World Behind Lady Gaga
It's been a mere nine years since Lady Gaga burst onto the scene with the release of Just Dance and ...
Documentary Feature, More Accessible and Necessary Than Ever
My readers and friends know that I have a very predictable pattern when it comes to Oscar. I like to ...
Interview: Keith Maitland Recreates America’s First Campus Mass-Shooting in Tower
August 1, 1966, saw the first in what would eventually mushroom into dozens and dozens of horrific school shootings in ...
Interview: Inside the Murky World of the Ivory Trade in Netflix’s The Ivory Game with Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson
On December 31, 2016 China announced it was shutting down the world's largest ivory market. Although vast profits for the ...
DGA Announces Five Documentary Nominees
And they are: The Eagle Huntress OJ Made in America Weiner I am Not Your Negro Life, Animated DOCUMENTARY The ...
