Ava DuVernay (Courtesy: Kevork Djansezian/Reuters)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
Let’s talk about race in this year’s Oscar race, shall we? Three of the top films up for best documentary feature this year — 13th (Netflix), I Am Not Your Negro (Magnolia), and O.J.: Made in America (Espn) — all deal with the black experience in the United States through various lenses. These movies, all favorites to make the official list of five nominees that will battle it out for the big win, drive home the fact that this is still a very important and is one of the Academy’s favorite topics to highlight — but has that always been the case?
First, let’s take a more in-depth look at what these three leading docs deal center around. Ava DuVernay’s 13th provides an in-depth look at the prison system and how the nation’s history of racial...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
Let’s talk about race in this year’s Oscar race, shall we? Three of the top films up for best documentary feature this year — 13th (Netflix), I Am Not Your Negro (Magnolia), and O.J.: Made in America (Espn) — all deal with the black experience in the United States through various lenses. These movies, all favorites to make the official list of five nominees that will battle it out for the big win, drive home the fact that this is still a very important and is one of the Academy’s favorite topics to highlight — but has that always been the case?
First, let’s take a more in-depth look at what these three leading docs deal center around. Ava DuVernay’s 13th provides an in-depth look at the prison system and how the nation’s history of racial...
- 11/16/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
‘O.J.: Made in America’ (Courtesy: Espn)
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The worlds of the big screens and the small screens are merging for documentaries — and with that comes a debate over the Academy paying these works attention. Where is the line drawn between those that qualify for an Emmy, an Oscar, or both? Let’s take a look at the 89th Academy Awards race and what works that will compete for glory on February 26, 2017.
Our own Scott Feinberg has evaluated the landscape after the New York Film Festival wrapped up and, in the projected shortlist in the best documentary feature category, there are six films that are blurring the line between the mediums: O.J.: Made in America (Espn), Gleason (Amazon), Weiner (Showtime), 13th (Netflix), Miss Sharon Jones! (Starz), and The Ivory Game (Netflix). There are others, in the possibilities and long shots column, that follow suit.
The official short...
By: Carson Blackwelder
Managing Editor
The worlds of the big screens and the small screens are merging for documentaries — and with that comes a debate over the Academy paying these works attention. Where is the line drawn between those that qualify for an Emmy, an Oscar, or both? Let’s take a look at the 89th Academy Awards race and what works that will compete for glory on February 26, 2017.
Our own Scott Feinberg has evaluated the landscape after the New York Film Festival wrapped up and, in the projected shortlist in the best documentary feature category, there are six films that are blurring the line between the mediums: O.J.: Made in America (Espn), Gleason (Amazon), Weiner (Showtime), 13th (Netflix), Miss Sharon Jones! (Starz), and The Ivory Game (Netflix). There are others, in the possibilities and long shots column, that follow suit.
The official short...
- 10/20/2016
- by Carson Blackwelder
- Scott Feinberg
By the time Ezra Edelman’s “O.J.: Made In America” aired on Espn in June, receiving near-universal acclaim from critics, Espn Films—which produced the documentary as part of the network’s popular “30 for 30” series—was already angling for attention from an Academy that, on the face of it, has nothing to do with TV. With one-week qualifying engagements at New York’s Cinema Village and Los Angeles’ Laemmle Monica Film Center, the exhaustive five-part portrait of O.J. Simpson’s life and times entered the campaign for Oscar.
It’s not alone. Of the eight other films Indiewire identifies as frontrunners in the race for Best Documentary Feature besides “O.J.: Made in America,” several have prominent connections to TV networks or streaming services: “Command and Control” (PBS); “Gleason” (Amazon); “Into the Inferno” (Netflix); “The Music of Strangers” (HBO); “Weiner” (Showtime); and “Zero Days” (Showtime). More than ever before, the resources...
It’s not alone. Of the eight other films Indiewire identifies as frontrunners in the race for Best Documentary Feature besides “O.J.: Made in America,” several have prominent connections to TV networks or streaming services: “Command and Control” (PBS); “Gleason” (Amazon); “Into the Inferno” (Netflix); “The Music of Strangers” (HBO); “Weiner” (Showtime); and “Zero Days” (Showtime). More than ever before, the resources...
- 9/21/2016
- by Anne Thompson and Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
By the time Ezra Edelman’s “O.J.: Made In America” aired on Espn in June, receiving near-universal acclaim from critics, Espn Films—which produced the documentary as part of the network’s popular “30 for 30” series—was already angling for attention from an Academy that, on the face of it, has nothing to do with TV. With one-week qualifying engagements at New York’s Cinema Village and Los Angeles’ Laemmle Monica Film Center, the exhaustive five-part portrait of O.J. Simpson’s life and times entered the campaign for Oscar.
It’s not alone. Of the eight other films Indiewire identifies as frontrunners in the race for Best Documentary Feature besides “O.J.: Made in America,” several have prominent connections to TV networks or streaming services: “Command and Control” (PBS); “Gleason” (Amazon); “Into the Inferno” (Netflix); “The Music of Strangers” (HBO); “Weiner” (Hulu); and “Zero Days” (Showtime). More than ever before, the resources...
It’s not alone. Of the eight other films Indiewire identifies as frontrunners in the race for Best Documentary Feature besides “O.J.: Made in America,” several have prominent connections to TV networks or streaming services: “Command and Control” (PBS); “Gleason” (Amazon); “Into the Inferno” (Netflix); “The Music of Strangers” (HBO); “Weiner” (Hulu); and “Zero Days” (Showtime). More than ever before, the resources...
- 9/21/2016
- by Anne Thompson and Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
Sad to share the news that documentary filmmaker Danny Anker died Monday morning of lymphoma, at the age of 50. He was an Oscar-nominated director (Best Documentary Feature) for "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" (2000), which was a selection of the Sundance Film Festival and won a Primetime Emmy in 2001. Many of his other productions were Emmy nominated and/or screened at prestigious film festivals, such as "Icebound" (2012). He is perhaps best known for "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust," which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2004 Hamptons Film Festival. Narrated by Gene Hackman, it featured interviews with directors including Steven Spielberg. Anker was in post-production on "Sidney Lumet: The Moral Lens," and had directed nine other documentaries, including "Voices Unbound: The Story of the Freedom Writers" (winner at the 2010 Valladolid Film Festival), "Through My Eyes: The Charlie Kelman Story" (2010), as well as...
- 4/22/2014
- by Annette Insdorf
- Thompson on Hollywood
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