» Read discussion on Best Documentary 06/30/11 After over 50 international festivals and more than 10 international prizes including two Jury Grand Prix, two Best Documentary, a Qantas Award for editing and the prestigious Leipziger Ring award, There Once was an Island: The Henua e Nnoho by rising NZ director ...
03/28/11 Best Use of Photography: No winner. Best Producer: No winner. Best Documentary or Series: Brandon Gobel and Allison Latos, WTOV-TV, "Heroin: The Ohio Valley's Problem"; Lauren Keeling, WTAP-TV, "Get Out Alive."
03/11/11 Jill Orschel's 10-minute 2009 short film "Sister Wife" is still on the film-festival circuit.Earlier this week, it won Best Documentary Short during
03/09/11 "Inside Job" (PG-13, 120 minutes): Fresh off its Academy Awards win as Best Documentary, "Inside Job" is filmmaker Charles Ferguson's expose about the recent financial meltdown and its roots in an incestuous world of investors, journalists, academics and politicians. Sleek and purposely infuriating, the film lays out in methodical and ...
03/07/11 Covering the gamut: the Academy's choice for Best Documentary lays bare the real scandal behind the 2008 financial meltdown, and a new installation of the Jackass franchise asks, How can 3-D make these things more cringe inducing? These and a...
02/28/11 An Oscar nominated film that got a lot of attention in the Southern Tier did not win the Best Documentary award Sunday night. Gasland the doc by Josh Fox portrays the filmmakers' quest to learn if hydrofracking is safe. While the film has been a big hit with opponents of gas drilling, the business documentary "Inside Job" won the award in Hollywood Monday night.
02/23/11 Restrepo , Inside Job, Wasteland , Exit Through the Gift Shop and Gasland are up for Oscars. But some early favorites, like Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for Superman, were left off the list. Bob Mondello, NPR's arts critic, talks about what academy members look for in the nominees for Best Documentary.
02/22/11 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be announced this Sunday night, where we'll find out if "Exit Through the Gift Shop," "Gasland," "Inside Job," "Restrepo," or "Waste Land" will claim the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. Before that happens, we've put together a second group of past nominees and winners in that category for indieWIRE's curation of Hulu's Documentaries page. EDITOR'S NOTE ...
02/08/11 With the 83rd Annual Academy Awards coming later this month, we decided to take a two-part look back at some past nominees and winners in the Best Documentary Feature category for indieWIRE's curation of Hulu's Documentaries page. As a special bonus, this week's edition also features free access to one of the five current nominees! EDITOR'S NOTE: "indieWIRE @ Hulu Docs" is a regular column ...
11/17/10 Mike Gordon? Yeah, you know him as the bass master for jam legends Phish. But Gordon has made a name for himself outside the Vermont-based quartet with a host of collaborations (notably with Leo Kottke, Mickey Hart, The Benevento-Russo Duo), an award winning filmmaking career (his film Rising Low won Best Documentary at the 2002 Newport International Film Festival) and as an author.
08/19/10 Filmmakers Roger Ross Williams is shoved aside by Elinor Burkett while accepting the Best Documentary Short award for "Music By Prudence" onstage during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California.
06/06/10 Associated Press - June 6, 2010 3:45 PM ET Best Use of Photography: No Winner. Best Producer: No Entries. Best Documentary or Series: (1st) Leslie Barrett, WTAP-TV,...
05/13/10 Charles Hambleton and Louie Psihoyos with their San Diego Film Critics award for Best Documentary for 'The Cove.' Photos by Diana Saenger Three prominent filmmakers Louie Psihoyos, Charles Hambleton and Alan Edward Bell journeyed to San Diego last week to receive awards from the San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS). Psihoyos made his Oscar-winning debut into filmmaking last year with the ...
01/16/10 A top story from this week. Anvil, the Canadian heavy metal band whose "Cinderella" story, "Anvil! The Story of Anvil," is nominated for a Critics Choice Movie Award in the category of Best Documentary, will travel to Los Angeles to attend the awards presentation
01/12/10 Anvil, the Canadian heavy metal band whose "Cinderella" story, "Anvil! The Story of Anvil," is nominated for a Critics Choice Movie Award in the category of Best Documentary, will travel to Los Angeles to attend the awards presentation
10/20/09 HOLLYWOOD, CA--(Marketwire - October 20, 2009) - Big Screen Entertainment Group ( PINKSHEETS : BSEG ) is proud to announce that its new documentary, "William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet," has won the Best Documentary award at the prestigious Marbella International Film Festival in Marbella, Spain. "Gonzo Ballet" won over an impressive field of documentaries from all over the world. The film received ... | 
