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TV Academy: No more double dipping with the Oscars

FREE SOLO (NatGeo) The Television Academy has ruled that it will no longer allow Oscar-nominated films to compete for an… Read More

May 7, 2020

FINAL 2019 Oscar Predictions: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Free Solo (NatGeo) A complicated category in a banner year for documentaries with precursor wins going to films not even… Read More

February 19, 2019

Cinema Audio Society (CAS) winners: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Free Solo,’ Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

The musical biopic of rock band queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, the death defying documentary Free Solo… Read More

February 17, 2019

IDA Nominations: ‘Minding the Gap, ‘Free Solo;’ ‘RBG,’ ‘Three Identical Strangers’ snubbed

Bing Liu's Minding the Gap (Hulu) The nominations for the 34th Independent Documentary Association IDA) awards were announced today with… Read More

October 24, 2018

2019 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (October)

The predictions for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and Foreign Language Film have been live for a month (you can always… Read More

October 16, 2018

‘Free Solo,’ ‘Minding the Gap,’ Wild Wild Country’ lead Critics’ Choice Documentary nominations

Free Solo (National Geographic Films) The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) and the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) collectively known… Read More

October 16, 2018

Frontrunner Friday – Annapurna in flux; category changes

After last week's drops of trailers for Vice and The Mule, this week's Frontrunner Friday brings us a few changes… Read More

October 12, 2018

Alexander Valley Film Festival: The Little Festival That Could

Fall brings us three things every year like clockwork; Daylight Savings Time, pumpkin spice lattes and film festivals. It seems… Read More

October 5, 2018

Telluride Film Festival to world premiere ‘Boy Erased,’ ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?,’ ‘The Front Runner’ and more

The Telluride Film Festival may only reveal its lineup the day before it begins but intrepid festival watchers can largely… Read More

August 30, 2018

TIFF Docs programmer Thom Powers on this year’s slate and the rise in popularity of documentary film

Thom Powers has been the documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival since 2006. He oversaw TIFF’s Mavericks conversation series for nine… Read More

August 27, 2018

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