Critics Choice Documentary Awards Nominations Announced!

GRAMMY nominations will be announced on Tuesday, courtesy of Recording Academy Interim President Harvey Mason Jr., as well as some special guests, ahead of the ceremony, currently set for a Jan.

Today brought the inaugural nominations for the Critics Choice Super Awards. As a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, seeing this list of nominees is a welcome reminder that there’s still been a wonderful assortment of films released in 2020.

The nominations for the 2021 Critics Choice Super Awards are here!

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticAfter creating the Critics Choice Awards  for both movies and television achievements,  plus spinoff shows for the best in Documentaries , and Reality TV, the Critics Choice Association today announced nominees for their latest awards show venture, the Critics Choice Super Awards.  Designed to honor popular forms of entertainment for both movies and series, the virtual pre-recorded television presentation honoring Superhero, Science Fiction/Fantasy,

Also Read: 'Dick Johnson Is Dead' Wins Top Prize at Critics Choice Documentary AwardsIn addition, the early timeline for the nominations meant that some late-2020 films that might well have been major contenders, including George Clooney’s sci-fi epic “The Midnight Sky” and Patty Jenkins’ Christmas Day release “Wonder Woman 1984,” could not be considered.The result is a roster of nominees that is conspicuously missing big superhero or action flicks, filled instead with early-year theatrical

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCate Blanchett-produced “Stateless” and Shannon Murphy’s feature directing debut “Babyteeth” dominated the nominations for the Australian Film Institute-Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts’ AACTA Awards.Refugee drama series “Stateless” earned 18 nomination in the TV category, including best telefilm or miniseries, an acting nomination for Jai Courtney, and multiple screenplay and directing nominations.

The Last Of Us Part II and Ghost Of Tsushima leading in pack.Numerous heavy hitting titles of 2020 have been nominated across a variety of categories and were carefully selected by a global jury of more than 95 media publications and influencer outlets.The highest award is the Game of the Year category which sees Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Doom Eternal, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Ghost Of Tsushima, Hades, and The Last Of Us Part II all up for nomination.The Last Of Us Part II is signalling to

Today, the 2020 Critics Choice Documentary Awards were handed out. The fifth annual non-fiction offshoot of the Critics Choice Awards, it’s obviously given out by the Critics Choice Association, of which I’m a member.

The winners of the 2020 Critics Choice Documentary Awards were unveiled Monday morning, with Dick Johnson is Dead taking the top prize of best documentary feature as well as best director for Kirsten Johnson. The other film winning two awards is My Octopus Teacher, which won best cinematography and best science/nature documentary.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticDick Johnson Is Dead, Netflix’s personal documentary exploring a daughter’s look into the decline of her aging father, took top honors from the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards for Best Documentary Feature as well as Best Director for Kirsten Johnson.The awards, which were spread out among several winners, saw no single docu dominate, and in fact another Netflix film, My Octopus Teacher, was the only other film to win more than one trophy, taking

Jordan Moreau The fifth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced the 2020 winners Monday morning, honoring “Dick Johnson Is Dead” for best documentary feature as well as the film’s Kirsten Johnson for best director.The film focuses on Richard Johnson, the director’s father, who suffers from dementia and imagines different ways in which he could die with a darkly comedic tone.

Also Read: Oscars Documentary Race Gets Bigger, More Competitive With New Batch of 33 Films“Crip Camp,” “Gunda” and “Mr. SOUL!” went into the show tied for the most nominations, with five.In the first four years of the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which was spun off from the Critics Choice Awards as a separate show in 2016, the winner has gone on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature only once, with “O.J.: Made in America” in 2016.

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Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticThe show date is staying the same, but the Producers Guild of America is altering several other deadlines and nominee announcements on the calendar for its 32nd annual PGA Awards.The PGA awards ceremony remains on Wednesday, March 24, but the guild will now move up announcement of nominees for Documentary Feature Film from February 11 to February 2.

Is awards season actually happening? Skeptics may still think it’s pointless due to a theatrical distribution system ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, but things are moving forward. And, a small bit of normalcy returned as IFP announced the 2020 Gotham Awards nominations this morning LISTEN: John Magaro never ate an oily cake making “First Cow” [Podcast] “First Cow” led all films with three nominations including Best Feature, Best Actor (John Magaro) and Best Screenplay.

Also Read: 'First Cow' Film Review: Kelly Reichardt Crafts Another Quiet Masterwork About the Pacific NorthwestNominees in the new Best International Feature category included Maimouna Doucoure’s “Cuties,” which led to protests by conservative critics when it aired on Netflix.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFirst Cow collected four Gotham Awards nominations to lead the field in an awards year altered by COVID-19.Kelly Reichardt’s period drama, released by A24, is up for feature, directing, screenplay and acting awards. See the full list of nominees below.The Gothams, which will be held January 11, typically kick off Oscar season in November.

Eli Countryman The Independent Filmmaker Project will announce nominations for the Gotham Awards on Thursday at 7:00 a.m. PT, live from Cipriani Wall Street.The nominations will be announced ahead of the awards show’s Jan.

Chris Willman Music WriterH.E.R. looks to be the VIP at BET’s annual Soul Train Awards, racking up a leading eight nominations going into the ceremony, which will be telecast at the close of Thanksgiving weekend, Nov.