A handful of awards season frontrunners is starting to emerge with the announcement today of the IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists.
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Kicking off the nomination season, ‘Fire Of Love’ with seven and ‘Good Night Oppy’ with six lead all comers in nominations for the 7th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards.
Both are nominated in the marquee Best Documentary Feature category and also will square off against each other for Best Director, Music Score, Editing, Narration, and Science/Nature docu. ‘Fire Of Love’ which is the adventure love story of a pair of Volcano hunters and scientists also is a contender for Best Archival docu. ‘Oppy’ which comes from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin and Amazon Studios, with special effects via Industrial Light & Magic has been on the Fall fest circuit and will open in theatres November 4 before streaming on Amazon three weeks later. It chronicles the 14+ Mars Rover mission and is a tear-jerking story that plays like a cross between The Martian and Wall-E.‘Fire Of Love’ has been in theatrical release from National Georgraphic Films and NEON which picked it up after a Sundance debut.
Other nominees for Best Docu Feature are Hulu’s Aftershock; The Automat; Netflix’s The Descendant; Briarcliff Entertainment’s Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down; HBO’s The Janes; HBO/NEON’s David Bowie docu Moonage Daydream; HBO, CNN, and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Navalny, and Apple TV+’s Sidney Poitier biodoc Sidney which recently premiered at Toronto.
Films earning three or more nominations include The Automat, The Janes, Moonage Daydream, Sidney, Three Minutes: A Lengthening; Navalny; The Beatles: Get Back; George Carlin’s American Dream; Descendant; Lucy And Desi; Our Great National Parks; The Territory; Cow;
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A handful of awards season frontrunners is starting to emerge with the announcement today of the IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists.
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BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE“Aftershock” (Hulu)“The Automat” (A Slice of Pie Productions)“Descendant” (Netflix)“Fire of Love” (National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon)“Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down” (Briarcliff Entertainment)“Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)“The Janes” (HBO)“Moonage Daydream” (HBO/Neon)“Navalny” (HBO/CNN/Warner Bros. Pictures)“Sidney” (Apple TV+)BEST DIRECTORJudd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio – “George Carlin’s American Dream” (HBO)Margaret Brown – “Descendant” (Netflix)Sara Dosa – “Fire of Love” (National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon)Reginald Hudlin – “Sidney” (Apple TV+)Brett Morgen – “Moonage Daydream” (HBO/Neon)Laura Poitras – “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (HBO/Neon)Daniel Roher – “Navalny” (HBO/CNN/Warner Bros.
Clayton Davis The Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced its nominees where Sara Dosa’s lava-fueled love story “Fire of Love” led the field with seven nominations including best documentary feature and director. Co-distributed by National Geographic and Neon, the film’s Ryan White’s “Good Night Oppy,” the moving reflection on the Mars rovers, received a hearty six-nom tally including editing and score. “This year’s nominees prove that documentaries of all lengths and formats are advancing nonfiction media like never before,” said Christopher Campbell, Co-President of the Critics Choice Association Documentary Branch.
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