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Online Film Critics Society Award For Best Documentary Film
The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best documentary of the year. Winners * 1997: ''4 Little Girls'' * 1998: '' The Big One'' * 1999: ''Buena Vista Social Club'' * 2000: ''The Filth and the Fury'' * 2001: '' Startup.com'' * 2002: ''Bowling for Columbine'' * 2003: '' Capturing the Friedmans'' * 2004: '' Fahrenheit 9/11'' * 2005: ''Grizzly Man'' * 2006: ''An Inconvenient Truth'' * 2007: '' The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters'' * 2008: ''Man on Wire'' * 2009: ''Anvil! The Story of Anvil'' * 2010: ''Exit Through the Gift Shop'' * 2011: '' Cave of Forgotten Dreams'' * 2012: ''This Is Not a Film'' * 2013: '' The Act of Killing'' * 2014: '' Life Itself'' * 2015: '' The Look of Silence'' * 2016: '' O.J.: Made in America'' * 2017: ''Faces Places'' * 2018: '' Won't You Be My Neighbor?'' **'' Free Solo'' **''Minding the Gap'' **'' Shirkers'' **''Three Identical Strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Film Critics Society
The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is an international professional association of online film journalists, historians and scholars who publish their work on the World Wide Web. The organization was founded in January 1997 by Harvey S. Karten, an early online critic who discovered that membership in the New York Film Critics Circle was open only to journalists working for newspapers and magazines. Online critics have generally found it difficult to gain acceptance for their work, and one role of the OFCS is to provide professional recognition to the most prolific and successful online critics. Since 1997, the OFCS has given out annual awards that recognize the best films in about seventeen categories. These awards are noted in the established print media such as ''Variety'' and ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and are included in their annual speculation about the ultimate winners of the Academy Awards. Membership Critics whose primary media affiliation is a print publication, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Act Of Killing
''The Act of Killing'' ( id, Jagal, meaning "Butcher") is a 2012 documentary film about individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966. The film is directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and co-directed by Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian. It is a Danish-British-Norwegian co-production, presented by Final Cut for Real in Denmark and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen. The executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Joram ten Brink, and Andre Singer. It is a Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) project of the University of Westminster. ''The Act of Killing'' won the 2013 European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. It also won best documentary at the 67th BAFTA awards. In accepting the award, Oppenheimer said that the United States and the United Kingdom have "collective responsibility" for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honeyland (2019 Film)
''Honeyland'' ( mk, Медена земја, transliterated: ''Medena zemja'') is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. It portrays the life of Hatidže Muratova, a loner beekeeper of wild bees who lives in the remote mountain village of Bekirlija and follows her lifestyle before and after neighbors move in nearby. The film was initially planned as a short film documenting the region surrounding the river Bregalnica but its area of focus changed when the directors met Hatidže. ''Honeyland'' received its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on 28 January and it has grossed $1,315,037. Filming of ''Honeyland'' lasted three years, and 400 hours of footage was filmed. Several environmental topics are explored, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and exploitation of natural resources. The directors primarily focused on the visual aspects and wanted to portray humanity's balance with the ecosystem thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Sama
''For Sama'' () is a 2019 documentary film produced and narrated by Waad Al-Kateab, and directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. The film focuses on Waad Al-Kateab's journey as a journalist and rebel in the Syrian uprising. Her husband is Hamza Al-Kateab, one of the few doctors left in Aleppo, and they raise their daughter Sama Al-Kateab during the Syrian Civil War. The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest festival on March 11, 2019, where it won the Documentary Feature Competition's Grand Jury and Audience Awards. ''For Sama'' made history when it was nominated in four categories in the BAFTA awards, making it the most nominated documentary ever. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards. Premise The film shows Waad al-Kateab's life through five years in Aleppo, Syria before and during The Battle of Aleppo. An 18-year-old economics student at the University of Aleppo when the uprising began in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Factory
''American Factory'' () is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, about Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine, a city near Dayton, Ohio, that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant. The film had its festival premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It is distributed by Netflix and is the first film acquired by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground Productions. It won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Overview In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a factory in an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America. Production Filmed from February 2015 until the end of 2017, Reichert and Bognar were granted filming access by Fuyao at both their Ohio and Chinese plant locations. They were inspired to make this film as the events they aimed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo 11 (2019 Film)
''Apollo 11'' is a 2019 American documentary film edited, produced and directed by Todd Douglas Miller. It focuses on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the first spaceflight from which men walked on the Moon. The film consists solely of archival footage, including 70 mm film previously unreleased to the public, and does not feature narration, interviews or modern recreations. The Saturn V rocket, Apollo crew consisting of Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins, and Apollo program Earth-based mission operations engineers are prominently featured in the film. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2019, and was released theatrically in the United States by Neon on March 1, 2019. ''Apollo 11'' received acclaim from critics and grossed $15 million. The film won a leading five awards at the 4th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, including Best Documentary Feature. It also received five nominations at the 72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Identical Strangers
''Three Identical Strangers'' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Tim Wardle, about the lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, a set of identical triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families. Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes, and present-day interviews, it recounts how the triplet brothers discovered one another by chance in New York in 1980 at age 19, their public and private lives in the years that followed, and their eventual discovery that their adoption had been part of an undisclosed scientific "nature versus nurture" study of the development of genetically identical siblings raised in differing socioeconomic circumstances. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling. The film was a nominee in the Best Documentary category at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards. It was also on the shortlist of 15 films considered for the Academy Award for Best Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirkers
''Shirkers'' is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January and won the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, making her the second Singapore-born filmmaker after Kirsten Tan (''Pop Aye'', 2017) to win an award at the festival. It was also nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary. ''Shirkers'' was released on October 26, 2018, on Netflix. Synopsis In the summer of 1992, 19-year-old Sandi Tan, alongside friends Jasmine Ng and Sophia Siddique, as well as film teacher and mentor Georges Cardona, shot the independent film ''Shirkers'' in Singapore. After wrapping, Tan, Ng, and Siddique left the footage with Cardona as the trio went to study abroad for college. However, Cardona disappeared with the footage and the trio never saw him again; Tan did receive two brief, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minding The Gap
''Minding the Gap'' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Bing Liu (filmmaker), Bing Liu. It was produced by Liu and Diane Moy Quon through Kartemquin Films. It chronicles the lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by their love of skateboarding. The film received critical acclaim, winning the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards. Summary Bing Liu lives in Rockford, Illinois, Rockford, Illinois. He has two friends he met through skateboarding: Keire Johnson and Zack Mulligan. As they reach adulthood, Zack becomes a father and stops skating in order to become a roofer and support his family. Keire supports himself with a job as a dishwasher. Over the course of the film all three friends reveal that they grew up in abusive homes. Zack and his partner Nina begin to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Solo
Free solo climbing, or free soloing, is a form of technical ice or rock climbing where the climbers (or ''free soloists'') climb alone without ropes, harnesses or other protective equipment, forcing them to rely entirely on their own individual preparation, strength, and skill. Free soloing is the most dangerous form of climbing, and unlike bouldering, free soloists climb above safe heights, where a fall can very likely be fatal. Though many climbers have attempted free soloing, it is considered "a niche of a niche" reserved for the sport's elite, which has led many practitioners to stardom within both the media and the sport of rock climbing. "Free solo" was originally a term of climber slang, but after the popularity of the Oscar-winning film '' Free Solo'', Merriam-Webster officially added the word to their English dictionary in September 2019. Public view Many climbing communities praise the ascents, while others have concerns regarding the danger involved and the message t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (film)
''Won't You Be My Neighbor?'' is a 2018 American documentary film about the life and guiding philosophy of Fred Rogers, the host and creator of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', directed by Morgan Neville. The trailer for the film debuted on what would have been Rogers's 90th birthday, March 20, 2018. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on June 8, 2018. It received acclaim from critics and audiences and grossed over $22 million, becoming the top-grossing biographical documentary ever produced and the 12th largest-grossing documentary ever produced. It was nominated for numerous awards, won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was chosen by ''Time'' magazine as one of its top ten films of 2018. Premise Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular children's television program ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''. Production One of the film's prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faces Places (film)
''Faces Places'' (french: Visages Villages) is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and JR. It was screened out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival where it won the L'Œil d'or award. The film follows Varda and JR traveling around rural France, creating portraits of the people they come across. It was released on 28 June 2017 in France and 6 October 2017 in the United States. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. The film was Varda's second-to-last work, preceding ''Varda by Agnès'' in 2019. Synopsis Varda and JR visit villages, small towns, and factories throughout France to meet communities of people and create large portraits of them to plaster on the surroundings. The process brings the two artists together as friends. Varda repeatedly refers to ''Les fiancés du pont MacDonald'', a short film she made with Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina in 1961. The film revolves around a young man, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
