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2nd Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
The 2nd Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were presented on November 2, 2017, in Brooklyn, New York, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking and non-fiction television. The nominees were announced on October 11, 2017. Winners and nominees Films by multiple nominations and wins The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: See also *90th Academy Awards *70th Primetime Emmy Awards The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1, 2017, until May 31, 2018, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The ceremony was held live on September 17, 2018, at the Mi ... References {{reflist 2017 film awards Critics' Choice Documentary Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough,2010 Gazetteer for New York State United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 18, 2016. with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn is located on the western portion of Long Island and shares a border with the borough of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of |
Kedi (2016 Film)
''Kedi'' (, Turkish for "Cat") is a 2016 Turkish documentary film directed by Ceyda Torun about the many stray cats that live in Istanbul. It premiered at the !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival on 21 February 2016 before being given a North American theatrical release on 10 February 2017. It debuted on the YouTube Red streaming service on 10 May 2017. It was released on DVD in the U.S. on 14 November 2017. The film received critical acclaim, and grossed over $5 million. ''Time'' magazine listed it as one of its top ten films of 2017. Synopsis Thousands of street cats live in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, as they have for centuries. Some are wild and fend for themselves, while others are tamer and are cared for by people. ''Kedi'' depicts these cats, and includes many interviews of the people who interact with them. It focuses on seven of the cats, who are named Sarı, Duman, Bengü, Aslan Parçası, Gamsız, Psikopat, and Deniz. Production The cinematographers c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Taylor Brodsky
Irene Taylor (born June 15, 1970) is a Peabody and Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated director and producer whose documentaries have shown theatrically, at film festivals and stream worldwide. Early life Taylor is a CODA ( Child of Deaf Adults). Taylor graduated from New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Career Taylor began her documentary career in photojournalism. Her first feature documentary, HEAR AND NOW, a documentary memoir about her deaf parents, won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2007, a Peabody Award and numerous awards at festivals around the world. It was also nominated by the Producer's Guild of America in 2008 for Documentary of the Year. Her HBO feature documentary BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN received two 2017 Critics' Choice Award nominations, for Best Director and Best Documentary, and was also nominated for a 2018 Emmy. Taylor's previous credits include several theatrically released short films, all which aired on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski-Yang is an American filmmaker. He is best known for both directing and producing the Emmy Award-winning documentary '' Chasing Ice'' (2012) and '' Chasing Coral'' (2017) and for directing '' The Social Dilemma'' about the damaging societal impact of social media. Life and career Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, Orlowski-Yang attended Stuyvesant High School where he served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, '' The Spectator''. At the age of 18, Orlowski-Yang moved to California to study anthropology at Stanford University. In his senior year at Stanford, he joined environmental photographer James Balog's Extreme Ice Survey, a time-lapse photography project monitoring glacier retreat around the world. Hired first as the team's videographer, he eventually went on to direct the documentary '' Chasing Ice'' based on Balog's work. The feature-length documentary received international acclaim, screening on all seven continents and capturing more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Nichol
Doug Nichol is an American filmmaker and commercials/music video director. Biography A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, he started his career as a cinematographer working with David Bowie, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and U2 and was director of photography on Madonna's ''Truth or Dare'' documentary. He has also directed campaigns for Levi's, Mercedes-Benz, Heineken, Virgin Mobile, Smirnoff, Toyota, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson, Peugeot, and American Express among others. His commercial for Levi's, involving a hamster, received the largest number of complaints to the Independent Television Commission at the time. He won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Sting's '' Ten Summoner's Tales'' and also received two other Grammy nominations for work with Aerosmith and NKOTB. He has won several MTV awards including Best Rock Video for Aerosmith’s "Pink". His music video for "This Is Hardcore" by Pulp has consistently been listed as one of the top music video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Morrison (director)
Bill Morrison (born November 17, 1965) is an American, New York–based filmmaker and artist. His films often combine rare archival material set to contemporary music, and have been screened in theaters, cinemas, museums, galleries, and concert halls around the world. Early life and career Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Reed College from 1983 to 1985, and graduated with a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in 1989. He received the President's Citation from Cooper Union in 2016. Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, October 2014 – March 2015. He is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has received the Alpert Awards in the Arts, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2003). His theatrical projection design with Ridge Theater has been recognized with two Bessie Awards, and an Obie Award. Morrison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Heineman
Matthew Heineman is an American filmmaker. The Sundance Film Festival called Heineman "one of the most talented and exciting documentary filmmakers working today", while Anne Thompson (film journalist), Anne Thompson of IndieWire, ''Indiewire'' wrote that Heineman is a "respected and gifted filmmaker who combines gonzo fearlessness with empathetic sensitivity." He recently received a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First Time Feature Film Director from the Directors Guild of America for his narrative debut ''A Private War'', making Heineman and Martin Scorsese the only filmmakers ever nominated for both narrative and documentary Directors Guild of America Award, DGA Awards. ''A Private War'' stars Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander, Stanley Tucci, and Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike as legendary war reporter Marie Colvin. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival before being released nationwide by Aviron Pictures. It was a The New York Times, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Strange Trip
''Long Strange Trip'' is a 2017 American documentary film about the rock band the Grateful Dead. It premiered on January 23, 2017, at the Sundance Film Festival. It had a one-night only nationwide screening on May 25, 2017, and a week-long limited theatrical release in New York and Los Angeles starting on May 26. The film was split into a six-part miniseries, which became available on Amazon Prime Video on June 2, 2017. ''Long Strange Trip'' was directed by Amir Bar-Lev, and has a running time of almost four hours. Martin Scorsese was one of the executive producers. Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, was one of the producers. The film features newly conducted interviews with living band members and friends including Bob Weir and his wife Natascha, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, John Perry Barlow, Donna Godchaux, Dennis McNally, Barbara "Brigid" Meier, Nick Paumgarten, Steve Silberman, and Alan Trist. A soundtrack album was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Bar-Lev
Amir Bar-Lev (born 1972) is an American film director, producer and writer from Berkeley, California. Bar-Lev is noted for his work in directing documentary films. He has directed such films as ''Fighter'', a documentary film released August 24, 2001. The film received a Special Jury Citation in the 2000 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The 2007 documentary film ''My Kid Could Paint That'' was directed by Bar-Lev, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007. He also served as co-producer of the 2009 Oscar nominated documentary ''Trouble the Water.'' Bar-Lev also directed ''The Tillman Story'', which premiered as a Domestic Documentary Finalist at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Bar-Lev directed Happy Valley, a film about the Penn State Jerry Sandusky Scandal. His most recent film, Long Strange Trip, explored the Grateful Dead. Bar-Lev has taught documentary filmmaking at New York University. He lives in Brookl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930) is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and theater director. His work is "devoted primarily to exploring American institutions". He has been called "one of the most important and original filmmakers working today". Life and career Wiseman was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Gertrude Leah (née Kotzen) and Jacob Leo Wiseman. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1951, and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1954. He spent 1954 to 1956 serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.FREDERICK WISEMAN’S BASIC TRAINING . Retrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeny Afineevsky
Evgeny Mikhailovich Afineevsky (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Афинеевский; born October 21, 1972) is an Israeli-American film director, producer and cinematographer. He has an Academy Award nomination and Emmy nominations for his documentary Winter on Fire. Afineevsky resides in the United States. Early life Afineevsky was born in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on October 21, 1972 to a Russian-Jewish family. In the early 1990s, Afineevsky became an Israeli citizen and served in the Israeli Defence Forces. As he became involved in the film industry, he relocated to Los Angeles in the United States through connections to Menahem Golan, living there since 1999. Afineevsky is openly homosexual. Career Early Israeli and American works Afineevsky's filmmaking career began as a teenager when he won the First Prize for Best Documentary in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, and was invited to participate in the Black S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critics' Choice Documentary Award For Best Director ...
The Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Director is one of the awards presented annually by Critics Choice Association since the awards debuted in 2016. Winners and nominees 2010s 2020s Multiple nominations References {{reflist External linksOfficial website Best Director Awards established in 2016 Critics' Choice Documentary Awards The Critics' Choice Documentary Awards are accolades that are presented by the Critics Choice Association to honour the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking and non-fiction television. They were established in 2016, and the first ceremony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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