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5th Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
The 5th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were presented on November 16, 2020, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking and non-fiction television; due to the COVID-19 pandemic the ceremony was held via online. The nominees were announced on October 26, 2020, with '' Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution'', '' Gunda'' and '' Mr. Soul!'' leading the nominations with five. Winners and nominees Films by multiple nominations and wins The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: See also *93rd Academy Awards References {{reflist 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 ... Critics' Choice Documentary Awards ...
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4th Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
The 4th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were presented on November 10, 2019. at the BRIC in Brooklyn, New York, honoring the finest achievements in documentary filmmaking and non-fiction television, the ceremony was hosted by Jonathan Scott. The nominees were announced in October 14, 2019, with ''The Biggest Little Farm'' leading the nominations with seven. Special awards At the ceremony, director Michael Apted received "The Landmark Award", and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was presented as the recipient for "The D A Pennebaker Award" (previously called the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award). Winners and nominees Films by multiple nominations and wins The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: See also *92nd Academy Awards *72nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards References {{reflist Critics' Choice Documentary Awards The Critics' Choice Documentary Awards are accolades that are presented by t ...
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The Social Dilemma
''The Social Dilemma'' is a 2020 American docudrama film directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. The documentary covers the negative social effects of social media and is interspersed by a dramatized narrative surrounding a family of five who are increasingly affected by problematic social media use. ''The Social Dilemma'' premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, on January 26, 2020, and was released on Netflix on September 9, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its message and use of interviews with established tech experts but criticized the narrative and lack of nuance in addressing technological problems. Synopsis ''The Social Dilemma'' covers the psychological underpinnings and manipulation techniques by which, it claims, social media and technology companies addict users. People's online activity is watched, tracked, and measured by these companies, who then ...
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (; born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and writer. He is best known for writing and presenting, in conjunction with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, the nine nature documentary series forming the ''Life'' Collection, a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on Earth. Attenborough was a senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. First becoming prominent as host of '' Zoo Quest'' in 1954, his filmography as writer, presenter and narrator has spanned eight decades; it includes ''Natural World'', '' Wildlife on One'', the ''Planet Earth'' franchise, '' The Blue Planet'' and its sequel. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black and white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Emmy Awards ...
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A Life On Our Planet
''A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future'' is a 2020 book by documentarian David Attenborough and director-producer Jonnie Hughes. It follows Attenborough's career as a presenter and natural historian, along with the decline in wildlife and rising carbon emissions during the period. Attenborough warns of the effects that climate change and biodiversity loss will have in the near future, and offers action which can be taken to prevent natural disaster. A companion book to the film '' David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet'', it was positively received by critics. Background '' David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet'' is a 2020 film by the documentarian and natural historian David Attenborough. Jonnie Hughes served as director and producer, as he has on Attenborough's documentaries since 2000. Initially scheduled for cinematic release on 16 April 2020, the film was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film premiered on 28 September 2020 in ci ...
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Critics' Choice Documentary Award For Best Narration
The Best Narration is one of the annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. The award is given to the narrator and writer. History It was first presented at the fourth ceremony to Bruce Springsteen for ''Western Stars''. Winners and nominees References See also *Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator External linksOfficial website {{Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best Narration Narration Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the ... Awards established in 2019 Voice acting awards ...
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Melissa Haizlip
Melissa Haizlip is an American film producer, director and writer most notable for her 2018 award-winning film, '' Mr. SOUL!''. Haizlip won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Documentary (Television or Motion Picture) for Mr. SOUL!. On June 6, 2022, Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman announced that Haizlip film Mr. Soul! won the Peabody Award for Best Documentary. Biography Haizlip was born in Boston, Massachusetts to educator Dr. Harold C. Haizlip and author Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, while both were attending graduate school at Harvard. She grew up in New York, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and Connecticut, where she later attended Yale University. Haizlip started her career in musical theater, performing professionally on Broadway in New York City, and in film and television in Los Angeles, before moving into film production in 1999. In 2009, Haizlip founded Shoes in the Bed Productions. In 2013, she produced the award-winning short film entitled, "Y ...
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Critics' Choice Documentary Award For Best First Documentary Feature
The Best First Documentary Feature is one of the annual 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 .... It is usually given to the director (or directors). The "first feature" designation is applied to the director. At the 9th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, the category was renamed to Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s). Winners and nominees 2010s 2020s References External linksOfficial website {{Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best First Documentary Feature Best First Documentary Feature Directorial debut film awards Awards established in 2016 ...
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Good Trouble
Good Trouble may refer to: * ''Good Trouble'' (album), a 1982 album by REO Speedwagon * ''Good Trouble'' (TV series), a 2019–2024 American drama series *'' John Lewis: Good Trouble'', a 2020 American biographical documentary film {{disambiguation ...
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Dawn Porter (filmmaker)
Dawn Porter is an American documentary film director, producer, and founder of production company Trilogy Films. Her documentaries have screened at The Sundance Film Festival and other festivals as well as on HBO, CNN, Netflix, Hulu, PBS and elsewhere. She has made biographical documentaries about a number of historical figures including Robert F. Kennedy, Vernon Jordan, and John Lewis and has collaborated with Oprah and Prince Harry. Early life and education Porter is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Swarthmore College (in 1988) and Georgetown University Law School. Through her mother's family, she is related to Paul Robeson. Career Porter served five years as a corporate litigator at BakerHostetler before she was hired as director of standards and practices at ABC News. While there, she met the Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, with whom she helped secure the rights to archival ABC footage for his 2015 Sundance documentary '' Best of En ...
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Nicole Newnham
Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the Academy Award, Oscar-nominated movie ''Crip Camp'' (2020) which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple-Emmy Award, Emmy-nominated film ''The Rape of Europa''. With the Australian artist/director Lynette Wallworth, she produced the virtual reality work Collisions', which won the 2017 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, and Awavena', which won the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary. Both ''Collisions'' and ''Awavena'' premiered simultaneously at Sundance Film Festival, Sundance and the World Economic Forum in Davos, and ''Awavena'' was selected for the 2018 Venice Biennale. Her most recent film, ''The Disappearance of Shere Hite,'' premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. That film also made the influential 2023 DOC NYC Awards Short List and won Special Mention for Editing, edited by Eileen Meyer. Newnham's 2013 film ''The ...
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Victor Kossakovsky
Viktor Kossakovsky (; born 19 July 1961) is a Russian documentary filmmaker. Early life Kossakovsky was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the time Leningrad, U.S.S.R. He began his film career in 1978, working as an assistant cameraman, assistant director, and editor at the Leningrad Studio of Documentaries. From 1986 to 1988, he studied screenwriting and directing at Moscow HCSF. He became a vegetarian during his childhood. Career Kossakovsky's first released feature was his 1992 documentary ''Belovy'' / ''The Belovs''. Subsequent works include his 2002 documentary ''Hush!'' / ''Tishe!'' and his 2003 documentary ''Russia from My Window'' (2003), both made from footage that Kossakovsky filmed out his bedroom window or on his street in St. Petersburg; and his well-received mediation on the natural wonder of water, '' Aquarela'' (2018), released in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics. In 2011, his documentary ''¡Vivan las Antipodas!'' was selected as the opening film of the Veni ...
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Garrett Bradley (filmmaker)
Garrett Bradley (born 1986) is an American filmmaker and director of short films, feature films, documentaries, and television. She is known for blending cinematic genres to explore the larger sociopolitical significance of the everyday moments of her subjects' lived experience. Early life and education Bradley was born in New York City in 1986 to abstract painters Suzanne McClelland and Peter Bradley. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. At sixteen, Bradley made her first film, which involved her interviewing each of her parents about art, the other parent, and why they got a divorce. For Bradley, this first film project was an opportunity to ask her parents questions that she "didn't feel safe asking without a camera." She titled the film ''Be-Bop Fidelity'' and submitted it to the Bridge Film Festival run by her high school, the Brooklyn Friends School; there she won her first film award. Bradley studied religion at Smith College, graduating in 2007, then e ...
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