Tag: Critics Choice Documentary Awards
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11th Critics Choice Doc Awards
Being treated as the second-coming, You Can See Everything was the obvious winner of most categories. Awards Tallies (3) You Can See Everything (2) Once Upon a Time in Harlem (1) The Baddest Speechwriter of All, Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert, Everest: The Other Side, The History of Concrete, The Idaho Murders, Lost Women of…
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11th Critics Choice Doc Nominations
Although they miss quite often, this is the most extensive precursor covering documentary features and short films. The surprise strength of 14th, which only just started screening at the New York Film Festival, suggests it might do well this season. You Can See Everything is the documentary everyone’s talking about that is the most likely…
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10th Critics Choice Doc Awards
The Perfect Stranger dominated these awards with only Ocean with David Attenborough and Orwell: 2+2=5 the only other films to pick up more than one prize. Will Perfect Stranger be the latest to be ignored by the Academy? We shall see. Nominations Tallies (5) The Perfect Neighbor (2) Ocean with David Attenborough, Orwell: 2+2=5 (1)…
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10th Critics Choice Doc Nominations
Nothing much to see here since we don’t even know what the shortlist documentaries will be but you can usually look at the nominees for Best Documentary and see several of the eventual Oscar nominees. Below are the nominations. Winners will be announced on 11/9/25. Nominations Tallies (7) Orwell: 2+2=5 (6) The Perfect Neighbor (5)…
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9th Critics Choice Doc Awards
It’s been clear for a bit now that Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is going to do quite well this awards season. The love the Critics Choice documentary committee has for the film is certain. It’s also the kind of documentary that the Academy has ignored even for a nomination in the past, so we’ll…
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9th Critics Choice Doc Nominations
The first precursors of the year are often the least impactful. The Critics Choice Association generally picks the most popular documentaries, which is not how the Academy typically operates. That said, it’s a good hint at what could be players at the Oscars. Below are the nominations. Winners will be announced on November 10, 2024.…
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8th Critics Choice Doc Awards
I don’t have a lot to say about these as they’ve been around for a bit now, but haven’t shown any predictive prescience. Still was obviously the big winner taking five prizes and that might bolster its chances at an Oscar nomination, but the Academy is often reticent to recognize biographical documentaries, though they’ve softened…
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8th Critics Choice Doc Awards
The Critics Choice Association has announced their 8th annual documentary award nominations. The Documentary and Documentary Short awards are where the Oscar overlap will be. The only one of these titles that isn’t likely to carry over is Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie because of its Emmy submission/nominations. Beyond that, we’ll have to see…
