UPDATED with latest: It’s a new calendar year, and film awards season is in full swing — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise.
Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead, starting with Saturday’s Palm Springs Film Festival awards gala and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards…
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-shortlisted documentary Holding Liat is kicking off its U.S. theatrical run just ahead of the start of Academy Award nomination voting.
The film directed by Brandon Kramer, winner of the top prize for documentary at the Berlin Film Festival last February, opened at Film Forum in…
Historically, the Golden Globes doesn't feature a category for Best Documentary Film, and you won't see one announced in Sunday night's ceremony. But that doesn't mean two prominent nonfiction filmmakers can't call themselves Golden Globes winners.
Leading up to the telecast, directors Eugene…
EXCLUSIVE: L.A. Times Short Docs has acquired streaming rights to the Oscar-shortlisted documentary On Healing Land, Birds Perch days ahead of the start of nomination voting.
The film directed by Naja Phạm Lockwood offers an unprecedented and emotional examination of the legacy from one of the…
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from triumph at the Cinema Eye Honors, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Seeds has released its first trailer. Watch it above.
Brittany Shyne's film opens next Friday, January 16, at Film Forum in New York. On Thursday night, it won two Cinema Eye Honors, including Outstanding…
Come See Me in the Good Light strengthened its case for an Oscar nomination, winning two awards at the Cinema Eye Honors in New York tonight, including Outstanding Feature.
The film directed by Ryan White, which tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley and their courage…
The two-part HBO Original documentary Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! will debut its first part on Thursday, January 22, with Part 2 premiering the following night. The doc includes interviews with the late film directors Rob Reiner and David Lynch, among other big names.
Both parts will be…
EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin is getting a major lift just days before the Academy opens nomination voting.
Kino Lorber today announced it has acquired North American rights to the award-winning film directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Pavel…
EXCLUSIVE: The London TV Screenings is just a few short weeks away and global distributors are beginning to prepare their slates.
Israel’s Keshet International (KI), for one, has got the ball rolling by picking up a factual programing package from Paramount’s Ananey Studios.
KI will be…
One year ago today, filmmaker Ondi Timoner was traveling in Europe at work on a new project when her phone pinged with an alarming bulletin: wildfire was tearing through Timoner's Altadena neighborhood in Los Angeles. She would learn the walls had come down at the home she shared with her wife…
For documentary filmmakers who made the Oscar shortlists, the brief window to celebrate their achievement has ceded to a fresh round of tension – the agonizing wait to see if they make the final cut of Academy Award nominees.
Nomination voting begins on Monday, and with that date fast…
Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who survived a decade of abuse after her husband drugged her and arranged for dozens of men to rape her while she was unconscious, is to be the subject of an HBO documentary.
The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network is in production on the doc, which will be…