Sheila Nevins is leaving HBO Documentary Films, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
News of Nevins' departure was first reported in an extensive interview with Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, which went online early Saturday.
Sources tell THR that Nevins will be leaving early next year.
The announcement was made in an extensive interview with Maureen Dowd that went online early Saturday.
Nevins, 78, has headed up HBO's documentary division since 1979, serving as president since 2004, with HBO having won 26 Oscars on her watch, most recently A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness...
News of Nevins' departure was first reported in an extensive interview with Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, which went online early Saturday.
Sources tell THR that Nevins will be leaving early next year.
The announcement was made in an extensive interview with Maureen Dowd that went online early Saturday.
Nevins, 78, has headed up HBO's documentary division since 1979, serving as president since 2004, with HBO having won 26 Oscars on her watch, most recently A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness...
- 12/16/2017
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Folks, a short list has emerged for Academy Award nominating consideration. Yes, we have AMPAS announcing that they’ve pared down the list of films hoping to be nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject rather considerably. There were initially far more entries vying for one of the five available slots, but not it’s just down to ten. Obviously, only half will be among the final five receiving spots in the Oscar race, though that’s pretty good odds, all things considered. This can be a hard category to figure out as I’ve mentioned in prior years, but I can at least try and set the stage for you a bit now. It’s the least I can do, right? As always, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that this is one of the least seen categories at the Academy Awards, if not the absolute least seen.
- 10/27/2016
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
There is a bittersweet bit of irony at play in the fact that Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy-award winning short documentary film A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is on the schedule at LIFF2016. I watched it the same day I heard about the death of Pakistani internet sensation Qandeel Baloch (allegedly an honour killing at the hands of her brother).
A Girl in the River traces the case of the attempted honour killing of a girl at the hands of her father and uncle. Each year, the film tells us, at least 1000 Pakistani women are killed by family members who deem that they have sullied the family “izzat” or honour in some way. Saba’s “crime” was to run away and marry – in fact, to marry the man that her own family had arranged her marriage with, a marriage they decided to break off when Saba...
A Girl in the River traces the case of the attempted honour killing of a girl at the hands of her father and uncle. Each year, the film tells us, at least 1000 Pakistani women are killed by family members who deem that they have sullied the family “izzat” or honour in some way. Saba’s “crime” was to run away and marry – in fact, to marry the man that her own family had arranged her marriage with, a marriage they decided to break off when Saba...
- 7/19/2016
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
Two-time Academy Award® winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken bring their acclaimed documentary Song of Lahore to U.S. audiences this Friday, May 20 with a release that includes theaters in New York and Los Angeles plus national availability on DVD, VOD and Digital HD at the same time.
The co-directors sat down for this exclusive interview to discuss their new film which features the music of The Sachal Ensemble of Pakistan and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and examines the lives and the cultural heritage of Pakistan’s classical musicians as they prepare for a concert in New York City.
Interview with Song Of Lahore co-directors Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken:
Q: Was music ever banned in Pakistan?
A: Music was never banned outright, but when General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq took power in 1977 he put in place restrictions on broadcasting non-religious music and dancing. Nightclubs and alcohol were banned,...
The co-directors sat down for this exclusive interview to discuss their new film which features the music of The Sachal Ensemble of Pakistan and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and examines the lives and the cultural heritage of Pakistan’s classical musicians as they prepare for a concert in New York City.
Interview with Song Of Lahore co-directors Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken:
Q: Was music ever banned in Pakistan?
A: Music was never banned outright, but when General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq took power in 1977 he put in place restrictions on broadcasting non-religious music and dancing. Nightclubs and alcohol were banned,...
- 5/19/2016
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
Directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Best Documentary, Short Subject: Saving Face, 2012; A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, 2015) and Andy Schocken, the acclaimed documentary Song Of Lahore opens in select theaters and is available on DVD, VOD and Digital HD May 20. Featuring the music of The Sachal Ensemble of Pakistan and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Song Of Lahore examines the lives and the cultural heritage of Pakistan’s classical musicians as they prepare for a concert in New York City.
The theatrical release of Song Of Lahore begins on Friday, May 20, exclusively at Village East Cinema in New York City and Laemmle’s Music Hall in Beverly Hills.
Song Of Lahore was an official selection at numerous film festivals in 2015, including the Tribeca Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Idfa Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival and the Heartland Film Festival.
The theatrical release of Song Of Lahore begins on Friday, May 20, exclusively at Village East Cinema in New York City and Laemmle’s Music Hall in Beverly Hills.
Song Of Lahore was an official selection at numerous film festivals in 2015, including the Tribeca Film Festival, Melbourne Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Idfa Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival and the Heartland Film Festival.
- 5/13/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
How exactly would host Chris Rock handle #OscarsSoWhite, after staying mostly silent on the issues in recent weeks? What if Leo didn’t win? Would this be a “political Oscars” and who else is Hollywood excluding? We still do not have all the answers, and there is a lot of work to do. This was the year of the #agendaoscars, a year where effort itself was the show’s hope and spotlight. It was not a happy-punchy show in an Ellen DeGeneres way, nor an activist awards to recognize the serious issues concerning diversity in one of America’s most closely watched industries. Yet, this year’s more hesitant tone allowed its significant moments to break in with full impact. Here then are the ten best things about the 2016 Oscars.
1. Lady Gaga’s Performance of “Til It Happens To You.”
No other Best Song performer rivaled Gaga’s intensity and...
1. Lady Gaga’s Performance of “Til It Happens To You.”
No other Best Song performer rivaled Gaga’s intensity and...
- 3/1/2016
- by Dina Paulson
- CinemaNerdz
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, made by Pakistani journalist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, won the Best Documentary Short Oscar at the 88th Academy Awards. ‘A Girl In The River’ The win for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness made for the second Oscar victory for Obaid-Chinoy, who previously […]
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- 2/29/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
I'm sure most of you watched the Academy Awards last night, so I wanted to create a place for you to talk to us and your fellow commenters about the winners, losers, snubs, performances, and host. For good reason, the topic of diversity was looming large in the minds of the producers of the broadcast, and I thought host Chris Rock did a great job of ripping Hollywood while at the same time creating a call to action for equal opportunity in the industry (which is all the controversy really boils down to). For addressing a tough, complicated issue that obviously doesn't start and end with the organization of the Oscars, I thought it was handled about as well as it could have been.
As for the winners and losers, I was pleasantly surprised to see Mad Max: Fury Road take home as many awards as it did, considering what...
As for the winners and losers, I was pleasantly surprised to see Mad Max: Fury Road take home as many awards as it did, considering what...
- 2/29/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Another awards season came to a close on Sunday night when the annual Academy Awards were held in Hollywood from the Dolby Theatre. With many of the categories and ultimate winners anyone’s guess up until the end, there were many highlights from the big night. From the red carpet to the performances, check out our look at the best moments from the 88th Oscars.
George Miller and Margaret Sixel.
1. Big winner of the 88th Oscars was George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. The film received the most wins with six, including Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing. Oh What A Lovely Day!
Mark Rylance poses backstage with the Oscar®
2. The shock of the night was Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar loss for Creed. While all the precursor awards pointed to a win for the Rocky actor,...
George Miller and Margaret Sixel.
1. Big winner of the 88th Oscars was George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. The film received the most wins with six, including Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing. Oh What A Lovely Day!
Mark Rylance poses backstage with the Oscar®
2. The shock of the night was Sylvester Stallone’s Oscar loss for Creed. While all the precursor awards pointed to a win for the Rocky actor,...
- 2/29/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The biggest movie awards show has come to an end, and if you missed any of the event last night (or our live-blog) you can check out the full list of winners right here.
I'm not going to lie here...I did far worse than usual in my predictions this year. Though that tends to happen when there are a Lot of good movies nominated, and I chose with my heart instead of what I tend to know the Academy voters to do. Alas, here are the big winners:
Best Picture – Spotlight
Best Actress – Brie Larson, Room
Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Directing – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Best Supporting Actress – Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best Supporting Actor – Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Animated Feature Film – Inside Out
Documentary Feature – Amy
Foreign Language Film – Son of Saul, Hungary
Adapted Screenplay – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short...
I'm not going to lie here...I did far worse than usual in my predictions this year. Though that tends to happen when there are a Lot of good movies nominated, and I chose with my heart instead of what I tend to know the Academy voters to do. Alas, here are the big winners:
Best Picture – Spotlight
Best Actress – Brie Larson, Room
Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Directing – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Best Supporting Actress – Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Best Supporting Actor – Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Animated Feature Film – Inside Out
Documentary Feature – Amy
Foreign Language Film – Son of Saul, Hungary
Adapted Screenplay – Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short...
- 2/29/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Chicago – “Spotlight” held off all challengers at the 88th Academy Awards, as the film won Best Picture, after Alejandro González Iñárrittu had won Best Director for the second year in a row for “The Revenant.” Chris Rock held steady as the host, acknowledging Oscar’s diversity problems with a series of comedy bits.
Chris Rock Hosted the 88th Academy Awards
Photo credit: ABC
Probably the biggest upset of the night was in the Best Supporting Actor category, as Mark Rylance of “Bridge of Spies” bested Sylvester Stallone reprising his Rocky Balboa role in “Creed.” Favorites Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”) and Brie Larson (“Room”) won Best Actor and Best Actress, while Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) got the nod as the Best Supporting Actress for her stellar movie year. The popular “Mad Max: Fury Road” took home the most Oscars with six, practically sweeping all of the production and technical categories.
Chris Rock Hosted the 88th Academy Awards
Photo credit: ABC
Probably the biggest upset of the night was in the Best Supporting Actor category, as Mark Rylance of “Bridge of Spies” bested Sylvester Stallone reprising his Rocky Balboa role in “Creed.” Favorites Leonardo DiCaprio (“The Revenant”) and Brie Larson (“Room”) won Best Actor and Best Actress, while Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) got the nod as the Best Supporting Actress for her stellar movie year. The popular “Mad Max: Fury Road” took home the most Oscars with six, practically sweeping all of the production and technical categories.
- 2/29/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Epic storytelling and grand cinematic visions won big during a surprisingly edgy, entertaining and often political Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night. The producers of the investigative-journalism biopic Spotlight took home the Oscar for Best Picture, while director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and actor Leonard DiCaprio earned honors for their contributions to The Revenant. Additionally, Mad Max: Fury Road swept a number of technical categories.
The evening's biggest winner, however, was host Chris Rock who walked onstage to Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" and didn't stop challenging the lack of diversity among...
The evening's biggest winner, however, was host Chris Rock who walked onstage to Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" and didn't stop challenging the lack of diversity among...
- 2/29/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Here is the complete list of winners from the 88th Academy Awards, presented @ Hollywood's Dolby Theater, February 28, 2016:
Best Picture
Spotlight
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Directing
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Animated Feature
Inside Out
Cinematography
The Revenant
Costume Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Documentary Feature
Amy
Documentary Short
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Live Action Short
Stutterer
Makeup And Hair Styling
Mad Max: Fury Road
Original Song
"Writing's on the Wall" - Spectre
Animated Short
Bear Story
Sound Mixing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Film Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul
Original Score
Ennio Morricone: The Hateful Eight
Production Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Adapted...
Best Picture
Spotlight
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Directing
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
Animated Feature
Inside Out
Cinematography
The Revenant
Costume Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Documentary Feature
Amy
Documentary Short
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Live Action Short
Stutterer
Makeup And Hair Styling
Mad Max: Fury Road
Original Song
"Writing's on the Wall" - Spectre
Animated Short
Bear Story
Sound Mixing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Film Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul
Original Score
Ennio Morricone: The Hateful Eight
Production Design
Mad Max: Fury Road
Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Adapted...
- 2/29/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
It’s Hollywood’s biggest night. In an awards season with no true clear frontrunner for Best Picture, we’re finally finding out who’s taking home the coveted statuettes at the 2016 Oscars ceremony. Below is the full list of nominees. HitFix will keep you updated on the winners here as they’re announced. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ honors are being presented at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Best Picture The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Winner: Spotlight Best Actress Cate Blanchett, Carol Winner: Brie Larson, Room Jennifer Lawrence, Joy Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn Best Actor Bryan Cranston, Trumbo Matt Damon, The Martian Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight Rooney Mara, Carol Rachel McAdams, Spotlight Winner: Alicia Vikander,...
- 2/29/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Best Picture
Spotlight
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor:
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Jennifer Jason Leigh,...
Spotlight
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Best Actress
Brie Larson, Room
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor:
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Jennifer Jason Leigh,...
- 2/29/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Awards season comes to a glitzy end tonight with Sunday's broadcast of the Academy Awards.
Chris Rock returns to host one of the most competitive races in years -- with front-runners emerging late in the game, or not at all, in some categories. Will "The Revenant" sweep? Will Leo finally take home an Oscar? Can "Spotlight" ride its early buzz into the winners' circle?
We'll be updating the winners' list throughout the show. So make sure to check back to see who won, and who lost.
Best Picture
"Spotlight" -- Winner
"The Big Short"
"Bridge Of Spies"
"Brooklyn"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"
"Room
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant" -- Winner
Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"
Best Actress
Brie Larson, "Room" -- Winner
Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"
Best Director
Alejandro G. Iñárritu,...
Chris Rock returns to host one of the most competitive races in years -- with front-runners emerging late in the game, or not at all, in some categories. Will "The Revenant" sweep? Will Leo finally take home an Oscar? Can "Spotlight" ride its early buzz into the winners' circle?
We'll be updating the winners' list throughout the show. So make sure to check back to see who won, and who lost.
Best Picture
"Spotlight" -- Winner
"The Big Short"
"Bridge Of Spies"
"Brooklyn"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"The Revenant"
"Room
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant" -- Winner
Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"
Best Actress
Brie Larson, "Room" -- Winner
Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"
Best Director
Alejandro G. Iñárritu,...
- 2/29/2016
- by Phil Pirrello
- Moviefone
A moment of silence please for the worst night in Academy Awards history in the past decade.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s sift through the ashes of what turned out to be a rather disastrous evening, starting with the fact that the instantly-forgettable Spotlight has claimed the top prize. The film only managed to nab one additional Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, making it the weakest Best Picture win in over 60 years (the last Best Picture winner to take only one additional Oscar was The Greatest Show on Earth, which, fittingly, is commonly named as one of the worst picks in Academy history). To reiterate, the Academy is saying that it’s not the best edited film, it’s not the best directed film, nor does it even deserve a single acting award, and yet, it’s somehow the best film of the year because of its lackluster screenplay.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s sift through the ashes of what turned out to be a rather disastrous evening, starting with the fact that the instantly-forgettable Spotlight has claimed the top prize. The film only managed to nab one additional Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, making it the weakest Best Picture win in over 60 years (the last Best Picture winner to take only one additional Oscar was The Greatest Show on Earth, which, fittingly, is commonly named as one of the worst picks in Academy history). To reiterate, the Academy is saying that it’s not the best edited film, it’s not the best directed film, nor does it even deserve a single acting award, and yet, it’s somehow the best film of the year because of its lackluster screenplay.
- 2/29/2016
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
Kicking off at 8:30Pm Est tonight is the 88th Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock. Leading the pack of nominations is The Revenant, which picked up 12 nominations, while Mad Max: Fury Road is close behind with 10, The Martian had 7, while Carol, Bridge of Spies and Spotlight each picked up 6, so we’ll have to see who comes out on top. We’ll be live updating the winners below (in red) with more coverage on Twitter.
Update: See the full list of winners below, topped by Spotlight, while Mad: Max Fury Road picked up the most with six.
Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Best Directing
Adam McKay – The Big Short
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian...
Update: See the full list of winners below, topped by Spotlight, while Mad: Max Fury Road picked up the most with six.
Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight
Best Directing
Adam McKay – The Big Short
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston – Trumbo
Matt Damon – The Martian...
- 2/29/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I will be posting updates of all of the Oscar action here tonight in this post (and live tweeting). You can check out all of the nominations below, I will Red Bold the winners as they are announced. 2015 brought a crazy amount of competition and there’s absolutely no telling which way the votes will go with this room of talent. Will Leo finally win his Oscar? Will George Miller take the Oscar for Best Director? Will Stallone finally earn the gold for Rocky after all these years?
The Revenant leads the way with 12 nods, including Picture, Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Supporting Actor (Tom Hardy). Mad Max: Fury Road follows with 10 nods, with the action epic getting the well deserved Picture and Director nominations.
Here we go…
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFavue
Straight Outta Compton — Jonathan Herman,...
The Revenant leads the way with 12 nods, including Picture, Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Supporting Actor (Tom Hardy). Mad Max: Fury Road follows with 10 nods, with the action epic getting the well deserved Picture and Director nominations.
Here we go…
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
Inside Out – Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Meg LeFavue
Straight Outta Compton — Jonathan Herman,...
- 2/28/2016
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
“From documentaries, we learn about our world and humanity,” was the greeting by Documentary Branch governor Kate Amend to the audience in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Wednesday evening at the opening of Documentary program. Amend said while this year’s nominated shorts were tragic, they were also about “courage and compassion.”
Referring to the Documentary Shorts as “The Big Shorts,” Amend (editor of The Long Way Home, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Case against 8) mentioned that 124 films qualified in both the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject categories.
The evening included a screening of clips from the nominated films. Nominees from all 10 films also took part in panel discussions talked about their own films and shared insights on the craft of documentary filmmaking. All the directors gratefully acknowledged the collaboration of the cinematographers and editors in the success of their movies.
Best...
Referring to the Documentary Shorts as “The Big Shorts,” Amend (editor of The Long Way Home, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Case against 8) mentioned that 124 films qualified in both the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short Subject categories.
The evening included a screening of clips from the nominated films. Nominees from all 10 films also took part in panel discussions talked about their own films and shared insights on the craft of documentary filmmaking. All the directors gratefully acknowledged the collaboration of the cinematographers and editors in the success of their movies.
Best...
- 2/25/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Eric Blume reporting for duty. We hadn't yet reviewed the short film Oscar nominees so I binged all 15 of this week. Many minds and bladders wander away from the Oscar telecast during these three categories. Even those of us who claim we’ve “seen everything” have rarely seen all of the entries in the three shorts fields. But pay attention because these winners can bring some of the best moments of the show: remember the 1991 show when producer Debra Chasnoff won for Documentary Short Subject for the General Electric expose Deadly Deception? She got to the podium and said “boycott Ge!” with a cut to Barbra Streisand smiling and clapping with Kevin Costner right behind her decidedly smiling and not clapping. We Oscar lovers live for moments like this.
There’s a lot of quality among the three categories this year. Here’s a quick overview as well as thoughts...
There’s a lot of quality among the three categories this year. Here’s a quick overview as well as thoughts...
- 2/25/2016
- by Eric Blume
- FilmExperience
The 88th Annual Academy Awards are just around the corner on Sunday evening, so once again, it’s time to lay down my predictions for who has the best chance of winning in each of the 24 categories, along with a bit of analysis as to why they appear to be the frontrunners. As usual, I’ll start from the smallest categories and work my way up, so let’s get started:
Best Animated Short Film
“Bear Story” Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
“Prologue” Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
“Sanjay’s Super Team” Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos” Konstantin Bronzit
“World of Tomorrow” Don Hertzfeldt
Best Live Action Short Film
“Ave Maria” Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
“Day One” Henry Hughes
“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” Patrick Vollrath
“Shok” Jamie Donoughue
“Stutterer” Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Best Documentary Short Subject
“Body Team 12...
Best Animated Short Film
“Bear Story” Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
“Prologue” Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
“Sanjay’s Super Team” Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
“We Can’t Live without Cosmos” Konstantin Bronzit
“World of Tomorrow” Don Hertzfeldt
Best Live Action Short Film
“Ave Maria” Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
“Day One” Henry Hughes
“Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” Patrick Vollrath
“Shok” Jamie Donoughue
“Stutterer” Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
Best Documentary Short Subject
“Body Team 12...
- 2/24/2016
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
Every week we bring you a guide to what's hitting DVD/Blu-ray shelves and VOD services. Every month we put together an overall calendar guide, plus we highlight the more obscure releases worth checking out, plus the titles hitting and leaving Netflix. But that's not all! If you subscribe to HBO Now, or are thinking of subscribing, here's what you can expect for the month of March. New Original Programming: A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (3/7) Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (3/12) Ebola: The Doctors’ Story (3/14) Body Team 12 (3/14) Orphans of Ebola (3/14) Gonzaga: The March to Madness Finale (3/16) Everything is Copy (3/21) Psi: Season 2 Finale (3/25) Only the...
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- 2/24/2016
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
In 2014, Saba Qaiser was shot in the head by her father and dumped in a river. She survived. Now Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy wants her Oscar-nominated film about Saba to expose the shameful crime Pakistan has ignored for too long
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a documentary film-maker whose 2012 film about acid violence, Saving Face, made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award. This year, she is nominated again for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which tells the story of 19-year-old Saba Qaiser, from the Pakistani province of Punjab, whose father and uncle shot her in the face and threw her in a river because she had married without her family’s consent. Because she had tilted her head at the last minute, Saba survived the shooting and managed to get to a petrol station for help. But although her father and uncle were subsequently arrested,...
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a documentary film-maker whose 2012 film about acid violence, Saving Face, made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award. This year, she is nominated again for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which tells the story of 19-year-old Saba Qaiser, from the Pakistani province of Punjab, whose father and uncle shot her in the face and threw her in a river because she had married without her family’s consent. Because she had tilted her head at the last minute, Saba survived the shooting and managed to get to a petrol station for help. But although her father and uncle were subsequently arrested,...
- 2/14/2016
- by Alex Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2014, Saba Qaiser was shot in the head by her father and dumped in a river. She survived. Now Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy wants her Oscar-nominated film about Saba to expose the shameful crime Pakistan has ignored for too long
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a documentary film-maker whose 2012 film about acid violence, Saving Face, made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award. This year, she is nominated again for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which tells the story of 19-year-old Saba Qaiser, from the Pakistani province of Punjab, whose father and uncle shot her in the face and threw her in a river because she had married without her family’s consent. Because she had tilted her head at the last minute, Saba survived the shooting and managed to get to a petrol station for help. But although her father and uncle were subsequently arrested,...
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy is a documentary film-maker whose 2012 film about acid violence, Saving Face, made her the first Pakistani to win an Academy Award. This year, she is nominated again for A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, which tells the story of 19-year-old Saba Qaiser, from the Pakistani province of Punjab, whose father and uncle shot her in the face and threw her in a river because she had married without her family’s consent. Because she had tilted her head at the last minute, Saba survived the shooting and managed to get to a petrol station for help. But although her father and uncle were subsequently arrested,...
- 2/14/2016
- by Alex Clark
- The Guardian - Film News
By Patrick Shanley
Managing Editor
The best documentary short award has been presented at the Oscars since 1942. Unlike its counterpart category, best documentary feature, documentary shorts rarely receive wide theatrical releases. As such, it can be difficult for many film buffs, and Oscar predictors, to view the films.
However, in recent years a number of documentary shorts have been broadcast on television, including three of this year’s nominees (Body Team 12, Claude Lanzmann, A Girl In The River: The Price of Forgiveness) which are all HBO productions and will be broadcast on the network this year. The other two films in the category are serious contenders for this year’s Oscar, as well, and may be worth picking in your office pool.
Here’s a breakdown of all of this year’s best documentary short nominees.
Last Day of Freedom: Through a first-hand interview, the film tells the story of Manny Babbitt,...
Managing Editor
The best documentary short award has been presented at the Oscars since 1942. Unlike its counterpart category, best documentary feature, documentary shorts rarely receive wide theatrical releases. As such, it can be difficult for many film buffs, and Oscar predictors, to view the films.
However, in recent years a number of documentary shorts have been broadcast on television, including three of this year’s nominees (Body Team 12, Claude Lanzmann, A Girl In The River: The Price of Forgiveness) which are all HBO productions and will be broadcast on the network this year. The other two films in the category are serious contenders for this year’s Oscar, as well, and may be worth picking in your office pool.
Here’s a breakdown of all of this year’s best documentary short nominees.
Last Day of Freedom: Through a first-hand interview, the film tells the story of Manny Babbitt,...
- 2/13/2016
- by Patrick Shanley
- Scott Feinberg
By Patrick Shanley
Managing Editor
When it comes to this year’s Academy Awards, no word is more buzzworthy than “diversity”. For the second year in a row the Oscars have nominated only white actors in their four main acting categories, sparking backlash and, as a result, inciting the Academy to announce new changes to tackle its “diversity problem”.
Amidst another year of #OscarsSoWhite trending on Twitter, however, the fact that 2015 has been an exceptionally strong year for women has been largely overlooked. Three of this year’s best picture nominees (Brooklyn, Room, Mad Max: Fury Road) are female-centric and feature strong female protagonists in the center of the action. In fact, even outside of those films and their performances, a number of women are nominated for best picture as producers, as well. Kristie Macosko Krieger is nominated for Bridge of Spies, Blye Pagon Faust is nominated for Spotlight, Dede Gardner...
Managing Editor
When it comes to this year’s Academy Awards, no word is more buzzworthy than “diversity”. For the second year in a row the Oscars have nominated only white actors in their four main acting categories, sparking backlash and, as a result, inciting the Academy to announce new changes to tackle its “diversity problem”.
Amidst another year of #OscarsSoWhite trending on Twitter, however, the fact that 2015 has been an exceptionally strong year for women has been largely overlooked. Three of this year’s best picture nominees (Brooklyn, Room, Mad Max: Fury Road) are female-centric and feature strong female protagonists in the center of the action. In fact, even outside of those films and their performances, a number of women are nominated for best picture as producers, as well. Kristie Macosko Krieger is nominated for Bridge of Spies, Blye Pagon Faust is nominated for Spotlight, Dede Gardner...
- 2/4/2016
- by Patrick Shanley
- Scott Feinberg
“A Girl in the River” masterfully portrays a culture that justifies killing women, its rage subsumed by a dispiriting account of how its customs are perpetuated. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s an extraordinary group of short documentaries that received Oscar nominations this year, and I’m having a tough time picking a favorite, a best, or a guess about which will win the Academy Award. I am partial to stories about women, however, and in particular about the special hardships that women face because of our gender, so I’m gonna throw my hopes for a win behind “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” [IMDb | official site], from Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (who won this same Oscar in 2012 for her short doc “Saving Face”). This is a horrifying story of an attempted “honor killing” in Gujranwala,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It’s an extraordinary group of short documentaries that received Oscar nominations this year, and I’m having a tough time picking a favorite, a best, or a guess about which will win the Academy Award. I am partial to stories about women, however, and in particular about the special hardships that women face because of our gender, so I’m gonna throw my hopes for a win behind “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” [IMDb | official site], from Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (who won this same Oscar in 2012 for her short doc “Saving Face”). This is a horrifying story of an attempted “honor killing” in Gujranwala,...
- 2/1/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing each short category. See the Documentary section below and the other shorts sections here.
Body Team 12 – Liberia – 13 minutes
For Americans the Ebola scare was a handful of cases and nurses who weren’t as careful as they should have been. To the world it was thousands upon thousands of dead bodies—loved ones that family members can’t normally mourn because every second the deceased’s blood lays in the streets is an extra second risking greater contamination. It’s easy to forget the scope of epidemics like this when ground zero isn’t in our own backyard. We blame countries for being inferior, rejoice in our capabilities to put a lid on things, and go about our daily business as though nothing is wrong. This isn’t the case for citizens of Liberia where outbreak numbers exploded exponentially. It was a plague destroying their country.
Body Team 12 – Liberia – 13 minutes
For Americans the Ebola scare was a handful of cases and nurses who weren’t as careful as they should have been. To the world it was thousands upon thousands of dead bodies—loved ones that family members can’t normally mourn because every second the deceased’s blood lays in the streets is an extra second risking greater contamination. It’s easy to forget the scope of epidemics like this when ground zero isn’t in our own backyard. We blame countries for being inferior, rejoice in our capabilities to put a lid on things, and go about our daily business as though nothing is wrong. This isn’t the case for citizens of Liberia where outbreak numbers exploded exponentially. It was a plague destroying their country.
- 1/28/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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