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BAFTA unveils 2021 doc nominees Nominees have been revealed for the 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), to be held April 10 to 11. In the documentary category, films in contention include Alexander Nanau’s Collective (pictured); The Dissident from Bryan Fogel and Thor Halvorssen; My Octopus Teacher fromPippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster; and Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes’ The Social Dilemma. Seventy-seven documentary feature films were submitted for consideration in the...

Rocks, and The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women—Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron—nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021s 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups. Advertisement Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), ...

Ann Farmer About halfway through My Octopus Teacher — long after viewers have fallen head-over-heels for the eight-limbed star of this Netflix nature documentary — danger rears up. Sharks have picked up her scent. She has no time to return to her den, so she ducks under a rock, backing as far into a crevice as she can. More sharks appear. They swarm the opening, gliding back and forth, pausing to jam their noses into it. "I struggled immensely at that moment," says director of photography ...

Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine discussed their acclaimed documentary feature Boys State along with Steven Garza, one of the 1,000 teenage subjects in the film who participated in the annual event at the University of Texas at Austin. The Boys State program takes place over the course of a week in all 50 states, with thousands of high school students participating in mock exercises to build representative state governments from the ground up. Garza himself was one of the teenagers who...

A rewardingly intimate deep dive. TWITTER Shot in the waters off the South African coast, this Netflix documentary chronicles one mans life-changing relationship with a wild cephalopod. If youre not a marine biologist and you havent yet seen My Octopus Teacher, chances are good that you have no strong feelings about eight-armed cephalopods. You might associate their tentacles with horror movies or appetizer plates — but likely not such stirring matters as interspecies communication or physic...

Courtesy of Netflix Among the 15 shortlisted docs, My Octopus Teacher’ captures the unusual bond between a burned-out filmmaker and a cephalopod. Celebrated for his 2000 film The Great Dance, South African documentary filmmaker Craig Foster found himself, a decade later, exhausted from the pressures of trying to survive as a documentarian. Feeling a sense of detachment from the outside world as well as the people closest to him, Foster attempted to rekindle his passion for life by free-divin...

The 2020 Netflix Original documentary film, ‘My Octopus Teacher’, made the Oscars shortlist for Documentary Feature.

Oscars Documentary Feature Shortlist: Snubs, Surprises And A Netflix-Amazon Showdown Deadline 2/10/2021 Amazon Studios landed two films on the feature shortlist— Time, directed by Garrett Bradley, and All In: The Fight for Democracy, directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés. Time, which touches on mass incarceration through the experience of one Black family in Louisiana, must be considered a solid favorite in the Oscar race, having tied for the Gotham Award and amassing multiple critics�...

 and  Dick Johnson is Dead are among the 15 documentary and scripted feature films longlisted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for the 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards. The British organization amended its BAFTA voting instituted in September to drive the diversity of nominations, with round one of voting having taken place from Jan. 12-26. Longlists existed in BAFTA voting prior to 2012 but were eliminated that year. The second round of voting opens Feb. 19 and...