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What Will Make the Oscar Shortlists in Documentary and International Categories?
Here’s what might happen as doc and international contenders are narrowed to 15 semifinalistsSteve Pond | February 1, 2021 @ 1:46 PM Last Updated: February 1, 2021 @ 10:11 PM
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Monday is the start of five days of voting to determine shortlists in the nine Oscar categories that narrow down the field before the start of nomination balloting. In the Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film categories, 238 and 93 films, respectively, will be reduced to 15 semifinalists.
In each of those categories, voters must see a minimum number of entries, drawn from a “required viewing” list sent to each member, in order to vote. Documentary voters must see more than 30 films, international voters must see 12. Shortlists in all categories will be announced on Feb. 9.
Truffle Hunters, Time and Dick Johnson Is Dead Among Producers Guild Doc Nominations
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The Producers Guild of America announced the 2021 Documentary Motion Picture nominees that will advance to the final round of voting for the 32nd Annual Producers Guild Awards.
Leading the way are “Time” and “The Truffle Hunters.” Last week, Garrett Bradley’s “Time” won the National Board of Review award for best documentary feature. The Producers Guild nomination further solidifies its place as a leader in the documentary feature race. So far, “Time” has also been named best documentary among the New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Or the century before that.
A lone man and his dogs struggle up a steep hillside. In a long shot so still it looks like a watercolor all we see are man, dogs and woods. The hills are in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. The man and the dogs are scavenging for the white Alba truffles counted among the most prized, and most expensive, of gastronomic delicacies.
Over the next hour and a half, Dweck and Kershaw draw us into the strange, secretive and often poignantly sad world of truffle hunters, the old men (they are all old, they are all men) who have found their meaning of life in the pursuit of this elusive white gold. And, like the dogs sliding down the muddy hillside in that opening scene, who see their world slowly slipping away.
The Truffle Hunters wins the Aurora Prize at the Tromsø International Film Festival
The Truffle Hunters by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
The documentary
Michael Dweck and
Gregory Kershaw received both the festival’s main award, the Aurora Prize, and the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Award at the 32nd edition of the Tromsø International Film Festival, which took place from 17-23 January.
The Russian film
Scarecrow by
Mohammad Rasoulof. Meanwhile, the Tromsø Palm, awarded to the best film in the short/doc sidebar Films from the North, with films from the Barents Region, went to
EPA by Swedish directors
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