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Video game industry wins first Oscar with documentary short Colette Apr 26, 2021, 1:38am EDT If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Share this story Colette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Presented by Oculus Studios and Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment, and later acquired and distributed by The Guardian, it’s the first time a video game industry project has won an Oscar. Directed by Anthony ...

April 26th, 2021 Oculus The documentary short Colettewon an Oscar last night, a first for the video game industry, and it took an unusual route to get there. The film was originally produced by Oculus Studios and EA's Respawn Entertainment as part of the first-person shooter VR game Medal of Honor's historical accuracy aims, players can unlock short "Gallery" films (in a regular 2D format) about real-life WW II veterans as they progress through the game. Among those is a 24-minute piece on Colette Marin-Catherine. Directed by Anthony Giacchino, the film tells the story of Colette, who is no...

And the Oscar Goes to … a Film From a Video Game “Colette,” which was featured in the virtual-reality video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, took home the award for best documentary short. Colette Marin-Catherine in the documentary short “Colette,” in which she returns to Germany for the first time since the end of World War II.Credit...Rose Bush/Anthony Giacchino, via Associated Press April 26, 2021, 11:59 a.m. ET It was a night of firsts: First Korean actor to win an Oscar, oldest performer to win best actor, first woman of color to win best director. And, for the video game...

Watch ‘Colette,’ the moving Oscar-nominated short film from N.J. director Today 11:48 AM Colette Marin-Catherine fought back against the Nazis as a girl in France. Her brother, Jean-Pierre, died at the German Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp after being arrested as a member of the French Resistance when he was 17. And for 74 years, she swore she’d never go to Germany. In the Oscar-nominated short film “Colette” (watch above), director Anthony Giacchino documented how she broke that promise after meeting Lucie Fouble, a young history student and docent at a World War II museum near...

'Colette' with insets of director Anthony Giacchino (upper right) and Respawn Entertainment's Peter Hirschmann (lower right). 'Colette' director Anthony Giacchino and 'Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond' helmer Peter Hirschmann discuss the idea that gaming could be a new space for documentarians. Video game players might be familiar with Colette, a short documentary film that features a 90-year-old former member of the French Resistance and appears inside the virtual reality adventure  Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. Movie buffs may know the project from its distribution by the U.K.'s  Th...