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‘The octopus walking on the ocean floor — that’s me’ Ronan Skillen speaks about making music for the underwater world of the Cape kelp forest in My Octopus Teacher, the first SA documentary to win an Oscar. Gwen Ansell"> By Gwen Ansell - 27 April 2021 - 09:06 'My Octopus Teacher' scored an Oscar nomination. Image: Craig Foster Skillen is talking about his role providing additional music for the Netflix documentary  My Octopus Teacher. The film is the first original Netflix documentary to be made in SA, has won multiple awards including a Bafta, and is...

Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis were some of the most anticipated winners of the year but were shunned by the Academy.

A still from Oscar-winning documentary ‘My Octopus Teacher’   | Photo Credit: Netflix Filmmaker and environmental journalist Swati talks to us about the award-winning film, that features her husband Craig Foster forging a relationship with an octopus When My Octopus Teacher first debuted on Netflix, viewers were unsure what to make of it from the title. Was it a sci-fi fantasy? An animation film? But then, the word-of-mouth began, and the small project quickly grew into one of the most popular documentaries of 2020. Tracing the tender, almost mentor-like relationship between a sea div...

Image: Instagram/Lady Zamar Some of Mzansi’s famous faces have joined the chorus of celebrations after the SA Netflix  documentary My Octopus Teacher won the Oscar for Best Documentary Film on Monday. The film has won more than 20 international awards and became the first nature documentary to win an Academy Award since The Cove in 2010. Co-directors Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed accepted the iconic gold statuette at the  awards ceremony in Los Angeles.  In their acceptance speech Pippa said she was “overwhelmed” by an “honour we never dreamed possible”. “In many ways...

LOS ANGELES – And the 2021 Oscar for documentary feature goes to … “My Octopus Teacher,” Netflix’s oddly moving look at the relationship that develops between a man and a