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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-diving in the freezing temps of the Atlantic, vowing to do so every day for a year. It was there, in the...

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’ prizes. More from Deadline Crip Camp, directed by Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht, and Dick Johns...

 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 closes March 1. The nominations will be announced on March 9. Round three of voting commences Mar...