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An underwater friendship published : 10 May 2021 at 04:30 My Octopus Teacher. NETFLIX My Octopus Teacher recently won the Best Documentary category at the Academy Awards, which may be a huge surprise for many. This story of a man and his unlikely friendship with an octopus in the cold ocean off Cape Town, South Africa triumphed over other heavy hitters this year like Alexander Nanau's Collective, a shocking exposé of needless deaths in Romania; Time, a film about a wife fighting for the release of her husband who was jailed for 60 years; or Crip Camp, an Obama-p...

“My Octopus Teacher” Oscar win is complicated for South Africa Quartz 1 hr ago Liani Maasdorp © Provided by Quartz Pippa Ehrlich, Marlee Matlin, and James Reed, winners of the award for Best Documentary Feature for The Best Documentary Feature gong for My Octopus Teacher at this year’s Academy Awards has been seen by many critics as the type of underdog story Oscar loves. The film, directed by Pippa Erlich and James Reed, was—like the other South African-themed documentary to wow the Oscars, The story of a man and his relationship with an octopus in the cold, c...

Modi’s BJP suffers election loss amid coronavirus crisis By The World staff © R S Iyer/AP Indian policemen guard at a vote counting center for the state legislature elections amid a weekend lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus Kochi, India, May 2, 2021. Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here. Amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party suffered a defeat on Sunday in the eastern West Bengal state. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is facing criticism fo...

Academy Award winning documentary, ’My Octopus Teacher’, does a world of good for ocean conservation

My Octopus Teacher Oscar win great boost for South Africa tourism Apr 29, 2021  Johannesburg, RSA — South African excellence was on display at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles last night with the acclaimed Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, winning an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature Category.  The documentary is set in the False Bay area in Cape Town and focusses on the intimate relationship between, independent film maker, Craig Foster and an Octopus, coming together in the Atlantic Ocean.  South Africa has an abundance of marine bio-diversity ...