Everyone (see here and here) seems all up in arms about Crash winning best picture at the Oscars last night. Admittedly, I gasped at the announcement and agree that it was NOT the best picture of the year by any means. But, the Academy Awards are what they are. And to be honest, I don’t […]

2006 ACADEMY AWARD Documentary Winners Documentary Feature March of the Penguins Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau Documentary Short A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson 2006 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD Documentary Winner Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Alex Gibney

I just read this article on indieWIRE and am extremely sad to find out that documentarian Garrett Scott died an accidental death yesterday (Thursday) in California. Occupation Dreamland, a film he co-directed with Ian Olds is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He was planning to attend the celebration of independent film tomorrow in Santa […]

This evening I attended the International Documentary Association 24th Annual Celebration of Academy Awards Documentary Nominees. It’s always a lovely affair. There were appetizers to start and then we were ushered into the Samuel L. Goldwyn for an evening hosted by Sandra Tsing Loh, self-proclaimed “documentary stalker.” The last of the attendees head for the […]