Though yours truly (Nathaniel) owns and operates this site, I am not really part of its growing documentary beat (thanks Glenn!). But as a known stickler for rules (without rules, games and competitions and awards ceremonies are useless, truly) I plead to the cosmos "Won't anyone join me in being enormously troubled that documentary associations see no trouble in nominated O.J. Simpson: Made in America in both TV and Feature categories?" Shouldn't these organizations have rules on such things. Shouldn't they have executive committees for situations in which rules are challenged or unclear.
The IDA Feature Nominees -- all but "I Am Not Your Negro" are also nominated in the BFCA's feature category
And if there is truly no distinction between TV and Film anymore (something we're willing to entertain even if we don't like it) than shouldn't we have an abrupt end to their separation in category/awards forms? In the past week or two we've had three announcements that effect or reflect the oncoming Oscar race for Best Documentary Film. In all three (BFCA Doc nominees, AMPAS long list, and now IDA) O.J. Simpson: Made in America is included among the features but in two of the three -- the two with TV awards --its parent series is nominated for television prizes. O.J. Simpson Made in America is part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, if we understand correctly (do we?). Can anyone explain or justify what is happening? The full list of IDA nominations is after the jump...
Best Feature
- 13th (reviewed | now streaming)
Director and Producer: Ava DuVernay
Producers: Spencer Averick and Howard Barish
Netflix - Cameraperson (reviewed)
Director and Producer: Kirsten Johnson
Producer: Marilyn Ness
Janus Films - Fire at Sea (reviewed | interview | now playing theatrically)
Director and Producer: Gianfranco Rosi
Producers: Paolo Del Brocco, Roberto Ciccutto, Camille Laemle, Serge Lalou, Donatella Palermo, Olivier Pere and Martine Saada
Kino Lorber - I Am Not Your Negro
Director and Producer: Raoul Peck
Producers: Remi Grellety and Hébert Peck
Magnolia Pictures - O.J.: Made in America (reviewed | now streaming)
Director: Ezra Edelman
Producers: Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Nina Krstic, Erin Leyden, Tamara Rosenberg, Connor Schell, and Caroline Waterlow
ESPN
TFE's Review - Weiner (reviewed)
Directors and Producers: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
Sundance Selects, Showtime Documentary Film
Best Short Award
- The Above
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Producer: Marilyn Ness
Field of Vision - Clinica De Migrantes : Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Director: Maxim Pozdorvkin
Producer: Jenny Lim
HBO - Extremis (also made AMPAS finalist list for shorts | now streaming)
Director and Producer: Dan Krauss
f/8 Filmworks Ltd, Netflix - Pickle
Director and Producer: Amy Nicholson
Myrtle & Olive, Oscilloscope - Red Lake
Director and Producer: Billy Luther
Producers: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato
World of Wonder Productions - The White Helmets (also made AMPAS finalist list for shorts | now streaming)
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Producer: Joanna Natasegara
Netflix
Creative Recognition Award Winners
- Best Cinematography
Fire at Sea
Cinematography by: Gianfranco Rosi
Kino Lorber - Best Editing
Cameraperson
Edited by: Nels Bangerter
Janus Films - Best Writing
I Am Not Your Negro
Written by: James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
Magnolia Pictures - Best Music
The Bad Kids
Original Score by: Jacaszek
FilmRise, ITVS
ABC News VideoSource Award
- 13th
Director: Ava DuVernay
Netflix - I Am Not Your Negro
Director: Raoul Peck
Magnolia Pictures - The Lovers and the Despot (reviewed)
Director: Ross Adam and Robert Cannan
Magnolia Pictures - Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Directors: Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack
PBS, American Masters - Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (reviewed)
Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
Loki Films, Thirteen/WNET, Music Box Films, PBS, American MastersBest Curated Series Award
- BBC Storyville
Executive Producer: Nick Fraser
BBC TV - DR2 Dokumania
Executive Producer: Mette Hoffmann Meyer
DR TV - Independent Lens
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen
ITVS, PBS - Pacific Heartbeat
Executive Producers: Leanne Ferrer and Leslie Wilcox
American Public Television, Pacific Islanders in Communications - POV
Executive Producers: Justine Nagan and Chris White
POV, PBS
Best Limited Series Award
- Belief
Executive Producers: Sheri Salata, David Shadrack Smith, Jonathan Sinclair and Oprah Winfrey
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network - Cooked (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Caroline Suh, Michael Pollan and Stacey Offman
Netflix - The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Scott Boggins, Ken Druckerman, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon and Banks Tarver
Co-Executive Producers: Ted Bourne and Mary Robertson
Showtime - Making a Murderer (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi
Netflix - Streets of Compton (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Brad Abramson, Elaine Frontain Bryant, Mark Ford, The Game, Alan Grunblatt, Cash “Wack 100” Jones, Tara Long, Kevin Lopez, John Morayniss and Shelly Tatro
Entertainment One Reality Productions, Creature Films for A&E
Best Episodic Series Award
- Chef’s Table (now streaming)
Executive Producers: David Gelb, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard, Brian McGinn and Matthew Weaver
Netflix - The First 48 (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Elaine Frontain Bryant, Laura Fleury, John X. Kim, Alexis Robie and Peter Tarshis
Co-Executive Producers: Joey Grossfield and Maija Norris
A&E - Last Chance U (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Joe LaBracion and Greg Whiteley
Netflix - United Shades of America
Executive Producers: W. Kamau Bell, Jimmy Fox, Eli Holzman, Stephen Lambert, Star Price and Layla Smith
All3Media America, CNN Original Series, Objective Productions USA - Woman with Gloria Steinem (now streaming)
Executive Producers: Spike Jonze, Nomi Ernst Leidner, Eddy Moretti, Amy Richards, Shane Smith, Gloria Steinem and Ariel Wengroff
VICE Media for Viceland
Best Short Form Series Award
- 30:30 Shorts
Executive Producers: John Dahl, Libby Geist and Connor Schell
ESPN - Children Deported
Executive Producer: Christer Fasmer
VGTV - Field of Vision
Executive Producers: Charlotte Cook, Laura Poitras and AJ Schnack
Field of Vision - NomiNation
Executive Producers: Lisa Leingang, Adam Pincus and AJ Schnack
VANITY FAIR / VANITYFAIR.COM - The New York Times Op-Docs
Executive Producer: Kathleen Lingo
The New York Times
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
- 4.1 Miles (also made AMPAS finalist list for shorts)
Director: Daphne Matziaraki
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism - The Earth Did Not Speak
Director and Producer: Javier Briones
San Francisco State University - How History May Come
Director: Olesya Mazur
Sydney Film School - My Life As a Film- How My Father Tried to Capture Happiness
Director: Eva Vitija
Producers: Daniel Howald and Anita Wasser
Zurich University of the Arts - Transit Zone
Director: Frederik Subei
Edinburgh College of Art