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Dick Johnson Is Dead, Netflix’s personal documentary exploring a daughter’s look into the decline of her aging father, took top honors from the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards for Best Documentary Feature as well as Best Director for Kirsten Johnson. The awards, which were spread out among several winners, saw no…

In what is signaling a very good year for documentaries, the Critics’ Choice Association on Monday announced its list of nominations for the fifth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, and if the past is any clue it could be an indicator of what to expect from the Oscars next spring. With an inclusive list, to…

The trophies for the fourth annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were handed out on Sunday with Neon’s Apollo 11 taking Best Documentary Feature. The ceremony took place at BRIC in Brooklyn. Neon was the top winner of the night with the space docu, winning five awards. Their docu The Biggest Little Farm walked…

Farm animals, the historic moon landing and World War I veterans back to vivid life top the nominations for the fourth annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. The Biggest Little Farm leads this year with seven nominations, including Best Documentary Feature, John Chester for Best Director and noms for Best…

Filmmaker Michael Moore was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Won’t You Be My Neighbor won the Best Documentary and Best Director categories at the third annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards, held last night at BRIC in Brooklyn. Robert De Niro presented the award to Moore right before rushing off…

The winners for the third annual Critics' Choice Documentary Awards were announced Saturday with Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? taking the top honor of Best Documentary. The winners were determined by members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Associati…

The perilous attempt by climber Alex Honnold to become the first person ever to scale and solo climb Yosemite’s 3000 foot high El Capitan Mountain with no ropes or safety gear is chronicled in the documentary Free Solo, a film that has climbed the list of nominees with six nods (and one honor) for the 2018 Critics Choi…

Michael Moore, whose latest documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 just hit theaters, has been chosen to receive the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor will be bestowed November 10 at the third annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards in New York. The event, put on by the Broadcast Film Critics Association…

A documentary about the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees and another about the cats of Istanbul took two of the top prizes tonight at the second annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Jane, about chimp maven Jane Goodall, won Best Documentary at the Penn Gillette-hosted ceremony in Brooklyn, and Kedi dragged…

Kedi, an extraordinary documentary about the street cats of Istanbul, leads all contenders in nominations for the second annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, set for November 2 at BRIC in Brooklyn. With nods for Best Documentary, Best First Documentary, Most Innovative Documentary, Best Director for Ceyda Torun…

Ezra Edelman’s seven-hour O.J.: Made in America and Ava Duvernay’s 13th lapped the field at the inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Both won the Best Documentary and Best Director prizes — for film and TV, respectively — with O.J. winning four trophies and 13th nabbing three. They both came into tonight’s…

With five nominations apiece, Netflix and  Ava DuVernay’s 13th, ESPN’s seven-hour O.J.: Made in America, and Amazon and Open Road’s Gleason lead the list of nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association’s inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, which…