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…