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Emmy nominations in the doc categories are giving films passed over by the Oscars a shot at some trophies of their own. Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson, 76 Days, from director Hao Wu, and Welcome to Chechnya, directed by David France, earned nominations in the juried category of Outstanding Merit in…

The Oscar documentary shortlist abounds with memorable love stories—between a woman and her incarcerated husband in Time, between a man and a mollusk in My Octopus Teacher, and in Dick Johnson Is Dead, between a daughter and her aging father. Of those three films, Dick Johnson Is Dead qualifies as the most unusual…

The PGA is out with its documentary feature nominees for the 2021 Producers Guild Awards. Vying for the hardware are David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, Dick Johnson Is Dead, My Octopus Teacher, Softie, A Thousand Cuts, Time and The Truffle Hunters. Winners will be honored during the virtual 32nd annual…

Netflix has dominated the Oscar documentary race in recent years, winning best feature in both 2020 and 2018. But this year it could be Amazon Studios' Time to shine. Time, directed by Garrett Bradley and produced by Amazon in partnership with Concordia Studio, enters Oscar season as a favorite, having won prizes from…

UPDATED with video: Dick Johnson Is Dead director Kirsten Johnson has become all too familiar with the devastating impact of dementia. In 2007, her mother died of Alzheimer's. “Dementia will rip your heart out," she says at Deadline's Contenders Documentary awards-season event, "and you could just cry for decades if…

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…

There have been an unusually large amount of documentaries lately dealing in these perilous times with the thin line between life and death, but none of them can compete in that department with the sheer originality and bizarre take filmmaker Kirsten Johnson presents in Dick Johnson Is Dead. The title is provocative…