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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…