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Tributes are pouring in for Oscar-winning filmmaker and French cultural icon Agnès Varda, who has died aged 90. In a statement sent to Deadline, Martin Scorsese said, "I seriously doubt that Agnès Varda ever followed in anyone else's footsteps, in any corner of her life or her art … which were one in the same. She…

For a documentary that has won numerous awards and enters the Oscar homestretch a strong contender, Faces Places began modestly enough. "We didn’t aim big at the beginning, we aimed to just work together and do it on a scale that would be small enough that it would be no pressure and we could have fun," co-director JR…

In a year of firsts for the Academy Awards, more history is being made in the ranks of Best Documentary Feature than perhaps any other category. Take Agnès Varda, for starters—co-director of Faces Places with artist-photographer JR. At age 89 she may well qualify as the oldest nominee in a competitive category in…

One of the most unpredictable races in years for the Oscar for Documentary Feature has come down to 15 films, narrowed from a record-breaking tally of 170 qualifiers. Two films on Syria's civil war made the cut—Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts, about the ISIS takeover of Raqqa, and Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo…

Usually by this stage of awards season, a couple of documentaries have emerged as solid favorites. Last year, it was O.J.: Made in America and I Am Not Your Negro. The year before, Amy and The Look of Silence. This year, it looks like anybody's game. "It’s a much more open field this year in terms of what’s being…