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White men have long dominated the Directing For a Drama Series Emmy category. Female and Black helmers did not land first nominations until three decades after the category’s 1955 inception (Thomas Carter in 1984, Karen Arthur in 1985) This year, for the first time ever, the majority of drama directing nominations…

Emmy voters may give an involuntary shudder while poring over potential nominees in the documentary categories. They abound with tales of mass murderers and eldritch crime: John Wayne Gacy, the Manson Family, the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, the Australian serial killer known as the Night Caller, and the Golden…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is doubling down on its investment in the GameStop story with a new documentary series from Emmy and Oscar-winning filmmakers Dan Cogan and Liz Garbus. The streamer has ordered and is in production on a series that tells the viral story of rebel retail traders taking on Wall Street – a David vs…

Before he left office, former President Trump spent weeks making false claims of massive voter fraud in the 2020 election, alleging that's what cost him victory. On November 27, for example, Trump implied in a tweet that chicanery had taken place in Detroit ("…more votes than people!"), Philadelphia, Atlanta and…

"I think that for so many people that have been victims of voter suppression, they thought it was singular," says All In: The Fight for Democracy co-director Lisa Cortés on the brutal and conniving forces that try to deny citizens their rights. "What our film does is it places these individuals within this broader…

UPDATED with video: Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams plays a central role in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, directed by Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés, but the film from Amazon Studios shouldn't be construed as "The Stacey Abrams Story." The film has a bigger focus in mind, the…

Georgia’s Senate runoff races on Tuesday will determine control of the chamber, a hugely important vote that could determine the extent to which President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris can enact their agenda. That fact has been top of mind as Democratic showbiz activists pour money and time…

With the 2020 presidential election less than three months away, Amazon Studios revisits Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race with the trailer for its latest political doc All In: The Fight for Democracy. The film from Oscar-nominated filmmakers Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés takes a closer look at voter suppression in the…

Thirty years ago, Levon Brooks was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year old girl in Mississippi. Despite having an alibi, he was sentenced to life in prison based on bite mark analysis. A few months, later a second young girl was raped and murdered and Kennedy Brewer, the boyfriend of the victim's…

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Nix was supposed to board a flight to Copenhagen today, en route to the CPH:DOX festival to pitch her latest project. But the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly forced that event to shift online only, one of countless ways the coronavirus emergency is impacting the documentary…

One of the most celebrated documentarians of our time, known for such films as Who Killed Garrett Phillips? and What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus makes her narrative feature debut this year with Lost Girls—a harrowing drama, based on a 2013 true-crime novel by Robert Kolker. Starring Amy Ryan, Oona Laurence…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic has set its next documentary, which will focus on famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. Two-time Oscar-nominated and two-time Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (The Farm, Angola USA, What Happened, Miss Simone?) will direct and produce, with Oscar winner Dan Cogan (Icarus) as producer…