Topic: Academy Awards
TORONTO (Reuters) - Death row, Sarah Palin, and wannabe Vulcans are some of the topics audiences can explore this year through the Toronto International Film Festival's documentary line up, announced on Wednesday.The 10-day festival opens on September 8 and includes world premier ...
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on Wednesday, doctors said.Getty photographer Chris Hondros was in critical condition in intensive care, doctors at the hospital where he ...
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on Wednesday, doctors said.Getty photographer Chris Hondros was in critical condition in intensive care, doctors at the hospital where he ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Inside Job," a film blaming financial institutions for triggering the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, won the Academy Award for best documentary on Sunday.The prize went to director/producer Charles Ferguson, who recently won the documentary prize ...
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Violence inflicted on Iranian protesters, big business infiltrating the U.S. justice system and an inspiring portrait of race car driver Ayrton Senna are all subjects of documentaries that are winning fans at Sundance 2011.More than two dozen ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the 82-year history of the Academy Awards, no documentary has been nominated for best picture.Instead, since 1942, documentary features have been recognized in their own category, separate from the balloons and confetti showered on the best ...
Taxi to the Dark Side is an Academy Award -winning documentary film that examines U.S. torture and interrogation practices of prisoners at in Afghanistan , Iraq and Guantanamo Bay , through the investigation into the death of an Afghan taxi driver. Adolf ...
Man on Wire won the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award at the 2009 Oscars on February 22 , 2009 . James Marsh , Simon Chinn and Philippe Petit accepted the award. Petit, who spoke last, balanced the Oscar award on his chin ...
The Best Documentary Nominees Documentary - Feature Anders ?stergaard and Lise Lense-M?ller for Burma VJ - VJ stands for video journalists, who shot this shaky and sometime blurred footage with cameras small enough to be concealed in times of threat and danger. ...
The word SLUM became famous after the film by name SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE which won several Oscars.My friend went and adopted a Slum Home and gave them what ever they needed like cooking gas connection,a electric table fan and school fee for ...
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84th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement
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