Searching for Sugar Man - the true story of 1970s rocker Rodriguez - won best documentary.
Can anything beat Inocente or Mondays at Racine for Best Documentary Short?
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It earned a well-deserved Academy Award nomination, and won the award for Best Documentary at Sundance.
That 2006 film became one of the highest-grossing documentaries in history, and won the Academy Award for best documentary.
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Fry, whose series Stephen Fry: In America scooped best documentary, said winning the special recognition award was a surprise.
Best documentary went to Dan Krauss's The Kill Team, about a group of US soldiers charged with killing Afghan civilians.
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Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has become the first Pakistani to win an Oscar nomination for best documentary in the short subject category.
Like all the best documentary filmmakers, she does her subjects the honor of allowing them to retain some of their mystery.
Meanwhile, in the best documentary category, Bart Layton's thriller The Imposter is up against Kevin Macdonald's biopic of the reggae legend, Marley.
She won the award for best documentary in the short subject category for her film Saving Face, about acid attacks on women.
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For the "real" realities of high-school sports, one can turn to "Undefeated, " a current Oscar nominee for best documentary and a political film by default.
The film also is nominated for best documentary at the Oscars.
Bergen, one of the producers of the CNN documentary, which was named the best documentary of 2006 by the Society of Professional Journalists and was nominated for an Emmy.
Searching For Sugar Man has also been nominated for a best documentary Bafta and won the audience awards at both the Sundance and Los Angeles film festivals.
The movie's Oscar win for best documentary has led to yet another career rebirth as Americans now discover the songs he wrote more than four decades ago.
The Oscar category for Best Documentary Feature has long been controversial for frequently omitting some of the most acclaimed, well-known, and successful documentaries over the many years.
On Monday night, I had a chance to attend a screening of Saving Face, the film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short last month.
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Alex Gibney, meanwhile, received the best documentary award for Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a hard-hitting exploration of sexual abuse within the Catholic church.
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The Imposter, a real-life tale of a missing American boy and the foreign-accented man who - years later - claimed to be him, was named best documentary.
This year, I felt certain the race for the Best Documentary Feature award was between two exceptional films that were of great relevance, great emotional impact, and all-around superb filmmaking.
The Academy should try to bring more flair and variety to the Best Documentary Features category, and pay more attention to innovations in the genre and to filmmaking in general.
Searching for Sugar Man, which tells the story of musician Rodriguez who disappeared from public view in the early 1970s but developed a cult following in South Africa, won the Oscar for best documentary.
Inside Job, about the financial crisis, won Best Documentary.
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The Grierson Award will be given to the best documentary while the inaugural best British newcomer award for writers, producers and directors will also be presented at the ceremony, which will be hosted by Paul Gambaccini.
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Named the Best Documentary of the year by the National Board of Review, and cited by the American Film Institute as one of the year's best movies, WAITING FOR "SUPERMAN" was called "an electrifying call to action" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), and has launched a movement to achieve real and lasting change in the nation's schools.
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