The nominations are in for the seventh annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, and Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love” leads the pack with a whopping seven noms. Her tribute to volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft is up for honors equivalent to Best Documentary Feature, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Score.
Of 10 titles vying for Best Film, six are helmed by ladies. Besides “Fire of Love,” different women-directed nominees embrace “Descendant,” Margaret Brown’s investigation into the final slave ship to reach within the United State, and “Aftershock,” Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s look contained in the maternal well being disaster and the position that systemic racism performs in it.
Three of eight Best Director nominees are ladies: becoming a member of Dosa and Brown is Laura Poitras, who’s being acknowledged for “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” a tribute to artist Nan Goldin and her makes an attempt to carry the Sackler household accountable for the Opioid disaster.
The Best First Documentary Feature contains eight nominees, 4 of whom are ladies. Andrea Arnold’s “Cow,” a portrait of a dairy cow, is among the many contenders.
The Critics Choice Documentary Awards will happen November 13. Check out all of the women-directed choices up for Best Documentary Feature, Best Director, and Best First Documentary Feature and head to Variety for an entire listing of classes and nominees. Other ladies up for honors embrace Katharina Wartena (Best Editing, “Three Minutes: A Lengthening”) and Magda Kowalczyk (Best Cinematography, “Cow”).
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Aftershock (Hulu/Onyx Collective)
The Automat (A Slice of Pie Productions)
Descendant (Netflix)
Fire of Love (National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon)
Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (Briarcliff Entertainment)
The Janes (HBO)
BEST DIRECTOR
Margaret Brown – Descendant (Netflix)
Sara Dosa – Fire of Love (National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon)
Laura Poitras – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (HBO/Neon)
BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Andrea Arnold – Cow (IFC Films)
Lisa Hurwitz – The Automat (A Slice of Pie Productions)
Amy Poehler – Lucy and Desi (Amazon Studios)
Bianca Stigter – Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Neon)
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