Tag: Moonage Daydream

  • The State of the Documentary Race

    The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced their nominations on November 11th and the Critics Choice Association announced their winners for the Documentary Awards (CCDA) on November 13th. We’re now up to four major nomination announcements for documentaries: Critics Choice (which announced winners yesterday), Gotham, Cinema Eye, and International Doc Association. Not one documentary had their…

  • Hollywood Music in Media (HMMA) and British Independent Film (BIFA) Nominations Reaction

    We had two very different nominations announcements in as many days recently, so let’s try to discern if there is any insight to be gained from these announcements. Although these two voting bodies couldn’t be more different, the commonality is they award more points to players on the waiver wire than on actual teams. This…

  • The Most Complicated Category: Documentary

    Documentaries have a complicated history during the film awards season. Last year was somewhat an exception with Flee and Summer of Soul getting nominations and wins at pretty much every single awards announcements. Flee was a triple threat by being an animated international documentary and Summer of Soul was nearly as valuable getting more wins…