The 2021 Critics Alternative Documentary Awards are being handed out Sunday in Brooklyn.
Going into the ceremony, two movies from first-time administrators have been tied for essentially the most nominations with six apiece: Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension and Questlove’s Summer season of Soul.
Summer season of Soul gained the primary award of the evening for finest first documentary characteristic. “I’ve been on this trade for 30-plus years and I at all times thought celebrating one thing was a weak point. When my first album got here out or when my first guide got here out or my first day of educating class, I kind of simply pushed it to the facet prefer it was nothing. I’ve realized that it’s protected to have fun an achievement so how ironic that this new journey in my life begins now,” Questlove stated in his acceptance speech.
One other two movies have been every nominated for 5 awards: Liz Garbus’ Changing into Cousteau and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s The Rescue. Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers, Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground and Leo Scott and Ting Poo’s Val Kilmer exploration Val have been every nominated for 4 awards.
After profitable the award for finest historic or biographical documentary for Val, Poo and Scott devoted the award to Kilmer.
Ascension, Summer season of Soul, Changing into Cousteau and The Rescue are all up for the highest prize of finest documentary characteristic together with three-time nominees Attica; The Crime of the Century; Introducing, Selma Blair; My Identify is Pauli Murray; two-time nominees A Crime on the Bayou and Flee; and single nominees The Misplaced Leonardo and Procession.
Moreover R.J. Cutler, whose most up-to-date movie is Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, which is up for finest music documentary, is about to obtain the D.A. Pennebaker Award, from Chris Hegedus, the longtime accomplice of the award’s late namesake, D.A. Pennebaker.
The sixth annual awards, an offshoot of the Critics Alternative Awards, are being hosted by The Every day Present‘s Roy Wooden Jr. at BRIC in Brooklyn. The honors acknowledge the very best theatrical, TV and digital documentaries.
Whereas the documentary group wasn’t in a position to collect final yr as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, 2020’s high winner was Dick Johnson Is Lifeless, with filmmaker Kirsten Johnson additionally profitable finest director.
A listing of this yr’s winners, up to date as they’re introduced dwell, follows.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension (MTV Documentary Movies)
Attica (Showtime)
Changing into Cousteau (Picturehouse/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
The Crime of the Century (HBO Documentary Movies)
A Crime on the Bayou (Augusta Movies/Shout! Studios)
Flee (Neon/Participant)
Introducing, Selma Blair (Discovery+)
The Misplaced Leonardo (Sony Photos Classics)
My Identify is Pauli Murray (Amazon Studios)
Procession (Netflix)
The Rescue (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Summer season of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised) (Searchlight Photos/Hulu)
BEST DIRECTOR
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin – The Rescue (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Liz Garbus – Changing into Cousteau (Picturehouse/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Jessica Kingdon – Ascension (MTV Documentary Movies)
Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry – Attica (Showtime)
Jonas Poher Rasmussen – Flee (Neon/Participant)
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer season of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised) (Searchlight Photos/Hulu)
Edgar Wright – The Sparks Brothers (Focus Options)
BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson – Summer season of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised) (Searchlight Photos/Hulu) (WINNER)
Jessica Beshir – Faya Dayi (Janus Movies)
Rachel Fleit – Introducing, Selma Blair (Discovery+)
Todd Haynes – The Velvet Underground (Apple TV+)
Jessica Kingdon – Ascension (MTV Documentary Movies)
Kristine Stolakis – Pray Away (Netflix)
Edgar Wright – The Sparks Brothers (Focus Options)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jessica Beshir – Faya Dayi (Janus Movies)
Jonathan Griffith, Brett Lowell and Austin Siadak – The Alpinist (Roadside Points of interest)
David Katznelson, Ian Seabrook and Picha Srisansanee – The Rescue (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Jessica Kingdon and Nathan Truesdell – Ascension (MTV Documentary Movies)
Nelson Hume and Alan Jacobsen – The Loneliest Whale: The Seek for 52 (Bleecker Road Media)
Emiliano Villanueva – A Cop Film (Netflix)
Pete West – Puff: Wonders of the Reef (Netflix)
BEST EDITING
Francisco Bello, Matthew Heineman, Gabriel Rhodes and David Zieff – The First Wave (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Jeff Consiglio – LFG (HBO Max and CNN Movies)
Bob Eisenhardt – The Rescue (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Affonso Gonçalves and Adam Kurnitz – The Velvet Underground (Apple TV+)
Jessica Kingdon – Ascension (MTV Documentary Movies)
Joshua L. Pearson – Summer season of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised) (Searchlight Photos/Hulu)
Julian Quantrill – The Actual Charlie Chaplin (Showtime)
BEST NARRATION
9/11: Contained in the President’s Struggle Room (Apple TV+)
Jeff Daniels, Narrator
Changing into Cousteau (Picturehouse/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Vincent Cassel, Narrator
Mark Monroe and Pax Wassermann, Writers
The Crime of the Century (HBO Documentary Movies)
Alex Gibney, Narrator & Author
The Impartial Floor (PBS)
CJ Hunt, Narrator & Author
The Actual Charlie Chaplin (Showtime)
Pearl Mackie, Narrator
Oliver Kindeberg, Peter Middleton and James Spinney, Writers
Val (Amazon Studios)
Jack Kilmer, Narrator
Val Kilmer, Author
The Yr Earth Modified (Apple TV+)
David Attenborough, Narrator
BEST SCORE
Jongnic Bontemps – My Identify is Pauli Murray (Amazon Studios)
Dan Deacon – Ascension (MTV Documentary Movies)
Alex Lasarenko and David Little – The Loneliest Whale: The Seek for 52 (Bleecker Road Media)
Cyrus Melchor – LFG (HBO/CNN)
Daniel Pemberton – The Rescue (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Rachel Portman – Julia (Sony Photos Classics)
Dirac Sea – Closing Account (Focus Options)
BEST ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTARY
Changing into Cousteau (Picturehouse/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
The Actual Charlie Chaplin (Showtime)
The Actual Proper Stuff (Disney+)
Road Gang: How We Obtained to Sesame Road (HBO Documentary Movies)
Summer season of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised) (Searchlight Photos/Hulu)
Val (Amazon Studios)
The Velvet Underground (Apple TV+)
BEST HISTORICAL OR BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY
Val (Amazon Studios) (WINNER)
Attica (Showtime)
A Crime on the Bayou (Augusta Movies/Shout! Studios)
Fauci (Magnolia Photos/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Closing Account (Focus Options)
Julia (Sony Photos Classics)
My Identify is Pauli Murray (Amazon Studios)
No Atypical Man (Oscilloscope)
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (Apple TV+)
Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James (Showtime)
Listening to Kenny G (HBO Documentary Movies)
The Sparks Brothers (Focus Options)
Summer season of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised) (Searchlight Photos/Hulu)
Tina (HBO Documentary Movies)
The Velvet Underground (Apple TV+)
BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
The Crime of the Century (HBO Documentary Movies)
Enemies of the State (IFC Movies)
4 Hours on the Capitol (HBO Documentary Movies)
Affect (StoryScope, EyeSteelFilm)
Mayor Pete (Amazon Studios)
Lacking in Brooks County (Large Photos)
Nasrin (Hulu)
Not Going Quietly (Greenwich Leisure)
BEST SCIENCE/NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Changing into Cousteau (Picturehouse/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies) (WINNER)
Fauci (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
The First Wave (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
The Loneliest Whale: The Seek for 52 (Bleecker Road Media)
Taking part in with Sharks (Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Puff: Wonders of the Reef (Netflix)
The Yr Earth Modified (Apple TV+)
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
The Alpinist (Roadside Points of interest)
Altering the Sport (Hulu)
The Day Sports activities Stood Nonetheless (HBO)
Kevin Garnett: Something is Attainable (Showtime)
LFG (HBO Max/CNN Movies)
Tiger (HBO)
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
The Queen of Basketball (The New York Occasions)(WINNER)
Audible (Netflix)
Borat’s American Lockdown (Amazon Studios)
Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis (Netflix)
Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol (The New York Occasions)
The Doll (Leaping Ibex)
The Final Cruise (HBO Documentary Movies)
Snowy (TIME Studios)
MOST COMPELLING LIVING SUBJECTS OF A DOCUMENTARY (HONOR)
Ady Barkan – Not Going Quietly (Greenwich Leisure)
Selma Blair – Introducing, Selma Blair (Discovery+)
Pete Buttigieg – Mayor Pete (Amazon Studios)
Anthony Fauci – Fauci (Magnolia Photos/Nationwide Geographic Documentary Movies)
Ben Fong-Torres – Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Occasions of Ben Fong-Torres (StudioLA.TV)
Val Kilmer – Val (Amazon Studios)
Ron and Russell Mael – The Sparks Brothers (Focus Options)
Rita Moreno – Rita Moreno: Only a Lady Who Determined to Go For It (Roadside Points of interest)
Valerie Taylor – Taking part in With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (Disney+)
