Overview
- The Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced nominees Tuesday, and 14th received the most nods with six including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director for Ava DuVernay.
- Three films—You Can See Everything, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, and Nuisance Bear—each earned five nominations, while a full ten-film field was named for Best Documentary Feature.
- The slate covers political, historical, biographical, nature and archival films and shows Netflix leading distributors with the largest share of nominations.
- Winners will be revealed at a Nov. 8 gala at Manhattan’s Edison Ballroom where Ron Howard will receive the Impact Award and Jehane Noujaim will be given the Pennebaker Award.
- Nominees were selected by volunteer committees from the Critics Choice Association’s membership of more than 500 critics and entertainment journalists, a group whose picks have sometimes overlapped with the Academy’s documentary choices but have trended toward more mainstream U.S. films.