Documentary features are listed below by the award year, the year released under the Academy’s rules for eligibility.
Oscar: Best Documentaries (Award Winning Features)
August 29, 2020 by
A list of all the Oscar-winning documentary features, from 1941, when the category was established, to the present.
Oscar Directors: Friedkin, William–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography
August 28, 2020 by
August 28, 2020 William Friedkin Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: Social Class: nationality: Education: Training: First Film: First Oscar Nomination: Other Nominations: Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Last Film: Contract: Career Output: Career Span: Marriage: Politics: Retirement: Death: William Friedkin (August 29, 1935)[1] , American film and television director, producer and screenwriter identified with the “New Hollywood” […]
Oscar Directors: Frears, Stephen–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography
August 28, 2020 by
August 28, 2020 Stephen Frears Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: middle class; mother nurse; father accountant Social Class: Jewish (mother) Nationality: UK Education: Training: First Film: Gumshoe, 1971; age 30 Breakthrough: My Beautiful Laudrette, 1985; 34 First Oscar Nomination: Dangerous Liaisons, 1988; age 37 Other Nominations: The Queen; 2006; age 45 Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Last Film: […]
Oscar Directors: Forster, Marc–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography
August 28, 2020 by
Marc Forster August 28, 2020 Marc Forster Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: Social Class: Upper middle; doctor and architect Nationality: German; in NY at age 20 Education: NYU Training: First Film: experimental film, 1999; then Sundance, 2000, age 31 First Oscar Nomination: Finding Neverland, 2004; age 35 Other Nominations: No Genre (specialties): Variety Collaborators: writer Last […]
