Top TV honor goes to Netflix's "Making A Murderer"
Director Ezra Edelman’s O.J.: Made in America won the best feature documentary honor at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards held last night on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. The eight-hour documentary premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, enjoyed a theatrical run on both coasts and ran in multiple parts on ESPN (as part of its 30 for 30 presentation) and ABC.
Taking the Best Limited Series Award, TV, was Netflix’s Making a Murderer. Netflix also scored in the Best Episodic Series Award and Best Short Award categories, respectively, for Last Chance U and The White Helmets.
Here’s a full rundown of the night’s winners as well as previously announced special honors and craft/creative recognition honorees:
Best Feature Award
O.J.: Made in America
Director: Ezra Edelman
Producers: Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Nina Krstic, Erin Leyden, Tamara Rosenberg, Connor Schell and Caroline Waterlow
ESPN
Best Short Award
The White Helmets
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Producer: Joanna Natasegara
NETFLIX
Best Curated Series Award
DR2 Dokumania
Executive Producer: Mette Hoffmann Meyer
DR TV
Best Limited Series Award
Making a Murderer
Executive Producers: Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi
NETFLIX
Best Episodic Series Award
Last Chance U
Executive Producers: Joe LaBracio, Dawn Ostroff, Lucas Smith, James Stern and Greg Whiteley
NETFLIX
Best Short Form Series Award
Field Of Vision
Executive Producers: Charlotte Cook, Laura Poitras and AJ Schnack
FIELD OF VISION
David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award
THIS AWARD RECOGNIZES EXCEPTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION FILM AND VIDEO PRODUCTION AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL AND BRINGS GREATER PUBLIC AND INDUSTRY AWARENESS TO THE WORK OF STUDENTS IN THE DOCUMENTARY FIELD.
4.1 Miles
Director: Daphne Matziaraki
UC BERKELEY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
ABC News VideoSource Award
THIS AWARD IS GIVEN EACH YEAR FOR THE BEST USE OF NEWS FOOTAGE AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT IN A DOCUMENTARY.
13th
Director: Ava DuVernay
NETFLIX
Pare Lorentz Award Winner
THE PARE LORENTZ AWARD RECOGNIZES FILMS THAT DEMONSTRATE EXEMPLARY FILMMAKING WHILE FOCUSING ON THE APPROPRIATE USE OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, JUSTICE FOR ALL AND THE ILLUMINATION OF PRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
Starless Dreams
Director: Mehrdad Oskouei
THE CINEMA GUILD
Creative Recognition Award Winners
THE CREATIVE RECOGNITION CATEGORY RECOGNIZES SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY, EDITING, MUSIC AND WRITING IN FILMS ENTERED IN THE FEATURE CATEGORY.
Best Cinematography
Fire at Sea
Cinematography by: Gianfranco Rosi
KINO LORBER
Best Editing
Cameraperson
Edited by: Nels Bangerter
JANUS FILMS
Best Writing
I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin material compiled and edited by Raoul Peck
MAGNOLIA PICTURES, INDEPENDENT LENS
Best Music
The Bad Kids
Original Score by: Jacaszek
FILMRISE, ITVS
SPECIAL HONOREES
Career Achievement Award
Stanley Nelson
Pioneer Award
Ally Derks
Amicus Award
Lyn and Norman Lear
Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award
Nanfu Wang
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More