Caitrin Rogers, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "20 Feet from Stardom”, Zachary Heinzerling, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "Cutie and the Boxer”, Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill, directors of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "Dirty Wars”, Lydia Dean Pilcher, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "Cutie and the Boxer”, Morgan Neville, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "20 Feet from Stardom”, Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen, directors of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "The Act of Killing”, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, directors of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature "The Square”, prior to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' “Oscar Celebrates: Docs” event on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Oscars® will be presented on Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® in Hollywood, CA and televised live by the ABC Television Network.
Oscar week was jam-packed with events including celebrating documentaries. Interestingly, we’ve heard at the many events we attended this week that the sentiment about documentaries are changing and they are becoming more mainstream viewing than in the past…
This is good news as these Oscar-nominated documentaries are excellent and we recommend viewing by all…
Here’s this year’s Oscar-nominated Directors
Caitrin Rogers, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “20 Feet from Stardom”, Zachary Heinzerling, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “Cutie and the Boxer”, Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill, directors of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “Dirty Wars”, Lydia Dean Pilcher, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “Cutie and the Boxer”, Morgan Neville, director of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “20 Feet from Stardom”, Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen, directors of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “The Act of Killing”, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, directors of the Oscar®-nominated Documentary Feature “The Square”, prior to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Oscar Celebrates: Docs” event on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Oscars® will be presented on Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® in Hollywood, CA and televised live by the ABC Television Network.
Oscar Week: Documentary Panel
The Square
We Spoke with Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim about their Oscar-nominated Doc: “The Square” which has gotten a lot of buzz this year. Here’s their interview:
We wish all Oscar-nominated documentary directors the best!
