“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is wanting an increasing number of just like the frontrunner within the Oscars’ documentary race. Laura Poitras’ newest has been named Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The documentary about artist and activist Nan Goldin’s makes an attempt to carry the Sackler household accountable for the opioid epidemic world premiered at Venice Film Festival, the place it took house the fest’s high prize, the Golden Lion.
Since then, the movie’s been racking up awards and noms, receiving love from the Indie Spirit Awards, IDA Documentary Awards, and Cinema Eye Honors, amongst others. More lately, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” landed honors from Boston Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Online.
Poitras beforehand gained an Oscar for “Citizenfour” and acquired a nod for “My Country, My Country.” The former focuses on whistleblower Edward Snowden and the latter explores the United States’ invasion of Iraq.
Other women-directed doc contenders this yr embrace Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love,” a portrait of volcanologists and married couple Katia and Maurice Krafft, and Magaret Brown’s “Descendant,” the story of the final ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States.
Head over to Variety to take a look at all the winners from the he LAFCA, Boston Society of Film Critics, and New York Film Critics Online.