Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘Ascension’ and ‘Summer of Soul’ Lead Critics Choice Documentary Nominations
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy EditorThe Critics Choice Association has announced nominees for the sixth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards.The awards cover documentaries released in theaters, on TV and on major digital platforms.
The awards gala takes place Nov. 14 in Brooklyn, N.Y.“Ascension” and “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), both from first-time documentarians, led the nominations with six each. “Becoming Cousteau” and “The Rescue” both received five nods each.“This has been and continues to be a fantastic year for documentary storytelling.
And the number of first-time feature documentarians in the mix of nominees, alongside proven veterans, shows that nonfiction cinema continues to have a very bright.
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