‘Fire Of Love’, ‘Good Night Oppy’ Top Nominees For Critics Choice Documentary Awards

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Kicking off the nomination season, ‘Fire Of Love’ with seven and ‘Good Night Oppy’ with six lead all comers in nominations for the 7th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards.

Both are nominated in the marquee Best Documentary Feature category and also will square off against each other for Best Director, Music Score, Editing, Narration, and Science/Nature docu. ‘Fire Of Love’ which is the adventure love story of a pair of Volcano hunters and scientists also is a contender for Best Archival docu. ‘Oppy’ which comes from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin and Amazon Studios, with special effects via Industrial Light & Magic has been on the Fall fest circuit and will open in theatres November 4 before streaming on Amazon three weeks later.

It chronicles the 14+ Mars Rover mission and is a tear-jerking story that plays like a cross between The Martian and Wall-E.‘Fire Of Love’ has been in theatrical release from National Georgraphic Films and NEON which picked it up after a Sundance debut.

Other nominees for Best Docu Feature are Hulu’s Aftershock; The Automat; Netflix’s The Descendant; Briarcliff Entertainment’s Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down; HBO’s The Janes; HBO/NEON’s David Bowie docu Moonage Daydream; HBO, CNN, and Warner Bros.