Dick Johnson Is-Dead: Last News

The Producers Guild of America has announced the documentary nominees for the 2021 Producers Guild Awards. The nominees for outstanding producer of documentary motion pictures are, in alphabetical order, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, Dick Johnson Is Dead, My Octopus Teacher, Softie, A Thousand Cuts, Time and The Truffle Hunters.

Dick Johnson Is Dead director Kirsten Johnson has become all too familiar with the devastating impact of dementia. In 2007, her mother died of Alzheimer’s.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticDick Johnson Is Dead, Netflix’s personal documentary exploring a daughter’s look into the decline of her aging father, took top honors from the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards for Best Documentary Feature as well as Best Director for Kirsten Johnson.The awards, which were spread out among several winners, saw no single docu dominate, and in fact another Netflix film, My Octopus Teacher, was the only other film to win more than one trophy, taking Best Science/Nature Docu and Best Cinematography.Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and Gunda had led the nominations with five each but were shut out. Mr.

Jordan Moreau The fifth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards announced the 2020 winners Monday morning, honoring “Dick Johnson Is Dead” for best documentary feature as well as the film’s Kirsten Johnson for best director.The film focuses on Richard Johnson, the director’s father, who suffers from dementia and imagines different ways in which he could die with a darkly comedic tone. The film premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the special jury award for innovation in non-fiction storytelling.“My Octopus Teacher” took home two awards for best cinematography and best science/nature documentary.Like most award shows this year, the Critics Choice Doc Awards had to go virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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