It's harder than it looks, as we take you through the year's top documentary Oscar contenders and how they got here.

It is no secret how, in recent years, IDFA has become a hotbed for Oscars campaigning for Best Documentary Feature and Best Short Documentary. Timing-wise, the Dutch festival is at the perfect place ...

How do you make a documentary when you can't film in person — and even hiring a cameraperson is risky? That was the challenge for the award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left the country ...

At the 2025 edition of CPH:DOX, extreme political tension in the U.S. and parts of Europe cast a cloud of uncertainty over the Copenhagen-based documentary film festival. While nonfiction films that ...

Martin Scorsese is no stranger to the documentary world. Not only has he found the time to direct a handful himself, but he’s featured as a talking head in more documentaries than you could possibly ...

“I told Steven, ‘We have to do this film. This is not a why. It’s a why not,’” Laurent Bouzereau says of his conversations with the ‘Jaws’ director. By Beatrice Verhoeven Awards Editor Turns out, all ...