The Awards Season is in full swing with various organizations announcing their respective award nominations and winners and hence, setting the stage and more or less, forecasting for what is to come at the Ninetieth Academy Awards. With that said, the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) recently announced the winners of the second annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards at a gala event, which was hosted by Penn Jillette at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York. The aforementioned event included guests ranging from Dolores Huerta to Diane Warren.
Best Documentary: Jane
Best Director (TIE): Evgeny Afineevsky, Cries from Syria and Frederick Wiseman, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Best First Documentary: Kedi
Best Political Documentary: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Best Sports Documentary: Icarus
Best Music Documentary: Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Best Song in a Documentary: “Jump”featured in Step , written by Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson and Laura Karpman, performed by Cynthia Erivo
Best Documentary Series: The Vietnam War
Best Ongoing Documentary Series: American Masters
Most Innovative Documentary (TIE): Dawson City: Frozen Time and Last Men in Aleppo
