The Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, which present the Critics’ Choice Awards, are extending their awards season reach with the launch of a documentary awards competition which will recognize documentary features and non-fiction television.
The nominees will be selected by committees of BFCA and BTJA members and announced on Oct. 10. Full memberships of the two organizations will then choose the winners who will be revealed and honored during an awards ceremony slated for BRIC in Brooklyn, NY, on Nov. 3.
Up until now, there had been documentary and non-fiction categories in the annual Critics’ Choice Awards. Those categories will shift over to the new competition dedicated to documentary and non-fiction fare. (The Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony continues to take place in January.)
Among the new competition’s categories will be Best Documentary Feature, Best Director of a Documentary, Best 1st Documentary Feature, Best Sports Documentary, Best Music Documentary, Best Limited Docu Series for TV, Best Ongoing Docu Series for TV, Best Unstructured Reality Series, Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary, Best Investigative Journalist and Most Innovative Documentary.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More