O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films) topped the inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards this evening (11/3), winning four categories: Best Documentary Feature, Best Direction of a Documentary Feature for Ezra Edelman, Best Limited Documentary Series, and Best Sports Documentary. The awards gala was held at BRIC in Brooklyn.
Also scoring impressively was 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films), which took honors for Best Documentary Feature (TV/Streaming), Best Political Documentary and Best Director (TV/Streaming) for Ava DuVernay.
Here’s a full rundown of winners:
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
30 For 30: O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
BEST DIRECTION OF A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ezra Edelman – 30 For 30: O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
BEST FIRST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg – Weiner (Sundance Selects/Motto Pictures/Edgeline Films)
BEST POLITICAL DOCUMENTARY
13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE (TV/STREAMING)
13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
BEST DIRECTOR (TV/STREAMING)
Ava DuVernay – 13th (Netflix/Kandoo Films)
BEST FIRST FEATURE (TV/STREAMING)
TIE BETWEEN:
Everything is Copy – Jacob Bernstein and Nick Hooker (HBO/Loveless)
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four – Deborah Esquenazi (Investigation Discovery/Motto Pictures/Naked Edge Films)
BEST LIMITED DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 For 30: O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
BEST ONGOING DOCUMENTARY SERIES
30 for 30 (ESPN)
BEST SPORTS DOCUMENTARY
30 For 30: O.J.: Made in America (ESPN/Laylow Films)
BEST MUSIC DOCUMENTARY
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (White Horse Pictures/Imagine Entertainment/Apple Corps/ Hulu)
MOST INNOVATIVE DOCUMENTARY
Tower (Kino Lorber/ITVS/Meredith Vieira Productions/GTS Films/Diana DiMenna Film
BEST SONG IN A DOCUMENTARY
“I’m Still Here” – Miss Sharon Jones! – Written by Sharon Jones – Performed by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Cabin Creek Films/Starz Digital Media)
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More