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Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s abortion documentary “Zurawski v Texas” garnered the inaugural Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The new award honors one film that transforms our culture and challenges the status quo.

Executive produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, “Zurawski v Texas” follows a group of women who, in 2023, band together to sue the state of Texas after being denied abortions despite pregnancy health risks.

Crow and Perrault will receive a $15,000 cash award, which the directors can use in whatever capacity they choose. The 98-minute doc, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September, is seeking distribution.

“Our hope for this film has always been to reach as wide an audience as possible to educate, challenge, and inspire viewers through our film participants’ vulnerability and strength,” Crow and Perrault said in a joint statement. “This award...

Few horror movies are as fantastic or as retroactively controversial as "Rosemary's Baby." Decades after its release, what are we to make of a movie about a woman's bodily agency that was made by a man –- Roman Polanski –- who was later convicted of statutory rape? It's just one of several tricky questions that's elicited by any thorough look back at the film; in addition to Polanski's life story, both of the movie's surviving cast members (see below) have been embroiled in their own complex and traumatic situations in the years since the film debuted in 1968.

It's a tricky legacy for a phenomenal movie that works on the strengths of all involved, including a powerful young Mia Farrow, who turns Polanski's already-sharp take on Ira Levin's great book into something unforgettable. Most of the other actors who made the film a classic are gone now, including John Cassavettes...

Mia Farrow doesn’t want to tell fellow actors whom they should or “shouldn’t” work with, even if it’s a matter of working with her former partner Woody Allen, who was accused by Farrow’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of molestation.

The allegations against writer/director Allen were made public in 1992. Allen went on to later marry Farrow’s other adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. His career has been marred by the allegations; however, Allen has continued to helm features that starred notable actors in the years since the controversy.

Farrow recently said during “CBS Sunday Morning” that she does not hold actors’ decisions to work with Allen against them.

“I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him,” Farrow said. “I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.’”

Allen confirmed in 2022 that he was not retiring anytime soon, and was helming his 50th film.

Industry biggies, including the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Kate Winslet, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Greta Gerwig, have shared regret over working with controversial filmmaker Woody Allen. While Allen, who was accused of s-xually molesting his daughter Dylan Farrow, wasn’t convicted of anything in the ’90s, Farrow once again spoke against the alleged incident in an open letter in 2014.

As the allegations resurfaced, several actors shared remorse over associating themselves with the director. But in a recent episode of Club Random podcast, Bill Maher seemingly defended Allen against the allegations and even took shots at actors, who’ve distanced themselves from the director.

Bill Maher Criticizes Actors for Distancing Themselves From Woody Allen

Woody Allen | Credit: Wikimedia Commons

With allegations against Woody Allen resurfacing in the wake of the #MeToo movement, most of Hollywood distanced itself from the filmmaker. This was followed by the HBO documentary series, Allen v. Farrow, which...

Bill Maher welcomed Katie Couric onto his “Club Random” podcast and passionately defended Woody Allen while the two discussed canceled artists in Hollywood. Maher said “I don’t think he committed that crime” in reference to Dylan Farrow’s molestation allegation against Allen, adding: “There was two police investigations that exonerated him.”

“There’s these actors who won’t work with him anymore and some of them made movies with him are saying, ‘I regret doing that.’ What a bunch of pussies!” Maher said. “First of all, it’s a very improbable crime that they’re accusing him of. Plainly, the other party had motivation and [was] vindictive.”

Maher referenced the HBO documentary “Allen v. Farrow” and said it was all from Mia Farrow’s point of view, alluding that it can’t fully be trusted as an unbiased account of what allegedly happened between Woody Allen and his adopted daughter,...

Woody Allen isn’t concerned about being cancelled.

In a new interview with Variety, the 87-year-old writer-director spoke about his views on “cancel culture,” and daughter Dylan Farrow’s sexual assault allegations against him.

Farrow’s allegations were the subject of the 2021 documentary series “Allen v. Farrow”, which detailed Dylan’s allegation that Allen abused her as a child.

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Discussing whether he feels “cancelled” in the wake of his daughter’s allegations gaining public attention, the director said, “I feel if you’re going to be canceled, this is the culture to be canceled by. I just find that all so silly. I don’t think about it. I don’t know what it means to be canceled.”

He continued, “I know that over the years everything has been the same for me.

One could make -- and no doubt some resourceful Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have made -- a video about Loki (Tom Hiddleston) hooking up with different characters in the MCU using footage from Hiddleston's non-Marvel projects. The actor had a tragic affair with Rachel Weisz (Melina Vostokoff in "Black Widow") in "The Deep Blue Sea," played one-half of a pair of vampiric lovers along with Tilda Swinton (the McU's Ancient One) in "Only Lovers Left Alive," and starred as Hank Williams in "I Saw the Light," with the Scarlet Witch herself, Elizabeth Olsen, playing the late country music legend's wife. Hiddleston even had a fling with Elizabeth Debicki (Ayesha in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films) in "The Night Manager," in addition to a non-zero amount of sexual tension with "Captain Marvel" actor Brie Larson in "Kong: Skull Island."

Tragically, Hiddleston did not romance Owen Wilson during the film they...

Woody Allen has announced plans to retire from filmmaking after his next and 50th movie, “Wasp 22,” which is set to begin production this fall in France.

“My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing,” Allen said in an interview Saturday with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia timed to the release of a book of short comic stories and essays. “Now I’m thinking more of a novel.”

No cast or plot details have been revealed for “Wasp 22,” which will shoot in Paris almost entirely in French, but Allen said it will be similar to his 2005 film “Match Point,” which starred Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers: “exciting, dramatic and also sinister.”

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Rosie O’Donnell didn’t think twice about turning down an offer to star in a Woody Allen film.

The “A League of Their Own” actress recently recalled during “The Howard Stern Show” that following a 1995 HBO comedy special where she slammed the child abuse charges against Allen, the director called her to star in his feature “Sweet and Lowdown.”

“I had done an HBO special where I said everything about him,” O’Donnell said, via Entertainment Weekly. “And then I got on my show. So it’s the first year of my show and I get a call and they said, ‘He wants you to be in [‘Sweet and Lowdown’]. I said, ‘Please send him my HBO special.’ And the woman said, ‘Oh he’s already seen it.’ And I said, ‘Send it anyway with two words: Fuck no.’ And I sent it to him.”

Sean Penn and Uma Thurman led the 1999 feature.

Mira Sorvino revealed that her career feels “tainted” since winning an Oscar and Golden Globe for Woody Allen’s 1995 film “Mighty Aphrodite.”

Sorvino explained during Marc Maron’s “Wtf” podcast that she “should have denounced” the director over the sexual abuse allegations that Allen molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow.

“I didn’t look deep enough to actually educate myself to really make an educated opinion at the time. It’s not an excuse,” Sorvino said, explaining that she grew up “idolizing” Allen as an artist.

“It’s so hard to talk about it now because I now have a very different opinion of Woody than I did now. I blame myself for not investigating further into what happened with Dylan,” Sorvino said. “There was the whole custody battle and it was in the press. It was pre-‘Mighty Aphrodite.’ But the way that the press had kind of skewed...

In a feature — and accompanying short film — for Vanity Fair‘s annual “Hollywood Issue,” a number of Jerry Lewis’ leading ladies, female co-stars and many other aspiring, talented women allege that the so-called King of Comedy sexually harassed and, in at least one case, sexually assaulted them.

The story and film are based in part on interviews conducted by Emmy-winning Allen v. Farrow filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick who, in 2017, began investigating Hollywood’s long history of abuse. They found that some of the most severe accusations involved Lewis.

Among those interviewed for the piece are Hope Holiday, who appeared in The Ladies Man with Lewis the year after she broke out in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment; Jill St. John, who starred opposite the comedian in Who’s Minding the Store?; Anna Maria Alberghetti, who worked with him on Cinderfella; Karen Sharpe, who played the star’s love interest in The Disorderly Orderly,...

Two actresses who appeared on screen with movie icon and comedian Jerry Lewis have accused him of sexual harassment and assault, including claims that he fondled one of the women and began masturbating in front of the other.

Karen Sharpe (now Karen Kramer), who starred with Lewis in “The Disorderly Order” (1964), and Hope Holiday, who starred with Lewis in “The Ladies Man” (1961) and is known for parts in “The Apartment,” each accused Lewis of misconduct as part of a documentary short film published in Vanity Fair. The interviews with both women were conducted by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, the directors of “Allen v. Farrow,” in conjunction with Vanity Fair.

Lewis died in 2017 at the age of 91.

Sharpe said in the documentary short that she was invited to Lewis’ dressing room to discuss a scene and the outfit she would wear in the film when she says, “Before I knew it,...

Two former co-stars of Jerry Lewis, actresses Karen Sharpe and Hope Holiday, have accused the late comic legend and actor of sexual assault and harassment in a new feature published by Vanity Fair. The interviews were conducted by documentarians Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, the filmmakers who tackled sexual abuse allegations against Woody Allen in the HBO documentary series “Allen v. Farrow,” and who also received an Oscar nomination for examining the prevalence of campus rape in the documentary film “The Hunting Ground.”

Lewis, who died in 2017, was known as the “King of Comedy,” and made his professional debut as part of the iconic duo Martin and Lewis alongside Dean Martin, kicking off an eight-decade career that included hits like “The Nutty Professor,” “The Bellboy,” “The Patsy,” and “The Ladies Man.”

As detailed in the Vanity Fair piece, Sharpe met Lewis on the set of 1964’s “The Disorderly Orderly.” In the film,...

Nominees for this year’s ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards have been announced, with scores for films like “Dune” and “The Power of the Dog,” TV series like “Loki” and “The White Lotus” and video games like “Call of Duty” among the contenders.

These competitive awards, voted on by members of ASCAP, will be given out during the week of May 2 as part of the 2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards, alongside the non-voted honors that reward the composers of the most-performed scores and themes of the year.

Up for film score of the year are Hans Zimmer, for “Dune”; Germaine Franco, for “Encanto”; Daniel Hart, for “The Green Knight”; Dan Romer, for “Luca”; and Radiohead member-turned-maestro Jonny Greenwood for “The Power of the Dog.”

Zimmer, Franco and Greenwood have already been nominated for the Academy Awards this month for their work on those films.

Nods for television score went to Michael Abels,...

The American Cinema Editors (Ace) has nominated “Belfast,” “Dune,” “King Richard,” “No Time to Die” and “The Power of the Dog” in the category of feature film drama at the 72nd annual Ace Eddie Awards.

In the best edited comedic feature category, “Cruella,” “Don’t Look Up,” “The French Dispatch,” “Licorice Pizza” and “Tick, Tick…Boom!” all received nominations.

Among the animated features nominated were “Encanto,” “Luca,” “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and “Sing 2.” The TV nominees include “Succession” and “The White Lotus.”

The Eddies are considered a precursor for the best picture and best editing categories at the Oscars. Five of the past 11 winners for best edited drama feature went on to win the film editing Oscar.

Since 1961, only 10 women have won in the best edited drama feature category. This year, there are two women who made the cut: Pamela Martin (“King Richard”) and...

Easing his way back into U.S. theaters after a two-year hiatus and an explosively accusatory four-part documentary, Allen v. Farrow, that aired on HBO in 2021, Woody Allen returns with Rifkin’s Festival, an airy, lazy, though rather likable overseas rom-com served with a dose of melancholia and several large portions of cinematic nostalgia.

Shot in picturesque San Sebastián and based around the city’s annual international film festival, Rifkin rehashes bits of earlier Allen efforts, including the artist character from Vicky Cristina Barcelona — does he think all Spanish men are strapping, sexed-up figurative painters? — while revisiting some of his favorite movies in a new light.

The result seems to be primarily aimed at the director’s own age group — a demographic that hasn’t exactly been leading the box office charge these days and that could render this release from MPI Media Group (who briefly put out A Rainy...

IndieWire turns 25 this year. To mark the occasion, we’re running a series of essays about the future of everything we cover.

Remember when documentaries were deeply honorable but commercially unviable? “Knock Down the House” shattered Sundance records in 2019 when Netflix bought it for $10 million; Apple and A24 broke that record the next year with the $12 million acquisition of “Boys State.” Apple paid a reported $25 million for “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry,” while studios like Concordia, Participant, Radical, and Xtr pump millions into the non-fiction genre.

Today, everyone loves documentaries. Streamers are hailed as giving the genre a new lease on life. However, the streaming business is not dedicated to speaking truth to power, as documentaries often do; streamers amass subscribers and create shareholder value.

So, what does that mean for the future of documentaries? If the risk-averse, franchise-dominated movie business is any example, we should expect more documentaries about famous people,...

Once again, we find ourselves already surprisingly further into a calendar year than feels appropriate. Even for those who don’t make it their sole mission to stay up-to-date with every new development in the TV world, the majority of the past year has brought with it a daunting number of series.

Some of those have been brand new shows, either the result of conscious release date delays or interrupted production schedules. Others have been series imports that enjoyed full runs in different parts of the world before getting a U.S. debut in 2021. And as the year continues to develop and the awards calendar switches over into its multi-holiday phase, we’ve also seen the return of established favorites.

We try our best to help sift through the steady stream of newcomers every month, but there still always seems to be more than any casual viewer can keep track.

“Secrets of the Whales,” the Disney+ docuseries that offers a deep dive on whale cultures, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series on Sunday afternoon.

The documentary series, which was filmed in two dozen locations over three years, premiered on Disney+ in April 2021. Disney’s description for the show reads:

“‘Secrets of the Whales’ plunges viewers deep within the epicenter of whale culture to experience the extraordinary communication skills and intricate social structures of five different whale species: Orcas, humpbacks, belugas, narwhals, and sperm whales. Throughout this epic journey, we learn that whales are far more complex and more like us than ever imagined.

The project beat out PBS’ “American Masters,” National Geographic’s “City So Real,” Netflix’s “Pretend It’s a City,” and HBO’s “Allen v. Farrow” for the Emmy — the latter of which was heavily favored to win.

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry,...

The 73rd Primetime Emmys take place on September 19 and air live coast-to-coast on CBS. But the majority of trophies for TV’s highest honor will be handed out at the three Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies that take place in the weekend prior. On Saturday, September 11, and Sunday, September 12, the television academy handed out its Creative Arts Emmy Awards, honoring the best behind-the-scenes artists as well as achievements in animation, documentaries, reality TV, variety, and short form programming.

Saturday’s single ceremony is devoted to crafts while Sunday has back-to-back events with the afternoon focused on reality and documentaries and the evening on acting, music and variety.

Scroll down for the complete 2021 Creative Arts Emmy winners list. Winners are noted with an X and in gold.

Guest Acting

Best Comedy Guest Actress

Yvette Nicole Brown, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”

Issa Rae, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”

Jane Adams, “Hacks”

Maya Rudolph,...

Few elements of television can entice the viewer quite like a well-designed main title sequence, as proved by this year’s Emmy nominees for Best Main Title Design. Such sequences may be less and less present in the modern TV landscape, but they help set a mood for the series to come, evoking emotions that might not be as potent with a simple title card.

This year’s nominees are: “Between the World and Me” (HBO), “The Good Lord Bird” (Showtime), “Lovecraft Country” (HBO), “The Queen’s Gambit” (Netflix), “Raised by Wolves” (HBO Max) and “WandaVision” (Disney+). So which opener will win the Emmy for Best Main Title Design? Let’s look at each of them individually, and be sure to make your Emmy predictions.

SEEBest Main Title Theme Music: Will Emmy go to ‘WandaVision,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Bridgerton,’ ‘The Flight Attendant’ or ‘Allen v. Farrow’?

“Between the World and Me” — Creative...

HBO’s “Welcome to Chechnya” and Netflix’s “Dick Johnson is Dead” were strong contenders for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars this past year, but neither made the cut with the motion picture academy. However, the Oscars’ loss is the Emmys’ gain as both nonfiction films are nominated for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, along with another film that just missed out at the Oscars, “76 Days.” But which film will win?

Unlike in past years, there are no Oscar nominees in this year’s Emmy lineup; documentaries used to be anomalous in that they were often eligible at both events. But the Emmys instituted a new rule stating that “any programs that have been nominated for an Oscar are no longer eligible to enter the Primetime Emmy Awards competition.” So no more cases like “Free Solo” winning the Oscar and then sweeping the Emmys a few months later.

The 2021 Emmy nominees for Best Main Title Theme Music are more varied than ever before. While TV theme songs continue to be scarce, each of this year’s nominees contributed to the tones and moods of their respective series, which include “Allen v. Farrow” (HBO), “Bridgerton” (Netflix), “The Flight Attendant” (HBO Max), “Ted Lasso” (Apple TV+) and “WandaVision” (Disney+).

These opening tunes include soaring orchestral pieces, a pulse-pounding homage to classic thrillers, a soft rock track and a collection of tributes to sitcoms through the years. Whichever composer wins will be taking home their first Primetime Emmy. So which opener will Emmy voters deem the best of the 2020-21 TV season? Let’s dive into all five theme songs and then be sure to make your own predictions.

“Allen v. Farrow” — Theme by Michael Abels

Also nominated this year for composing the score to the docu-series, Abels gave the “Allen v. Farrow...

Kathy Comerford was working on the 70th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001 when United Flight 175 flew into the building at 9:03 a.m. She was literally blown out of her shoes. “I was looking for my shoes to get up, so I could get back down the stairs,” Comerford recalled. “I kept thinking this building is not going to take me. There’s no way I’m going [to die]. I’m going home to my kids. But here we are now. Our family now, our motto is, be thankful. Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s not worth it. Embrace the fact there you are here for a reason. I was saved for a reason and many others didn’t have the same luck and fortune.”

Comerford is one of over 50 survivors and first responders featured in the powerful and emotional National Geographic documentary series,...

Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. The eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and is subject to change.

To see all the latest predictions, of all the categories, in one place, visit The Emmys Collective

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Outstanding Directing For A Documentary/Nonfiction Program

Updated: Aug 19, 2021

Awards Prediction Commentary: Former winners in the mix like Dan Lindsay and Tj...

Conan O’Brien took over NBC’s “Late Night” in 1993 — 28 years ago. But after almost three decades in late night he still hasn’t won the top Emmy for variety programs. This past June he ended his latest venture, TBS’s “Conan,” after 11 years on the air, and the television academy subsequently welcomed him back to the race for Best Variety Talk Series. Can he dethrone the five-time reigning champ “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”?

Though O’Brien’s “Late Night” started in 1993, he wasn’t nominated for the top award until 2003, at which point the Jon Stewart extended universe started winning and has never stopped. Since then, no other talk shows have won. His “Daily Show” won Best Variety Series 10 years in a row (2003-2012). Then after the Emmys split that award into talk and sketch categories, “Daily Show” won again in 2015 for Stewart’s farewell season. In-between, “Daily...

Last month, after the release of his latest documentary, “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” Morgan Neville disclosed that he used artificial intelligence to simulate the voice of Bourdain. Outrage ensued and writers used it as an opportunity to pen headlines that said the project served as a reminder that documentaries are journalism.

But while it’s true that documentaries have never been a part of the fourth estate — an institution whose ability to be completely objective is debatable — most documentaries set out to expose a truth via journalistic tactics including research, making sense of the facts and interviewing subjects. This year many such projects — including “City So Real,” “Allen v. Farrow,” “Framing Britney Spears,” “The Social Dilemma” and “Welcome to Chechnya” — received Emmy nominations.

Veteran docu filmmaker Steve James says while he is a “nonfiction storyteller,” that does not relieve him of journalistic principles when making a documentary. James...

Variety is pleased to announce the lineup for its first-ever Virtual TV Fest: The Nominees, airing on Aug. 18.

This year, Variety extended its TV Fest franchise to include panels with Emmy-nominated actors, directors, producers and writers in the comedy, drama, documentary series and nonfiction special and limited series categories. The panels will be moderated by Michael Schneider, Variety‘s deputy TV editor and senior TV awards editor, and Jazz Tangcay, senior awards editor.

The Comedy Series panel includes:

Hannah Einbinder

Debbie Liebling

Courtney Lilly

Rosie Perez

Paul Reiser

Hannah Waddingham

William Zabka

The Drama Series panel includes:

Steven Canals

Ann Dowd

Aunjanue Ellis

Eric Kripke

Tobias Menzies

Chris Sullivan

The Documentary Series and Nonfiction Special panel includes:

Kirby Dick

Steve James

Frank Marshall

T.J. Martin

Amanda McBaine

Jeff Orlowski

Samantha Stark

The Limited Series panel includes:

Paapa Essiedu

Barry Jenkins

Anya Taylor-Joy

Elizabeth Olsen

Kate Winslet

To register for the event,...

This year’s batch of Emmy nominated filmmakers for both documentary and nonfiction encompass a wide spectrum that include veterans who have greatly influenced the genre and younger creatives getting their first dose of wide exposure. In getting to talk with them, it was incredible to hear them not only talk about the works that influenced their decision to go into nonfiction storytelling, but also the nonfiction works that have stood out to them in more recent years. Gold Derby recently had these discussions with Kirby Dick (“Allen v. Farrow”), Amanda McBaine (“Boys State”), Steve James (“City So Real”), Tom Campbell (“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked”) and Jeff Orlowski (“The Social Dilemma”) during our recent “Meet the Experts” panel.

You can watch the documentary and nonfiction group panel above with these five creative helmers. Click on each person’s name above to be taken to their individual interview.

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It took a lot of convincing for Mia Farrow to become a part of Kirby Dick’s latest documentary, “Allen v. Farrow.” “This whole case had been covered—actually mis-covered for decades and they had really felt the impact of that, of not being believed, of being blamed actually,” Dick tells Gold Derby in our Meet the Experts: Documentary and Nonfiction panel (watch the exclusive video interview above). Even though she was very apprehensive about being a part of the documentary, it was ultimately her daughter, Dylan Farrow, that brought Mia around to participating. “I think it’s because of Dylan’s courage and her willingness to step forward as she’s done several times over the last six, seven years.”

“Allen v. Farrow,” which premiered on HBO back in February, re-examines Dylan’s accusations of being sexually molested by her adoptive father, Woody Allen, back in 1992. In addition to...

Streaming has obviously changed the game in many ways, one of which is the prevalence of the “skip credits” option. Nearly every streaming services gives viewers the choice to skip opening credits, and then at the end of the episode, it automatically loads the next one instead of letting the end credits roll or promotes a new program if it’s the end of a series or film. For composers, whose work is typically showcased over the credits, it’s not exactly ideal.

“It’s not my favorite development in recent years,” Steven Price (“David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet”) says during Gold Derby’s Meet the Btl Experts: Composers panel with fellow Emmy nominees Michael Abels (“Allen v. Farrow”), Christopher Lennertz (“The Boys”) and Kris Bowers (“Bridgerton”) (watch above). “There’s something to be said for the film being an entire experience and the idea that you would...

“Allen v. Farrow” composer Michael Abels just earned his first two Emmy nominations for his theme and score to the HBO docuseries — all the more notable because he had never worked on a non-fiction project until now.

“I asked [directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering] if there was a difference in scoring documentary versus film because I hadn’t done it before. I didn’t want to do in thinking I knew the answer,” Abels tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Btl Experts: Composers panel (watch above). “They were really supportive of me doing what it is that I do. It felt like I had the freedom to really help tell the story. At the same time, it is a documentary and you need to be conscious of allowing people to experience it as people telling their factual accounts of what happened.”

The four-part series covers the 1992 sexual assault allegations...

Watch Gold Derby’s roundtable discussion with 2021 nominees Tom Campbell (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Kirby Dick (“Allen v. Farrow”), Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss (“Boys State”), Steve James (“City So Real”), Jeff Orlowski (“The Social Dilemma”) as they discuss the greatest challenges they faced while making their documentaries that have made it to the final round of voting. Discussion moderated by Charles Bright as part of our special “Meet the Experts” series.

Last Year’s Winner: “The Last Dance”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: Netflix saw its two-year hot streak interrupted when ESPN’s “The Last Dance” docuseries took home the Emmy in 2020 — however, Jason Hehir’s documentary series was released by Netflix internationally, as well as in the U.S. prior to the Emmys, so the streamer can take some credit for its viewership, and thus, its victory. Call it a “two-and-a-half year hot streak.”

Fun Fact: Since receiving its first two nominations in 2016, Netflix has been nominated every year since, including two nominations in every Emmy cycle save for 2020, and winning three of the last five competitions. The streamer’s heavy investment in docuseries, as well as the service’s general ubiquity, has certainly helped it make an immediate impact on the documentary world at large.

Notable Ineligible Series: “The Crime of the Century” (HBO’s two-part documentary is eligible...

Six top documentarians and producers will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2021 Emmy nominees. Each person from the documentaries and nonfiction program will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Tuesday, August 3, at 5:00 p.m. Pt; 8:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our contributing editor Charles Bright and a group chat with Charles and all of the group together.

RSVP today to this specific event by clicking here to book your reservation. Or click here to RSVP for our entire ongoing panel series. We’ll send you a reminder a few minutes before the start of the show.

This “Meet the Experts” panel welcomes the following 2021 Emmy nominees:

“Allen v. Farrow”: Kirby Dick

Synopsis: A look behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of the accusation...

Variety and Rolling Stone are pleased to announce programming for the inaugural Truth Seekers virtual summit on August 26th, presented by Showtime Documentary Films. Keynote speakers will include Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War), with panels from documentarians behind Allen v. Farrow, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, and more.

Stanley Nelson will receive the Truth Seeker Award. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Peabody Award recipient,...

Robert Lopez is not only an Egot winner, but he’s also the youngest to reach it (at 39 years and 8 days old) and is the first to achieve a double Egot, having won each accolade twice. But there are some who feel his Egot ought to be asterisked because his two Emmys are Daytime Emmys, but Lopez can now shut those haters up in one fell swoop with double Primetime Emmy wins this year.

Shared with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lopez nabbed two nominations for “WandaVision”: music and lyrics for “Agatha All Along” and main title theme music. These are his fourth and fifth Primetime Emmy bids; he previously lost the songwriting category for “Scrubs” in 2007, and “The Comedians” and the Oscars, both in 2015.

Lopez was never the favorite in those years — he lost to “Saturday Night Live’s” “Dick in a Box” and “Inside Amy Schumer’s” “Girl...

“Ted Lasso” topped the Television Critics Association’s list of nominees for its 37th Annual TCA Awards, with five nominations for the Apple TV+ comedy. When counting all platforms that received nods from the organization on Thursday, Netflix led the way with 15 total.

Just behind the Jason Sudeikis series in nominations were HBO Max’s “Hacks,” HBO’s “I May Destroy You” and “Mare of Easttown” and Disney+’s “WandaVision,” which grabbed four nominations apiece.

The TCA Awards’ top prize, Program of the Year, will come down to “Bridgerton,” “Hacks,” “I May Destroy You,” “Mare of Easttown,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Ted Lasso,” “The Underground Railroad” and “WandaVision.”

The awards ceremony’s usual in-person presentation has been scrapped for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, with winners expected to be announced by the TCA at a later date.

Per the Television Critics Association, “The 2021 TCA Awards showcase...

You better “believe”! “Ted Lasso” continues to pull in numerous awards nominations.

Just days after the Television Academy announced the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Award nominees, where the Apple TV Plus comedy picked up 20 nods and therefore became the most-nominated freshman comedy in that organization’s history, it scooped up five TCA Awards nominations, the most for any series celebrated by the Television Critics Assn. (TCA) this year.

This tally includes the series’ outstanding achievement in comedy nom, as well as individual achievement in comedy nods for Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham. The show also scored in the coveted new program and program of the year categories.

Not too far behind, though, with four nominations apiece are HBO Max’s “Hacks,” HBO’s “I May Destroy You” and “Mare of Easttown,” and Disney Plus’ “WandaVision.”

Like “Ted Lasso,” “Hacks” also scored in the outstanding achievement in comedy nom, as well...

Mere days after the TV Academy announced the nominations for the 2021 Emmy Awards, the Television Critics Association — made up of more than 200 professional TV critics and journalists — shared its own batch of nominees for the 2021 TCA Awards.

This year, the TCA embraced new shows and limited series with Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” leading the way with five nominations, including nods for Outstanding New Program, Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, and Program of the Year, along with recognition for both Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham for Individual Achievement in Comedy.

HBO Max’s breakout comedy hit “Hacks” was hot on Lasso’s heels with four nominations, also garnering recognition in New Program, Comedy, and Program of the Year, as well as a mention for star Jean Smart. Also nabbing four nominations were three of the season’s standout limited series: HBO’s “I May Destroy You” and “Mare of Easttown” along with Disney+’s “WandaVision.

You better believe: “Ted Lasso” led Thursday’s 37th Television Critics Association Awards nominations with five bids, including Program of the Year, in the awards’ largest slate of nominees yet.

All 13 categories have expanded from six nominees to eight (variety series has nine nominees) this year, five years after they were expanded from five slots to six. For the top prize, “Ted Lasso” will duke it out with “Bridgerton,” “Hacks,” “I May Destroy You,” “Mare of Easttown,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Underground Railroad” and “WandaVision.”

Fresh off 20 Emmy nominations, “Ted Lasso” also earned TCA nominations for comedy series, new program and two in the Individual Achievement in Comedy category for Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham.

Four shows scored four nominations apiece: “Hacks,” “I May Destroy You,” “Mare of Easttown” and “WandaVision.” These four are all up in Outstanding New Program against, as aforementioned, “Ted Lasso,” “Bridgerton,” “The Flight Attendant” and “P-Valley.

The 2021 TCA Award nominees have been revealed and AppleTV+ freshman series Ted Lasso is leading the charge with five nominations including Individual Achievement In Comedy for stars Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham, as well as nominations for Outstanding New Program, Outstanding Achievement In Comedy, and Program Of The Year.

Following closely behind with four nominations each are HBO’s I May Destroy You and Mare of Easttown, as well as HBO Max’s Hacks. Other highlights include nominations for Framing Britney Spears and Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A CBS Primetime Special under the Outstanding Achievement In News And Information category.

There will be no formal in-person presentation for the second year in a row due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. A full list of winners will be announced later this summer.

“This was an incredible year for fresh, inclusive content and new creators, and our nominations are a reflection of that,...

The controversial HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow, which supports Dylan Farrow’s accusation of being sexually abused by her adoptive favor, Woody Allen, earned the most Emmy nominations of any nonfiction program.

The four-part series directed and executive-produced by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Herdy claimed seven nominations in all, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.

“It’s an incredible honor, no question about it,” Dick told Deadline. “This is something that was just completely a collective effort.”

“It’s so incredible to get this recognition from your peers, not so much for us but for our team,” Ziering commented. “It’s so hard to do this work. I know we’re not, like, curing cancer, but it’s hard to do this rigorous investigative work, craft a story so people can follow it, make sure all your fact-checking is correct.

The TV Academy music branch is clearly not impressed by big names.

None of the superstars who entered the 2020-21 Emmy competition in the music categories — including H.E.R., Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Sara Bareilles, Dolly Parton and Cher — were rewarded Wednesday when the 73rd annual Emmy Award nominations were announced.

Rather, the majority of nominees in the seven music categories were largely familiar composers, songwriters, music directors and music supervisors within the scoring community.

The biggest musical names nominated were Marcus Mumford for the theme for “Ted Lasso,” Grammy president-ceo Harvey Mason Jr. for “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” jazzman Branford Marsalis for a History Channel documentary, two-time Oscar winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for their hummable songs for “WandaVision,” and Tony winner Marc Shaiman for a song on a YouTube special.

Missing from Tuesday’s lists were songs for “Safety,” by H.E.R.; “Black Is King” by Beyoncé; both “Girls5eva...

In February HBO released “Allen v. Farrow,” a four-part docuseries that examined the events that led up to Dylan Farrow’s sexual abuse allegations against her father, Woody Allen. That same month Skyhorse Publishing threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit against the premium cabler and the docuseries’ directors, Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, over the series’ use of unauthorized audio excerpts from Allen’s 2020 memoir, “Apropos of Nothing.”

In the four months since Skyhorse publicly contemplated a lawsuit, one has yet to appear, ostensibly due to a legal doctrine called Fair Use. While it’s not a fixed exception with clearly defined borders, the Fair Use doctrine has successfully transformed the documentary landscape in the past two decades.

“Film is a visual medium and if key material, say a film clip, is exorbitantly priced and takes up an outsized fraction of your budget and [therefore can’t be used], the film suffers,” says director Matt Tyrnauer.

“Allen v. Farrow” directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering never set out to make a movie about the allegations of sexual assault made by Dylan Farrow against her father Woody Allen. And nobody – even Dylan – expected her mother Mia Farrow to ever cooperate.

“I always like to say, our films find us, we don’t find them,” Ziering tells Variety’s Award Circuit podcast. She and Dick were interviewing people who had spoken up following the #MeToo movement, which is how they met Dylan Farrow: “Dylan was just one interview that we were doing that day; we had five a day. And in the course of her interview, we were listening to her and going, ‘Wait…I thought I knew her story. That’s not exactly what I remember – or how it was portrayed in the media or public.”

Following that interview, their producer Amy Herdy said she wanted to investigate further.

Sharon Stone, Patricia Arquette, Sanaa Lathan, Warrington Hudlin, Delroy Lindo, Elijah Wood, Bryan Cranston, Andre Holland, Margaret Cho and Hari Nef will serve as jury members for the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

Tribeca, running from June 9 to June 20, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

The jurors will select winning projects in the film, immersive, games and all-new podcasts competition sections. The fest has expanded to 14 competition categories.

“Storytellers rallying together, sharing their admiration and inspiring growth in one another;s work is one of the most inspiring parts of Tribeca,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises and the Tribeca Film Festival. “Our jury and incredible community of talented creators are coming back to gather in-person to surround their fellow artists with support.”

As previously announced, the festival will award the inaugural Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award to Stacey Abrams for her service and commitment to fighting against injustices.

Nature documentaries, true crime, even controversial stories of child-sexual abuse — they all need music, and this television season offered composers of varied backgrounds supplying outstanding scores.

“Really, you’re writing a concerto for dialogue,” says Michael Abels (“Get Out”), whose firstever doc assignment was the HBO series “Allen v. Farrow,” which outlined the case against Woody Allen, whose adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has accused the director of abusing her at age 7.

Most of the music in “Allen v. Farrow” supports the “reporting” segments. “Music helps us hear that part of the story, giving it momentum and direction,” says Abels, who enlisted a 40-member string ensemble to record and perform from Budapest.

The occasional clarinet solo, and ’30s- and ’40s-style big-band numbers, reminded viewers of Allen’s own musical tastes and Manhattan jazz-club performances.

The most sensitive material, however, went unscored. “When you see a little girl talking about what happened,...

When Allen v. Farrow released earlier this year on HBO, the four-part docuseries — which was filmed in secret over three years — revealed new evidence, including several bombshells, about the allegations of incest that have been famously leveled against filmmaker Woody Allen since the 1990s. By its conclusion, the intimate yet sprawling documentary became a powerful platform for Dylan Farrow, Allen’s adoptive daughter, to share her story.

For filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, and lead investigative producer Amy Herdy — who virtually gathered for a recent Q&a for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media — booking their starring subject to not only go on ...

When Allen v. Farrow released earlier this year on HBO, the four-part docuseries — which was filmed in secret over three years — revealed new evidence, including several bombshells, about the allegations of incest that have been famously leveled against filmmaker Woody Allen since the 1990s. By its conclusion, the intimate yet sprawling documentary became a powerful platform for Dylan Farrow, Allen’s adoptive daughter, to share her story.

For filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, and lead investigative producer Amy Herdy — who virtually gathered for a recent Q&a for THR Presents, powered by Vision Media — booking their starring subject to not only go on ...