The documentary community is still absorbing the win by Mr. Nobody Against Putin at the Academy Awards on Sunday. The film didn’t exactly “come out of nowhere” to claim the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, but Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor sure looked like the favorite going into the ceremony.
On the new edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey parse the results and debate what they tell us about Academy voters. Ridley, an Oscar winner himself and Academy member, proposes what he calls a conspiracy theory to explain why The Perfect Neighbor, directed by Geeta Gandbhir, came up short.
On the latest episode of the pod, we also travel to True/False in Columbia, MO to speak with makers of two documentaries that just premiered at the prestigious festival: Phenomena and Pinball.
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Phenomena, directed by Melbourne-based Josef Gatti, creates one
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