The Mars Rover documentary “Good Night Oppy”The Critics Choice Documentary Awards in New York City named it the best nonfiction film of the year 2022. It was presented at the Edison Ballroom in New York City.
Ryan White was named the year’s best documentary director for “Good Night Oppy”A ceremony that spreads love with more than a dozen films and series receiving awards, and only “Good Night Oppy” “The Beatles: Get Back”You may have won more than one award.
“Get Back”Two wins, while “Good Night Oppy”They also won five other awards, including Best Science/Nature Documentary (Best Narration), Best Score and Best Score.
The Critics Choice Documentary Awards revealed the second-and third-place finishers in top categories for the first-ever time. “Fire of Love”Second place “Navalny”Third place.
David Siev won the Best First Feature Category “Bad Axe.”These are the winners of Genre “Fire of Love”For archival documentation, “Descendant”For historical docs, “Navalny”For political doc “Sidney”Biographical doc “Good Night Oppy”For science/nature docs and a tie “Citizen Ashe” “Welcome to Wrexham” for sports doc. Peter Jackson’s three-part Disney+ series “The Beatles: Get Back”The award for Best Music Documentary was won over a group theatrical docs. This was made possible by the CCDA rule which does not differentiate between TV and film docs in many categories.
The craft awards “Our Great National Parks”Nominated for Cinematography and “Moonage Daydream”Editing
The documentary series category winners were “The Beatles: Get Back” “30 for 30.”
Ever since the Critics Choice Association spun off its nonfiction awards into a separate show in 2016, the CCDA winner went on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature twice, for 2019’s “O.J.: Made in America” last year’s “Summer of Soul.” The other four times, the CCDA winner – “Jane,” “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” “Apollo 11” and “Dick Johnson Is Dead” – notably failed to receive an Oscar nomination.
Critics Choice voters tend more to watch mainstream movies that Oscar voters and documentary professionals in the Cinema Eye Honors or International Documentary Association. (Full disclosure: As a voting member.
On Sunday, Dawn Porter received the Critics Choice Impact Award and Barbara Kopple was awarded the Pennebaker Award as honorary recipients.
The winners
The Best Documentary Feature: “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)
Silver medal winner: “Fire of Love”(National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon).
Bronze medal winner: “Navalny” (HBO Max/CNN Films)
Best Director: Ryan White – “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)
Best Documentary Feature: David Siev – “Bad Axe” (IFC Films)
Best Cinematography: The Cinematography Team – “Our Great National Parks” (Netflix)
Best Editing: Brett Morgen – “Moonage Daydream” (HBO/Neon)
The Best Score: Blake Neely – “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)
Best Narration: “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)
Ryan White was written by Helen Kearns and performed by Angela Bassett
Best Archival Documentary: “Fire of Love”(National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon).
Best Historical Documentary: “Descendant” (Netflix)
Best Biographical Documentary: “Sidney” (Apple TV+)
The Best Music Documentary: “The Beatles: Get Back” (Disney+)
The Best Political Documentary: “Navalny” (HBO Max/CNN Films)
Best Science/Nature Documentary: “Good Night Oppy” (Amazon Studios)
Best Sports Documentary: (TIE) “Citizen Ashe”(Magnolia/HBO). “Welcome to Wrexham” (FX/Hulu)
Best Documentary Shorts: “Nuisance Bear”(The New Yorker).
Best Documentary Series of Limited Duration: “The Beatles: Get Back” (Disney+)
The Best Documentary Series on the Current: “30 for 30” (ESPN)
The Pennebaker Award: Barbara Kopple
Critics Choice Impact AwardDawn Porter