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The nominations for the 68th Golden Globe award were announced this morning, I quickly scroll through the list - The Kings Voice, The King's Speech, the social network, The Kings Speech - to watch the documentary nominations. But then I remembered: the Golden Globes does not do documentaries.
The Golden Globes was a short documentary category, between 1972 and 1977. (The last non-fiction filmmaker to take home the greedy orb was Lew Ayres for Altars of the World.) Maybe the suits at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had to trim down the broadcast, perhaps, if Frederick Wiseman's heyday No one cared much about documentary films of the past.
But - I think I'm biased - is not that different now? We have Michael Moore, the March of the Penguins and Waiting for Superman - documentary blockbusters, with broad, successful theatrical releases. And non-fiction films that did not receive theatrical releases tend to travel the festival circuit to HBO, Showtime, or PBS. Given that both the Golden Globe film and television awards, it seems the perfect place to hand out several awards for nonfiction films. It would be a great outlet to honor and public awareness documentary films that end with the airing on television as saying: "12 & Delaware" or "My Perestroika."
The Golden Globes was a short documentary category, between 1972 and 1977. (The last non-fiction filmmaker to take home the greedy orb was Lew Ayres for Altars of the World.) Maybe the suits at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had to trim down the broadcast, perhaps, if Frederick Wiseman's heyday No one cared much about documentary films of the past.
But - I think I'm biased - is not that different now? We have Michael Moore, the March of the Penguins and Waiting for Superman - documentary blockbusters, with broad, successful theatrical releases. And non-fiction films that did not receive theatrical releases tend to travel the festival circuit to HBO, Showtime, or PBS. Given that both the Golden Globe film and television awards, it seems the perfect place to hand out several awards for nonfiction films. It would be a great outlet to honor and public awareness documentary films that end with the airing on television as saying: "12 & Delaware" or "My Perestroika."
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