The film from veteran director Fred Wiseman paints a portrait of a Queens neighborhood
Awards season kicked into high gear this week -- first with the Gotham Independent Film Awards and then the National Board of Review. Now the New York Film Critics Circle has weighed in -- and each one of those institutions declared a different film the year's best documentary.
NYFCC voted In Jackson Heights the top nonfiction film of 2015, the latest documentary from Fred Wiseman who released his first film in 1967. In Jackson Heights documents a working class section of Queens described as "one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world."
Earlier in the week the Gotham Independent Film Awards named Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence Best Documentary. The next day the National Board of Review gave its top documentary honor to Asif Kapadia's Amy.
Wiseman has directed more than 40 films in his extraordinary career, including Ballet [1995], La Comédie Française ou L'Amour Joué [1996] and At Berkeley [2013]. In Jackson Heights will screen Friday (Dec. 4) on the University of Notre Dame campus and in Santa Fe, New Mexico. at the Center for Contemporary Art. It screens Monday, Dec. 7 in Champaign, Ill. at the Art Theater Co-op. A complete list of upcoming screening dates/locations can be found here.
The full list of New York Film Critics Circle honorees:
2015 AwardsBest Picture Carol Best Director Todd Haynes CAROL Best Screenplay Carol Best Actress Saoirse Ronan BROOKLYN Best Actor Michael Keaton SPOTLIGHT Best Supporting Actress Kristen Stewart CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA Best Supporting Actor Mark Rylance BRIDGE OF SPIES Best Cinematographer Edward Lachman CAROL Best Animated Film Inside Out Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary) In Jackson Heights Best Foreign Language Film Timbuktu Best First Film László Nemes SON OF SAUL Special Award William Becker and Janus Films Special Award Ennio Morricone |
AuthorMatthew Carey is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. His work has appeared on Deadline.com, CNN, CNN.com, TheWrap.com, NBCNews.com and in Documentary magazine. |