The Academy’s Doc Branch Knows Its Oscar Nomination Process Needs to Change. It Can’t Agree on How

Fifteen members of the AMPAS documentary branch spoke to IndieWire about what they feel is and is not working during Oscar ...

Watching the 2026 Winter Olympics? Here is why athletes treat danger differently

Imagine soaring more than 400 feet in the air before landing on skis, launching off a nearly 50-foot platform strapped to a snowboard, or sledding face first over 80 miles an hour down a sheet of ...

50 Years Later, We Are Still Feeling The Effects Of The Legendary Documentary Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens, which hit theaters 50 years ago this week, is widely regarded as one of the best documentaries ever made. Indeed, after rewatching it for the first time in years, as I continue my ...

Oscar-Winning Documentarian Frederick Wiseman Dies At 96

The celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries was known for in-depth, unadorned movies that ...
Yahoo

Student scientists share findings at 25th High School Science & Engineering Fair

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WESTFIELD — Three hundred students from Westfield High School and Westfield Technical Academy presented their science and ...
Variety

Amazon Blocks Mainstream Press From Watching ‘Melania’ Documentary at Kennedy Center

On Thursday afternoon, in the lobby of the Trump Kennedy Center, reporters whispered in hushed voices to each other to see which journalists, if any, would be allowed entry to a screening of Melania ...
Wyoming News

Western hosts 2026 Southwest Regional Science Fair

ROCK SPRINGS — Western Wyoming Community College (Western) hosted science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students, in grades 6-12, who participated in the Southwest Regional Science Fair ...
Cartoon Brew

Inside ‘Acid City,’ A Cyberpunk Speculative Documentary Anchored In Real Voices And Real Science

Premiering on January 30 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the cyberpunk CG short Acid City arrives as a compact yet unusually dense feat of worldbuilding: a 12-minute animated documentary ...
Vanity Fair

Valentino Hated the Documentary I Made About Him, Until He Saw What I Saw

Valentino Garavani and I were barely speaking as we stood on the red carpet for the world premiere of my film Valentino: The Last Emperor at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Valentino and his formidable ...
Wall Street Journal

There’s a Hit Movie Set Deep Inside an AI Lab—and It Will Give You Goosebumps

That was the question Demis Hassabis asked his favorite documentary filmmaker nearly a decade ago, long before artificial intelligence was the growth engine of the global economy, when the leader of ...
The Gaston Gazette

Gaston County students put science to the test in annual competition

Gaston County middle school students recently gathered at Belmont’s City Works building to explain their science fair projects to judges from county high schools and beyond. According to one judge ...