“Boys State,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” The Social Dilemma,” and “76 Days” all won Emmys last weekend during the Creative Arts ceremonies, but they share another distinction: They are the last docume…
“Boys State,” “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” The Social Dilemma,” and “76 Days” all won Emmys last weekend during the Creative Arts ceremonies, but they share another distinction: They are the last documentaries able to win a statuette from the Television Academy for the same nonfiction film that successfully qualified for Academy Award consideration.
By putting a halt to the double-dipping, the TV Academy reminded documentary filmmakers and the companies backing them of their television roots. After all, there is no denying that docs are a product of television or digital platforms and, for the most part, not film studios. Without funding from small-screen distributors such as HBO, PBS, A&E and streaming services including Netflix, Amazon, and Apple, the Oscar feature documentary category wouldn’t exist.
“For those of us in the business, all of us want an Oscar,” says “Citizen Ashe” and “MLK/FBI” director Pollard, an Academy Award nominee and winner of three Emmys, including two for “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.” “We’d all love to get an Emmy, but we all want that Oscar – that’s the brass ring. The Emmy is icing on the cake.”
Going forward, Nevins points out that the new rule is good news for The News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which will accept AMPAS qualified docus. That said, four-walling will continue to exist because documentaries have always had a hard time securing theatrical space and without four-walling there would arguably only be a handful of docus that meet AMPAS’s eligibility requirements.
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