And we have even more good news about Food, Inc.: editor Kim Roberts has received a nomination for Best Edited Documentary in the American Cinema Editors’ 60th Annual ACE Eddie Awards. The winners will be announced Feb. 14 in a ceremony in Los Angeles.
These three films have also made it to several critics’ top picks for 2009, including The Beaches of Agnes and The English Surgeon in Manohla Dargis‘ New York Times favorites of 2009. Betsy Sharkey writes in the Los Angeles Times that The Beaches of Agnes “proved a masterwork from French New Wave auteur, Agnès Varda, who, at 79, turned the camera on herself and found new ways to deconstruct her subject as well as film itself,” and calls humanitarian neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, subject of The English Surgeon, “a central character every bit as engaging as any fiction could conjure up.” The Documentary Blog puts The English Surgeon at No. 4 of their 50 best docs of the decade. Scott Mendelson of the Huffington Post calls Food, Inc. a “humorous and often terrifying look into the industrialized food industry,” and says it is the year’s best documentary. And Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times puts Food, Inc. on his list, too.
That’s a lot of good news in one day. Note to POV filmmakers: Keep those tuxes and evening gowns handy!
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