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UPDATED with latest: It’s a new year — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead as we get deeper into Oscar season and look ahead to the guild awards, Grammys, Tonys and more. Check back often for updates. RELATED: Deadline’s…

Larissa: The Other Side Of Anitta, a feature documentary for Netflix, will delve into the life of the multi-talented Brazilian star. The João Wainer and Pedro Cantelmo-directed doc about Rio-born singer, songwriter, dancer and actress Anitta launches this year on Netflix. "Everyone has seen…

Spike Lee’s next joint for Netflix is called Katrina: Come Hell and High Water — one of three documentaries planned for the streamer in 2025. Lee’s doc with Message Pictures will revisit the hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and more than $100 billion in damages in 2005. The official…

Netflix and British docs producer Rogan Productions are to attempt to “connect the long and disturbing chain of events” that led to the disastrous Grenfell Tower fire in London. The pair are teaming on a Grenfell [working title] doc feature that will air later this year and was revealed last…

Netflix has shared new information and materials on four feature docs premiering on the streamer this year: Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds, Chaos: The Manson Murders, Titan, and Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey. Both newly announced titles, Chaos: The Manson Murders and Pangolin were dated for release on…

Netflix announced on Thursday morning that Eddie, a new documentary on actor and comedian Eddie Murphy, is set to premiere on the service in 2025. The announcement was one of many made today as part of the service’s promotional event, Next on Netflix. They also unveiled a first-look photo from the…

UPDATED with additional film credits. EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has set a March theatrical release date for the Oscar-qualified documentary October 8, a searing examination of antisemitism that erupted after the Hamas terror attack on Israel of October 7, 2023. Wendy Sachs directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau’s memoir-cum-manifesto ‘Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other’ is getting the doc series treatment. The retired TV presenter, celebrity interviewer and former partner of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bestseller has been picked up by…

UPDATED to clarify Never Get Busted is co-created by David Anthony Ngo and Erin Williams-Weir; written and directed by Ngo and produced by Ngo and Williams-weir. EXCLUSIVE: Barry Cooper can safely be called a renegade. He served in law enforcement – as a police officer in Texas, but some might say he…

"I really can"t think of another thing that is as powerful, inspirational and huge as SNL is," Billie Eilish says in Questlove"s Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music documentary. The Summer of Soul director has dived deep into the archives to put some context around the hundreds of musical…

EXCLUSIVE: The Center for Asian American Media announced at Sundance the inaugural cohort of 15 Building Bridges documentarians, whose films will receive support as part of the Building Bridges Documentary Fund. The fund is made possible with a $4.5 million grant from the Doris Duke…

EXCLUSIVE: Animation has been used in innovative ways in a number of notable documentaries – Flee, Waltz with Bashir, Tower, Feels Good Man, Eternal Spring, in portions of Frida, among other films. But there"s never been an animated documentary quite like Endless Cookie. The film directed by…