Ari Folman Articles

2009 Directors Guild Awards 2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009 2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the [...]

An animated film has won the National Society of Film Critics 2009 Awards. No, not WALL-E, but Ari Folman's anti-war documentary-ish Waltz with Bashir, about Israel's disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It's hard not to believe that current events — the Gaza conflict has been going on since late December — influenced the vote, though war or no war in the Middle East, Waltz with [...]

2008 International Documentary Association Awards 2008 International Documentary Association winners: December 06, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     Feature Documentary (tie) Kassim The Dream Director/Producer: Kief Davidson Producer: Liz Silver Executive Producers: Forest Whitaker, Keisha Whitaker, Joshua Green Believe Media, Urban Landscapes, Monaco Film Hamburg, ARTE/ZDF Enterprises * Man on Wire Director: James Marsh Producer: Simon Chinn Red Box Films, Wall [...]