Louie Psihoyos Articles

Nominee credits for Best Documentary Feature nominee The Cove have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows: The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens As per the Academy’s press release, "rules for the documentary feature category state that a maximum of two persons may be designated as nominees, one of whom must [...]

The Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Directors Guild Award for narrative feature. The Iraq War drama can now be officially be considered the front runner in the Oscar race: last week, it won the Producers Guild Award as well. It has also won most film critics’ awards to date. Bigelow’s fellow nominees were Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Lee [...]

Following James Cameron’s best director upset at the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild of America one-upped the Hollywood Foreign Press Association by choosing not the blockbuster Avatar, but Kathryn Bigelow’s independently made Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker (above, top photo) as the best film (or best producers) of the year. Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal, Nicholas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro are the film’s credited producers. [...]

Louie Psihoyos‘ The Cove (above), about the annual slaughter of dolphins at a small Japanese village, has thus far been the various US critics groups’ favorite documentary. The runner-up is Sacha Gervasi’s Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which has been referred to as This Is Spinal Tap for real. (However, there have been accusations that Anvil! isn’t technically a "documentary" as its chronology is supposed [...]