Lucy Walker Articles

Lucy Walker's The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Lucy Walker's The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Rebecca Cammisa's God Is the Bigger Elvis, and Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill's In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution are among eight films still in the running for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Five of those shorts will earn Oscar nominations. The [...]

Lucy Walker, Oscar nominee for Best Documentary (Feature), arrives with Moby (L) for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Lucy Walker was a co-nominee for Waste Land, which lost the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award to Charles Ferguson's Inside Job. Moby was a Grammy nominee in 2002. He composed the music for Waste Land. Photo: Ivan Vejar / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click [...]

Shirley Henderson in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime (top); Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me (bottom) The 57th annual Sydney Film Festival, which kicks off in two days, has announced the complete list of its Official Competition Jury members. British documentary filmmaker Lucy Walker, whose Countdown to Zero was screened at Cannes earlier this year, will be joining jury president [...]

Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone (top); Joel Edgerton in Animal Kingdom (middle); Kate Mara, Josh Radnor in Happythankyoumoreplease (bottom) Debra Granik's Winter’s Bone, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo, David Michod’s Animal Kingdom, and Mads Bruegger’s The Red Chapel were the four top jury prize winners at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone chronicles a teenage girl's difficult passage to full-fledged [...]