By MCN Editor editor@moviecitynews.com
Penn Jillette To Host First Critics’ Choice Doc Nods
[PR] – Penn Jillette will host the Inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, to be held Thursday, November 3, 2016 at BRIC, in Brooklyn, New York.
Best-selling author, producer and philanthropist Penn Jillette is one half of the Emmy Award-winning magic duo and Las Vegas headliners Penn & Teller, and is no stranger to documentaries, serving as a producer on critically lauded documentary The Aristocrats and the BAFTA nominated Tim’s Vermeer. Jilette is also a Writers Guild Award winner for the Showtime docu-series, Penn & Teller: BS!, which aired for eight season on the network, and was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards.
“I’m very excited about hosting the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards,” said Jillette, “because the stuff people make up can never be as scary, spooky, wonderful, and weird as the stuff that’s really out there. I love my docs.”
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) also announced D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus as the recipients of the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Awards. Among the dozens of acclaimed documentaries they have made individually and together are Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, The War Room, Startup.com, DeLorean, and Elaine Stritch: At Liberty.
The first round of presenters for the November 3 awards gala have also been announced. They include such leaders in the field of non-fiction storytelling as Emmy award winner Andrew Jarecki (The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst), Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Miss Sharon Jones!), journalist and documentary producer Meredith Vieira, with more to be announced in the coming weeks.
The Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards will be produced by Bob Bain Productions.
About CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS
The Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards are presented in concert with the Critics’ Choice Awards. The Critics’ Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the BFCA and BTJA to honor the finest in cinematic and television achievement. The BFCA is the largest film critics’ organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online critics. BFCA members are the primary source of information for today’s film-going public. BTJA is the collective voice of almost 100 journalists who regularly cover television for TV viewers, radio listeners and online audiences. Historically, the ‘Critics’ Choice Awards’ are the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations.
A&E Networks will again partner with the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) as the exclusive home to the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. Accolades for the finest achievements in both movies and television will be presented Sunday, December 11 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, and will again be seen live on A&E, 8pm-11pm ET. For more information, visit:www.CriticsChoice.com
About CRITICS’ CHOICE DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
The inaugural Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards will honor the finest achievements in documentary features and non-fiction television. The awards are determined by a committee of BFCA and BTJA members with a background and expertise in the documentary field. The debut awards ceremony will take place, November 3, 2016 in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, visit: www.CriticsChoice.com
About BFCA/BTJA
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online critics. The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) is a partner organization to the BFCA and includes TV, radio and Internet journalists who cover television on a regular basis. For more information, visit: www.CriticsChoice.com