Netflix Films ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’ And ‘My Octopus Teacher’ Lead Critics’ Choice Documentary Award Winners
Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticDick Johnson Is Dead, Netflix’s personal documentary exploring a daughter’s look into the decline of her aging father, took top honors from the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards for Best Documentary Feature as well as Best Director for Kirsten Johnson.The awards, which were spread out among several winners, saw no single docu dominate, and in fact another Netflix film, My Octopus Teacher, was the only other film to win more than one trophy, taking Best Science/Nature Docu and Best Cinematography.Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution and Gunda had led the nominations with five each but were shut out. Mr.