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“Amy” “The Hunting Ground,” “The Look of Silence,” “Meru” and “Something Better to Come” have been nominated by the Producers Guild of America as the best documentaries of 2015, the PGA announced on Monday.
The first four of those films are among the highest profile docs released in the last year, with “Amy” and “The Look of Silence” scoring nominations from the two leading bodies that award non-fiction filmmaking, the International Documentary Association and the Cinema Eye Honors.
“Something Better to Come” is the surprise of the group, a film by Hanna Polak about a young girl who lives in a huge garbage dump in Russia, less than 15 miles from the Kremlin.
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Of the others, “Amy” is Asif Kapadia’s look at the turbulent life and tragic death of singer Amy Winehouse, which premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival. “The Hunting Ground,” which debuted at Sundance in January, is Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s examination of rape on college campuses. “The Look of Silence” is a companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer‘s Oscar-nominated “The Act of Killing,” about the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s. And “Meru” is Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s chronicle of the first ascent of a dangerous peak in the Himalayas.
The winners will be announced at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, Jan. 23 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
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"The Meddler" - Actress Susan Sarandon
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"February" - Actress Kiernan Shipka
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"February" - Actress Lucy Boynton
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"Truth" - Actress Elisabeth Moss
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"I Smile Back" - Actress Sarah Silverman
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"I Smile Back" - Writer Paige Dylan, Writer Amy Koppelman, Director Adam Salky, Actress Sarah Silverman
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"Colonia" - Director Florian Gallenberger, Actor Michael Nyqvist, Actor Daniel Brühl, Producer Benjamin Herrmann
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"Colonia" - Actor Daniel Brühl
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"I Saw the Light" - Actress Elizabeth Olsen
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"Miss You Already" - Director Catherine Hardwicke / Actress Toni Collette
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"Son of Saul" - Actor Geza Röhrig / Director and Writer László Nemes
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"Eye in the Sky" - Actor Barkhad Abdi / Director Gavin Hood and actor Barkhad Abdi
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"Into the Forest" - Director Patricia Rozema
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"Septembers of Shiraz" - Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo / "February" - Director and writer Oz Perkins
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"The Program" - Actor Ben Foster
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"The Program" - Director Stephen Frears
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"Desierto" - Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan / Director Jonás Cuarón
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"I Saw the Light" - Director Marc Abraham
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"The Girl in the Photographs" - Actor Kal Penn, Actress Claudia Lee, Actor Luke Baines, Actress Miranda Rae Mayo
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"The Girl in the Photographs" - Actor Luke Baines / Actress Miranda Rae Mayo
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"Colonia" - Director Florian Gallenberger
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"Colonia" - Actor Michael Nyqvist
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"Being Charlie" - Actor Nick Robinson
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"The Girl in the Photographs" - Actress Claudia Lee / Director Nick Simon
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"The Meddler" - Director Lorene Scafaria
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"The Meddler" - Actor J.K. Simmons
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"I Smile Back" - Director Adam Salky / Writer Amy Koppelman
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