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Best Documentary Oscar

Richard Trank (left), filming in Tel Aviv in December 2019. (Courtesy)
November 25, 2025, 5:57 am
Oscar-winning filmmaker moves to Israel and trains his lens on October 7 survivors
Richard Trank, who produced over a dozen films on Jewish and Israeli themes, feels there is ‘a lot I can contribute’ by settling in the Jewish state after decades in Los Angeles
By Amy Spiro
Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of 'No Other Land,' is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba after being detained by the Israeli army following an alleged attack by Jewish settlers, March 25, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)
March 28, 2025, 8:39 am
Jewish filmmakers join call to protect ‘No Other Land’ team after director beaten, arrested
Maya Rudolph, James Schamus among signatories of petition saying treatment of Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal undermines ‘core values vital to democratic societies’
By Grace Gilson
Palestinian children watch as the Israeli Civil Administration demolishes a home in At-Tuwani, a village in Masafer Yatta, on May 7, 2025. (Courtesy of Emily Glick)
March 25, 2025, 10:37 pm
Why US art houses screen Oscar-winning Palestinian doc that mainstream theaters shun
Despite winning an Academy Award, ‘No Other Land’ is seldom seen in commercial cinemas. In many small theaters, showings are regularly full, audiences eager and reviews positive
By Rich Tenorio
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is interviewed on local news station WLPG News 10, in a segment uploaded to YouTube on November 3, 2024. (Screenshot)
March 20, 2025, 12:03 pm
Miami Beach mayor retracts effort to evict theater for showing ‘No Other Land’
Mayor Steven Meiner, who called documentary about Israel razing Palestinian village ‘antisemitic,’ faces swift backlash for suggesting revoking local theater’s lease for showing it
By Grace Gilson
Eli Sharabi is interviewed on Channel 12's 'Uvda' program, in a segment aired on February 27, 2025. (Screenshot: Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 3, 2025, 2:36 pm
Daily Briefing March 3: Day 514 – Freed hostage Eli Sharabi is all business with PM
Zman Yisrael founding editor Biranit Goren discusses the deadly Haifa terror attack, a former hostage’s strength, and the Oscar that went to Israeli-Palestinian film ‘No Other Land’
By Jessica Steinberg and Biranit Goren
Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accept the award for best documentary feature film for 'No Other Land,' during the Oscars on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)
March 3, 2025, 5:21 am
‘No Other Land,’ about Israel razing Palestinian village, wins best documentary Oscar
Two of film’s four co-directors, an Israeli and a Palestinian, use acceptance speeches to call for Palestinian rights; Israeli Yuval Avraham also calls for release of hostages
By Ben Sales
Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, January 12, 2009, from "The Bibi Files." (Jigsaw Pictures)
December 18, 2024, 12:39 am
‘The Bibi Files’ makes Academy Awards shortlist for best documentary
Film is one of several Israel-related movies to advance to next round of voting, including Norwegian-Palestinian documentary ‘No Other Land’ about West Bank settler violence
By Jessica Steinberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
From 'Mrs. G.' a documentary being shown at the 2019 Docaviv about Lea Gottlieb, the designer and founder of Gottex Swimsuits (Courtesy DocAviv)
May 22, 2019, 1:48 pm
Variety is in the spotlight at Docaviv, Tel Aviv’s annual film fest
130 documentaries to be screened at the event, including two competitions of top Israeli offerings
By Jessica Steinberg
Joe Feingold and Brianna Perez in the Oscar-nominated short documentary 'Joe's Violin.' (Screenshot via JTA)
February 11, 2017, 3:32 am
Try not to cry during this Oscar-nominated film about a survivor and his violin
The short documentary by former Daily Show co-executive producer Kahane Cooperman is not specifically a Holocaust film, but about ‘human connection and hope’
By Curt Schleier
'Chasing Asylum' addresses the issues facing refugees who fled to Australia and the secretive camps established in 2013 to hold them offshore in Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. (Screenshot, courtesy)
July 15, 2016, 6:01 am
Oscar-winning filmmaker exposes the dark underbelly of Australia’s refugee policies
Daughter of Holocaust survivors Eva Orner uncovers a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions in documentary ‘Chasing Asylum’
By Ori Golan
A still from 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' (Courtesy: HBO Documentary Films)
February 27, 2016, 3:58 am
Will ‘Lanzmann’ finally win an Academy Award?
An interview with Adam Benzine, the young first-time director whose award-winning take on the famed veteran filmmaker is up for an Oscar on Sunday
By Lisa Klug
Filmmaker Adam Benzine, left, and acclaimed documentarian Claude Lanzmann in 2013. (Jet Black Iris America via JTA)
February 26, 2016, 3:25 am
Oscars feature shorts on Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah,’ Palestinian nuns
Palestinian filmmaker explores humorous clash of Jewish, Arab commitments; second film looks at documenting the Holocaust
By Tom Tugend
Evgeny Afineevsky, second from right, in Kiev's Maidan Square in 2013. (Courtesy of Evgeny Afineevsky)
February 25, 2016, 6:08 am
Expat Israeli director takes Ukraine revolution to the Oscars
The Russian-born IDF veteran says he tried to focus on the unity achieved at Maidan — a lesson he hopes will be learned in Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The late Amy Winehouse is the subject of Asif Kapadia's emotional documentary "Amy." (Mark Okoh, Camera Press)
December 2, 2015, 9:37 pm
Amy Winehouse documentary named semifinalist for Oscar
Jewish filmmakers Davis Guggenheim and Joshua Oppenheimer also make cut, with biopic on Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzu
By JTA
Malik Bendjelloul at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards, JW Marriott, Los Angeles, CA. (Photo credit: Malik Bendjelloul image via Shuttershock.)
May 14, 2014, 4:18 am
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director dies at 36 
No foul play suspected in death of Malik Bendjelloul, who won 2013 Oscar for film on American singer Sixto Rodriguez
By AP
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