The Hollywood Reporter

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Has Parasite Ushered in a Golden Age of Odd? • Bong Joon Ho’s 2020 Oscar winner has paved the way for more adventurous (and downright weird) entries in the international feature category, long the home of earnest message movies and staid historical dramas

A Bumper Crop of Docs and Subtitled Fare • Competition is intense in the nonfiction and international film feature categories. Academy voters will be bleary-eyed as they stream the contenders vying for spots on the respective shortlists, to be announced Feb. 9

Six-Decade Sentence, 20-Year Crusade, 100 Hours of Home Vids • As the editor on Garrett Bradley’s award-winning Time, Gabriel Rhodes wove together the home movies of a woman fighting for her husband’s release with 70 hours of new material to create an inspirational testament

Sophia Loren’s Life Ahead (and Before) • Returning to the screen for her first feature film in over a decade — Netflix’s The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti — Oscar winner Sophia Loren reflects on a legendary career in cinema

5 Essential Sophia Loren Films • Brush up on your knowledge of the Italian legend’s work on both sides of the Atlantic

Alex Gibney on the ‘Willful Denial’ That Motivated Totally Under Control • The Oscar-winning documentarian adds to his prolific résumé a portrait of the Trump administration’s bungled response to COVID-19

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look back at the political and social issues that defined 2020 as Hollywood heads into the awards race

THE MAKING OF Collective • The documentary, Romania’s submission for best international feature, follows a team of investigative journalists as they uncover government corruption and public health care fraud following a deadly fire

‘Building in the Dark’: A Conversation About Incarceration • In a year that put a spotlight on Black Lives Matter and prison reform, directors Garrett Bradley (Time) and Tommy Oliver (40 Years a Prisoner) speak candidly about their documentaries and the struggles of imprisoned people in 2020

‘It’s Engendering Real Wave of Empathy for LGBTQ Russians’ • Oscar nominee David France’s startling depiction of the courageous effort to save Chechnya’s queer community from state-sanctioned persecution was denounced by the government and went viral: ‘People were going wild’

The View of a Kill • Assassins director Ryan White explains the cloak-and-dagger-style process of obtaining CCTV footage of Kim Jong-nam’s murder

How to Persuade Sealed-Tight Sources to Safely Open Up • Oscar-winning director Bryan Fogel describes the process and commitment behind his explosive documentary about the 2018 murder of The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi: ‘This was not something that I was going to walk away from’

Living History in Real Time • Directors of these feature documentaries tapped into the instances, big and small, that define the stories of humanity worldwide, allowing audiences to reflect together and learn more about less familiar narratives

COVID-19 and the Caregiver Burden • A doctor — and doc-short filmmaker — explains how the pandemic has created solutions for both patients and producers

The Short Cuts • These bite-sized documentaries paint full pictures of stories about joy, loss and discovery

AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE TOP CONTENDERS • These 15 films from across the globe — which tell stories of struggle, crisis and celebration from a variety of cultural perspectives — represent the frontrunners in the race formerly known as foreign-language...