Netflix has dominated the Oscar documentary race in recent years, winning best feature in both 2020 and 2018. But this year it could be Amazon Studios' Time to shine. Time , directed by Garrett Bradley and produced by Amazon in partnership with Concordia Studio, enters Oscar season as a favorite, having won prizes from the New York and LA film critics organizations, and nominations from early awards shows, including the Critics' Choice Documentary Awards. Bradley's film tells the story of Fox Rich, a mother of six who fought tirelessly for the release of her husband who was sentenced to 60 years in prison for armed robbery. It's a case study in the pernicious effect of mass incarceration, and particularly timely, given a societal reckoning with systemic racial injustice. "Fox said to me and Robert [Fox's husband] said to me, 'Our story is the story of 2.3 million other American families and we feel that our story can offer hope,'" Bradley told filmmaker Ava DuVernay during a November Q&A. "I just said, 'I am going to try to translate that cinematically, what hope looks like.'" Amazon's other major hopeful, All In: The Fight for Democracy , places the spotlight on systemic… Read full this story
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